Yes, that's what I meant. rdiff-backup *to* a big RAID costing a small fraction of $18k. We were discussing archival/backups - write-once media, no less! - not live servers. I actually have raid5 on web servers, raid0+1 on db servers, those all rdiff-backup to raid1 backup server, and then rdiff-backup off-site across the net to yet another raid1 backup server. Building multi-terabyte raid servers is very cheap nowadays. This method allows for backup restores as quick as it takes to copy the data. The big drawback is the finite amount of space - but it's re-useable and hardrive growth has been robust for several decades.;) Maybe there are legal/ISO requirements for WORM stuff that necessitates wasting so much money, though. There are always trade-offs.:)
Yeah. Getting the deep truth on disk longevity seems very complicated. So I just simplified by comparing the manufacturer's claims against each other. I figured we could deduce from InPhase merely claiming 1/4 the time the cd/dvd-r manufacturers do that they do not think their disks are much better in that regard. I suppose there is a possibility that InPhase is just a lot more honest than the rest.;) But it seems unlikely they have any longevity advantage as it stands.
I was curious as to your claim of "shelf life of like forever" for the InPhase disks, so I checked them out.
50 year media archive life http://www.inphase-technologies.com/products/default.asp?tnn=3
Among the manufacturers that have done testing, there is consensus that, under recommended storage conditions, CD-R, DVD-R, and DVD+R discs should have a life expectancy of 100 to 200 years or more http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub121/sec4.html
Plus InPhase only sells the 300GB version now. Your claim to be able to call up and get the 1.6TB discs must have been made 3 to 4 years in the future since that is when their website says they will make the 3rd generation disks that are 1.6TB.
Plus one of those drives costs $18,000! (and the 300GB disks costs $180). I could build a RAID and replace hard drives every few years and still come out ahead price-wise.
I've often heard of the offered million dollars, but never read more about it. It's interesting that they do a preliminary test and then a formal test; and that, as of yet, no one has even passed the preliminary test phase.;)
Apparently I misspoke since you are the second to take that phrase out of context and misread it that way. I often socialize with co-workers (going out to eat, playing D&D, etc.) since we are a small company with all bright people. I'm the type that actually uses words like "acquaintance" instead of lumping together all the people I ever socialize with as a "friend" which seems to be more popular usage nowadays, so not calling co-workers my friends is not as bad as it sounds.;) I just don't want to go work someplace where managers have read studies like this and decided to try to manipulate the environment to force social bonding among the staff for some alleged gain in productivity.
Not saying hello to people in the workplace would be just as bad as using vulgarity, if not worse.
I know the concept is frowned upon in today's divided red vs blue world where people assume anyone that disagrees with them is an extremist at the opposite end of the spectrum from themselves -- as evidenced by your bizarre assumption that I am an "elitist fuck" -- but perhaps the best approach would be one of moderation. Find a middle ground of professional politeness somewhere between "swearing your fucking head off" and ignoring everyone.
I can tell by your choice of words that you still wet the bed.
Dipshit motherfucker. You make a valid counterpoint. There are certainly people such as yourself that thrive on conflict and provoking people. But those people get jobs as car salesman or stock traders on the floor of the NYSE or they collect disability/leech from family and troll people online all day. They don't become computer programmers and work in quiet environments.:)
If you are not adult enough to brush off those who are so immature that they get offended you need to go back to high school and toughen up a bit.
I don't get offended by people cursing in professional settings. It simply lowers my opinion of them. If you aren't adult enough to control yourself then perhaps *you* should go back to high school and finish maturing.;)
As for cursing in the workplace, I think it hurts the atmosphere. It may make the guy who just got off the phone with a dumb customer feel better to vent, but the dozen people who had to listen to his vehemence have all just had their days worsened a bit and everyone is a bit more on edge. We're human; harsh words and conflict make us feel bad. It's a simple formula. There is not much we can do about that.
That being said, people experiencing bad things together often bond together. I think that is the effect the study is showing.
I prefer having nice quiet, productive days much more than having my annoying primate instincts triggered by making me feel bad so I'll bond with people that aren't my friends.
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Where "this" is defined as the 10 year hoopla. A bid to make us all feel old?;) An idea pushed by the marketing/sales folks?
