Ditto, I went from 20/1050 and 20/950 to 20/20 in both, if my eyes aren't dry almost 20/10. But I have chronic dry eyes sadly, in any case I'm absolutely ecstatic with my results.
Nope, otherwise all those 'how-to' books would need to print special exceptions at the front that they don't own anything you make following their directions. If it worked the way you think they'd jump straight to $PROFIT! by just suing their readers for copyright infringement when they make that doghouse on page 53.
A signed, sealed, dated, and notarized item not standing up in court would be a really really crappy lawyer. The whole point of notarization is to legally document that something occurred. If it isn't valid then what the hell is the purpose of the entire profession?
I won't argue it being brave, but its sad that he had to do it alone and in such a violent manner. Would it not have been better if he could legally have someone help him end his life so that he could have thrown one last 'going away' party for his family and friends. Tell them goodbye and then peacefully (and less messily) check out?
Hmm, perhaps I has misunderstood something I had read. My understanding was that while she was seeing someone it was due to another concerned adult, not actively initiated and supported by her parents.
I agree and disagree. I agree on the stoning part but that's my personal opinion of her being a cuntbag, I would also have her parents stoned right along side her. Where I mainly disagree with you is that it should be legislated. There are enough laws in place to cover what she did without creating new ones that have far reaching effects. I also don't hear enough people who want her condemed pushing to have her parents right along side her. Those people are the most likely the ones responsible for their childs suicide if the girl herself isn't. Either the girl is responsible for her own death (the stance I keep) or her parents and Lori Drew are (the stance people who disagree with me should keep if they want to remain logical). Lori Drew harassed her causing her emotional distress, that's unfortunate and shows what a total shtibag she is. But humans bear the responsibility of dealing with that sort of thing, life isn't love and unicorns but stress and pain. Parents should be there for their child to help them get through those tough times, hers weren't and ignored everything telling them they should be helping her, child negligence. Neglect coupled with not having the tools to be able to handle that sort of thing is what lead to her death, Lori Drew just gave the final push, her parents are the ones who put her on the cliff naked and alone.
Agreed, but in this particular case the array gets about 230MB/sec writing with compression on and a gigabit nic can only push ~120MB/sec. So my limitation isn't the array itself and I was trying to get the max space possible.
Space is more important than that. There will always be dissidents and those folks need a place to go. One of the reasons the US grew to such power was we were the release valve for so many other countries. Anyone unhappy with their homeland could go to the 'new world' and if they didn't like how things went there they could just 'go west' until they didn't have to even see another settler much less a government agent. Sadly that is gone in todays world. There is no where for those of us who disagree with how things are, no where for us to go and live without having someone tell us what to do. All the land is taken, it may not be in use but someone has claimed it and if you build it into a viable home they'll come and tell you that at gunpoint. This is why I consider space so vitally important. A one world government is meaningless in comparison to that sort of freedom. Even if you personally don't take it up you'll benefit that those who strongly disagree with how things are done since they can just leave and go knowing they'll never have to deal with those problems again. Both sides benefit.
As for seeing it in our life times... well... that is why cryonics is a better choice than being buried in the ground for worms or burned to ash... there is at least a chance. Not like you can take your money with you when you die anyways, the kids should have paid attention on how to make their own fortune and not rely on inheritance, I haven't, neither did my dad.
Good point, although I use 1024k just out of habit since when doing read/write tests it makes it easy as my count is also how large in megs my test file will be. Just pure laziness:-) Thanks for the interesting tidbit on the flash drives.
Knowing that I'm being lied to when sold a drive labeled as 1TB doesn't change the fact I'm being lied to. I don't have an alternative brand to go to, they all use this false counting system. So yes I'm aware that I never "lost" anything... but if you can pull back from being a grammer nazi for a second you'll see that isn't the point.
That 10% gets bigger and bigger. It's not about "well just buy the next size up". When you start working with a 16/20/24/32/48 sized drive array made up of the largest available drives on the market that 10% can be pretty damn huge.