I don't mean to imply anything sinister by the question, it just seems that the number of times the earth orbited the sun is not a thing we geeks usually care about unless we are doing a solar system simulation or the like.:) p.s. thanks.
Panspermia at least has the possibility of being based on evidence, though, and has testable predictions. e.g. That we'll find life on another planet/comet/asteroid/floating and we can date it to older than 4 billion years( greater than the age of life on earth) or match dna with our most ancient earth-born bacteria. So I wouldn't group it with young earth creationism.
Congratulations. You just reinvented Gardner's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_multiple_intelligences
It's obviously not a complete explanation, but the idea has always made a lot of sense to me. I point out this multiple intelligence theory to people when they inevitably mention how smart I am. I'm the typical INTP geek who scores high on IQ tests, recalls many facts, and troubleshoots problems easily, but it often seems like magic to me when people deduce another person's state of mind from non-verbal or ambiguous verbal cues. Treating other abilities like that as a separate type of intelligence isn't just about political correctness, I think it helps to understand different types of people.
Humans are 98.4% genetically identical to chimpanzees, 80% to rats, 40% to chickens; based on the complete genomic sequencing of these 4 species and a lot of educated guesswork by the folks involved - and big error bars on those estimates.:) (pigs havent' been sequenced yet, so that would entail a lot more guesswork, but obviously they would be closer to rats than chickens since they are mammals so your 40-60 guess isn't that bad (for birds and mammals, at least.) My guess is that those percentages will change quite a bit - especially when we understand more about junk dna - but the relative relations to humans will remain in the same ballpark.
I was going to recommend the same thing. Applying a negative score for funny mods seems to work well because it means more mods have to agree it is funny to bump it above your filter.
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Yes, that's what I meant. rdiff-backup *to* a big RAID costing a small fraction of $18k. We were discussing archival/backups - write-once media, no less! - not live servers. I actually have raid5 on web servers, raid0+1 on db servers, those all rdiff-backup to raid1 backup server, and then rdiff-backup off-site across the net to yet another raid1 backup server. Building multi-terabyte raid servers is very cheap nowadays. This method allows for backup restores as quick as it takes to copy the data. The big drawback is the finite amount of space - but it's re-useable and hardrive growth has been robust for several decades. ;) Maybe there are legal/ISO requirements for WORM stuff that necessitates wasting so much money, though. There are always trade-offs. :)
Yeah. Getting the deep truth on disk longevity seems very complicated. So I just simplified by comparing the manufacturer's claims against each other. I figured we could deduce from InPhase merely claiming 1/4 the time the cd/dvd-r manufacturers do that they do not think their disks are much better in that regard. I suppose there is a possibility that InPhase is just a lot more honest than the rest. ;) But it seems unlikely they have any longevity advantage as it stands.
I must admit that NKS is a bit over my head at the moment, though. So I could be reading something into it not meant.
Plus InPhase only sells the 300GB version now. Your claim to be able to call up and get the 1.6TB discs must have been made 3 to 4 years in the future since that is when their website says they will make the 3rd generation disks that are 1.6TB.
Plus one of those drives costs $18,000! (and the 300GB disks costs $180). I could build a RAID and replace hard drives every few years and still come out ahead price-wise.
The work is already done. :) http://opensecrets.org/
The next step after flat to round has already happened. We now know the earth is an oblate spheroid - meaning it is flatter at the poles. :)
I've often heard of the offered million dollars, but never read more about it. It's interesting that they do a preliminary test and then a formal test; and that, as of yet, no one has even passed the preliminary test phase. ;)
When mentioning the longevity of games, you are remiss to omit Go(Weqi) which is at least 2500 years old and going strong. :)
http://senseis.xmp.net/?HistoryOfGo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(board_game)
(And Chinese Chess(Xiangqi) comes a close second.)
The iliad looks pretty cool. It runs linux, even. :) But it's pricer than a PS3. This german review of it includes a nifty video to get an idea of the refresh rate - and slow boot time.