Good for you that you'll never fill up a single TB drive. My 20x1TB WD RE3 Raidz2 file/backup server registers a total space of just a touch over 17TB and that annoys the hell out of me. I lost an entire TB because the drive makers follow marketing jargon instead of the proper method. This is server grade hardware and they still go under consumer counting. I can understand if they want to lie to grandma and grandpa but we're techs working with this like it was a part of our own flesh, we know when we're being screwed. If there was a maker who didn't lie I'd have a choice but it seems they're all in on it.
Yeah that is weird. I regularly kill drives with bs=1024k count=1 while its mounted and live. That obliterates the drive and you went even more extreme than that. I think your idea of a specialized chip emulating the cdrom may be accurate. Out of curiosity what is the model of the stick? Something that persistent is annoying in your case but I've a few friends/family that it'd be handy to have something "that just won't die":-)
Not sure where your getting your info that a GUI is an "absolutely must have" item. It's been years since I used RHEL but it was a CLI interface when I used it and I use CentOS daily with a CLI interface. Debian based distros may be what you find to be the best tool but I can't stand it. If I need a linux distro I use CentOS for its consistency and reliability otherwise I'll use FreeBSD for the same reason. Debian, with its tendency to change things for the sake of changing things has no place in my arsenal unless a client requires it.
I almost had a heart attack when you said "VMWare Parallels", for a moment I thought that Parallels/SWSoft bought VMWare and almost curled into a ball and cried. To me Parallels/SWSoft are one of the most horrible and horrendous destroyers of web products out there. Buy a company, fire everyone, bury the project, rinse and repeat until no competition exists. If they can't bury a project increase the costs and have ludicrous licensing schemes instead. They must have gone to the same school of business as the worst Microsoft execs. I truly and utterly loath them and have boycotted all their commercial products, sadly OpenVZ just rocks too much for me to abandon it.
But back on point, I believe you meant VMWare Fusion.
The possibility of the fear your having actually becoming reality is pretty unlikely. Most of the companies your afraid of doing those things don't even have their own overseas infrastructure. Just like us smaller shops they rely on international fiber companies who specialize only in fiber... they don't care what data is going over the fiber. The more the better. Anything that limits the amount of data going over is an attack on their business. The real people 'in charge' of the internet, those "corporate masters" your afraid of, WANT you to push useless data, they are on *your* side.
It's your ISP thats being a cheap bastard and wanting to shape/limit speeds, they don't want to invest in their own infrastructure. Why upgrade when you can just get rid of those 'abusive customers' after all.
If you ever get the chance I strongly recommend you take a walk through a carrier hotel, once you see a place like that you'll realize that no one company owns or controls *anything* on the internet, no matter how big or powerful they are. The internet outgrew the USA's control and even oppressive regimes with limited fiber can't control what their citizenry see... it aint happening. If the law passed tomorrow it'd take decades to enforce unless they wanted to just cripple it into in-usability, that's possible on a local scale.
It's annoying. Being a provider who is in transition from IPv4 to IPv6 I can say that people want IPv4 and if that's what the guy who is paying you money wants, that's what you give him. Because if you don't, he goes elsewhere. So really I'm looking forward to IPv4 running out because once my competitors stop handing out huge blocks without question then maybe my customers won't threaten to take their business elsewhere when I mention they need to actually prove they need the addresses before we expand their block. So yes, I hope the IPv4 Deathclock speeds up just a touch.
I remember tracking it back in the day when it was still fresh and the dates weren't that far in the future. The civil war was supposed to start as a grassroots/behind the scenes in 2007 and blatantly obvious by late 2008 to even those of us who only follow non-tech/science news. Anything mentioned 2012-2015 is simply revisionist, confirm via archive.org or I'd say its a modern edit. He never made any hooks to the Mayan calendar from what I recall.
True, but its a step in the right direction. Other companies can fill the niches that VG isn't interested in. If there is money to be made someone will do it once it becomes economical to enter the field. For now we need people/corporations that are willing to throw a lot of money at something that hasn't been proven yet. That is why VG gets so much respect from me, they are paving the road for everyone else to follow. There will still be a place for NASA decades from now, but I hope that the private sector is a viable alternative to what has so far been a purely governmental monopoly.
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Ditto, I went from 20/1050 and 20/950 to 20/20 in both, if my eyes aren't dry almost 20/10. But I have chronic dry eyes sadly, in any case I'm absolutely ecstatic with my results.
That was the first thing I thought of as well. If they can bring a sub-par eye up to normal levels then I can't wait until we can add infravision 60'
Nope, otherwise all those 'how-to' books would need to print special exceptions at the front that they don't own anything you make following their directions. If it worked the way you think they'd jump straight to $PROFIT! by just suing their readers for copyright infringement when they make that doghouse on page 53.
I blame the /.'s formatting ... yeah ... :-)
A signed, sealed, dated, and notarized item not standing up in court would be a really really crappy lawyer. The whole point of notarization is to legally document that something occurred. If it isn't valid then what the hell is the purpose of the entire profession?
Or got certain individuals from the private sector sent up and made it PPV.
Thank you for that, I almost choked to death on Fritos :P
I won't argue it being brave, but its sad that he had to do it alone and in such a violent manner. Would it not have been better if he could legally have someone help him end his life so that he could have thrown one last 'going away' party for his family and friends. Tell them goodbye and then peacefully (and less messily) check out?
Hmm, perhaps I has misunderstood something I had read. My understanding was that while she was seeing someone it was due to another concerned adult, not actively initiated and supported by her parents.
I agree and disagree. I agree on the stoning part but that's my personal opinion of her being a cuntbag, I would also have her parents stoned right along side her. Where I mainly disagree with you is that it should be legislated. There are enough laws in place to cover what she did without creating new ones that have far reaching effects. I also don't hear enough people who want her condemed pushing to have her parents right along side her. Those people are the most likely the ones responsible for their childs suicide if the girl herself isn't. Either the girl is responsible for her own death (the stance I keep) or her parents and Lori Drew are (the stance people who disagree with me should keep if they want to remain logical). Lori Drew harassed her causing her emotional distress, that's unfortunate and shows what a total shtibag she is. But humans bear the responsibility of dealing with that sort of thing, life isn't love and unicorns but stress and pain. Parents should be there for their child to help them get through those tough times, hers weren't and ignored everything telling them they should be helping her, child negligence. Neglect coupled with not having the tools to be able to handle that sort of thing is what lead to her death, Lori Drew just gave the final push, her parents are the ones who put her on the cliff naked and alone.
Agreed, but in this particular case the array gets about 230MB/sec writing with compression on and a gigabit nic can only push ~120MB/sec. So my limitation isn't the array itself and I was trying to get the max space possible.
Space is more important than that. There will always be dissidents and those folks need a place to go. One of the reasons the US grew to such power was we were the release valve for so many other countries. Anyone unhappy with their homeland could go to the 'new world' and if they didn't like how things went there they could just 'go west' until they didn't have to even see another settler much less a government agent. Sadly that is gone in todays world. There is no where for those of us who disagree with how things are, no where for us to go and live without having someone tell us what to do. All the land is taken, it may not be in use but someone has claimed it and if you build it into a viable home they'll come and tell you that at gunpoint. This is why I consider space so vitally important. A one world government is meaningless in comparison to that sort of freedom. Even if you personally don't take it up you'll benefit that those who strongly disagree with how things are done since they can just leave and go knowing they'll never have to deal with those problems again. Both sides benefit.
... that is why cryonics is a better choice than being buried in the ground for worms or burned to ash... there is at least a chance. Not like you can take your money with you when you die anyways, the kids should have paid attention on how to make their own fortune and not rely on inheritance, I haven't, neither did my dad.
As for seeing it in our life times... well
Good point, although I use 1024k just out of habit since when doing read/write tests it makes it easy as my count is also how large in megs my test file will be. Just pure laziness :-) Thanks for the interesting tidbit on the flash drives.
Knowing that I'm being lied to when sold a drive labeled as 1TB doesn't change the fact I'm being lied to. I don't have an alternative brand to go to, they all use this false counting system. So yes I'm aware that I never "lost" anything ... but if you can pull back from being a grammer nazi for a second you'll see that isn't the point.
That 10% gets bigger and bigger. It's not about "well just buy the next size up". When you start working with a 16/20/24/32/48 sized drive array made up of the largest available drives on the market that 10% can be pretty damn huge.
Good for you that you'll never fill up a single TB drive. My 20x1TB WD RE3 Raidz2 file/backup server registers a total space of just a touch over 17TB and that annoys the hell out of me. I lost an entire TB because the drive makers follow marketing jargon instead of the proper method. This is server grade hardware and they still go under consumer counting. I can understand if they want to lie to grandma and grandpa but we're techs working with this like it was a part of our own flesh, we know when we're being screwed. If there was a maker who didn't lie I'd have a choice but it seems they're all in on it.
Yeah that is weird. I regularly kill drives with bs=1024k count=1 while its mounted and live. That obliterates the drive and you went even more extreme than that. I think your idea of a specialized chip emulating the cdrom may be accurate. Out of curiosity what is the model of the stick? Something that persistent is annoying in your case but I've a few friends/family that it'd be handy to have something "that just won't die" :-)
Not sure where your getting your info that a GUI is an "absolutely must have" item. It's been years since I used RHEL but it was a CLI interface when I used it and I use CentOS daily with a CLI interface. Debian based distros may be what you find to be the best tool but I can't stand it. If I need a linux distro I use CentOS for its consistency and reliability otherwise I'll use FreeBSD for the same reason. Debian, with its tendency to change things for the sake of changing things has no place in my arsenal unless a client requires it.
Just curious you say sdXX ... have you tried sdX? If you did only try sdXX that can explain why it wont die, your skipping the section it lives in.
I almost had a heart attack when you said "VMWare Parallels", for a moment I thought that Parallels/SWSoft bought VMWare and almost curled into a ball and cried. To me Parallels/SWSoft are one of the most horrible and horrendous destroyers of web products out there. Buy a company, fire everyone, bury the project, rinse and repeat until no competition exists. If they can't bury a project increase the costs and have ludicrous licensing schemes instead. They must have gone to the same school of business as the worst Microsoft execs. I truly and utterly loath them and have boycotted all their commercial products, sadly OpenVZ just rocks too much for me to abandon it.
But back on point, I believe you meant VMWare Fusion.
The possibility of the fear your having actually becoming reality is pretty unlikely. Most of the companies your afraid of doing those things don't even have their own overseas infrastructure. Just like us smaller shops they rely on international fiber companies who specialize only in fiber... they don't care what data is going over the fiber. The more the better. Anything that limits the amount of data going over is an attack on their business. The real people 'in charge' of the internet, those "corporate masters" your afraid of, WANT you to push useless data, they are on *your* side.
... it aint happening. If the law passed tomorrow it'd take decades to enforce unless they wanted to just cripple it into in-usability, that's possible on a local scale.
It's your ISP thats being a cheap bastard and wanting to shape/limit speeds, they don't want to invest in their own infrastructure. Why upgrade when you can just get rid of those 'abusive customers' after all.
If you ever get the chance I strongly recommend you take a walk through a carrier hotel, once you see a place like that you'll realize that no one company owns or controls *anything* on the internet, no matter how big or powerful they are. The internet outgrew the USA's control and even oppressive regimes with limited fiber can't control what their citizenry see
It's annoying. Being a provider who is in transition from IPv4 to IPv6 I can say that people want IPv4 and if that's what the guy who is paying you money wants, that's what you give him. Because if you don't, he goes elsewhere. So really I'm looking forward to IPv4 running out because once my competitors stop handing out huge blocks without question then maybe my customers won't threaten to take their business elsewhere when I mention they need to actually prove they need the addresses before we expand their block. So yes, I hope the IPv4 Deathclock speeds up just a touch.
I remember tracking it back in the day when it was still fresh and the dates weren't that far in the future. The civil war was supposed to start as a grassroots/behind the scenes in 2007 and blatantly obvious by late 2008 to even those of us who only follow non-tech/science news. Anything mentioned 2012-2015 is simply revisionist, confirm via archive.org or I'd say its a modern edit. He never made any hooks to the Mayan calendar from what I recall.
He's fighting in the civil war we're apparently not having, guess he fixed our timeline.
True, but its a step in the right direction. Other companies can fill the niches that VG isn't interested in. If there is money to be made someone will do it once it becomes economical to enter the field. For now we need people/corporations that are willing to throw a lot of money at something that hasn't been proven yet. That is why VG gets so much respect from me, they are paving the road for everyone else to follow. There will still be a place for NASA decades from now, but I hope that the private sector is a viable alternative to what has so far been a purely governmental monopoly.