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.joachim-uhl.de/2007/10/09/review-iliad-2nd-edition-von-irex/&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=5&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3DiLiad%2B2nd%2BEdition%2Breview%2B-homer%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG
Apparently I misspoke since you are the second to take that phrase out of context and misread it that way. I often socialize with co-workers (going out to eat, playing D&D, etc.) since we are a small company with all bright people. I'm the type that actually uses words like "acquaintance" instead of lumping together all the people I ever socialize with as a "friend" which seems to be more popular usage nowadays, so not calling co-workers my friends is not as bad as it sounds. ;) I just don't want to go work someplace where managers have read studies like this and decided to try to manipulate the environment to force social bonding among the staff for some alleged gain in productivity.
Not saying hello to people in the workplace would be just as bad as using vulgarity, if not worse.
I know the concept is frowned upon in today's divided red vs blue world where people assume anyone that disagrees with them is an extremist at the opposite end of the spectrum from themselves -- as evidenced by your bizarre assumption that I am an "elitist fuck" -- but perhaps the best approach would be one of moderation. Find a middle ground of professional politeness somewhere between "swearing your fucking head off" and ignoring everyone.
If you are not adult enough to brush off those who are so immature that they get offended you need to go back to high school and toughen up a bit.
;)
I don't get offended by people cursing in professional settings. It simply lowers my opinion of them. If you aren't adult enough to control yourself then perhaps *you* should go back to high school and finish maturing.
As for cursing in the workplace, I think it hurts the atmosphere. It may make the guy who just got off the phone with a dumb customer feel better to vent, but the dozen people who had to listen to his vehemence have all just had their days worsened a bit and everyone is a bit more on edge. We're human; harsh words and conflict make us feel bad. It's a simple formula. There is not much we can do about that.
That being said, people experiencing bad things together often bond together. I think that is the effect the study is showing.
I prefer having nice quiet, productive days much more than having my annoying primate instincts triggered by making me feel bad so I'll bond with people that aren't my friends.
Thanks, that gave us the correct term to look it up. :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shot_tower
More or less? The draft was written by two U.S. Army officers and very few changes made. You can't get much "more" than that. :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_constitution#Drafting_process
Where "this" is defined as the 10 year hoopla. A bid to make us all feel old? ;) An idea pushed by the marketing/sales folks?
:)
I don't mean to imply anything sinister by the question, it just seems that the number of times the earth orbited the sun is not a thing we geeks usually care about unless we are doing a solar system simulation or the like.
p.s. thanks.
Panspermia at least has the possibility of being based on evidence, though, and has testable predictions. e.g. That we'll find life on another planet/comet/asteroid/floating and we can date it to older than 4 billion years( greater than the age of life on earth) or match dna with our most ancient earth-born bacteria. So I wouldn't group it with young earth creationism.
Congratulations. You just reinvented Gardner's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_multiple_intelligences It's obviously not a complete explanation, but the idea has always made a lot of sense to me. I point out this multiple intelligence theory to people when they inevitably mention how smart I am. I'm the typical INTP geek who scores high on IQ tests, recalls many facts, and troubleshoots problems easily, but it often seems like magic to me when people deduce another person's state of mind from non-verbal or ambiguous verbal cues. Treating other abilities like that as a separate type of intelligence isn't just about political correctness, I think it helps to understand different types of people.
A genetic predisposition - I'd use the stronger word instinct, even - to mimic the creatures that look like you do is a good one to have for survival.
Same here. I bought a cheap virgin mobile pay-by-the-month to last me until then. :)
... or whether to name ourselves the Allied Atheist Alliance or the United Atheist Alliance or the Unified Atheist League. :)
Humans are 98.4% genetically identical to chimpanzees, 80% to rats, 40% to chickens; based on the complete genomic sequencing of these 4 species and a lot of educated guesswork by the folks involved - and big error bars on those estimates. :) (pigs havent' been sequenced yet, so that would entail a lot more guesswork, but obviously they would be closer to rats than chickens since they are mammals so your 40-60 guess isn't that bad (for birds and mammals, at least.) My guess is that those percentages will change quite a bit - especially when we understand more about junk dna - but the relative relations to humans will remain in the same ballpark.
"within 500 million light years of here." which means a hole 1 billion light years across. Which is the size of the hole they've found! ;)
I was going to recommend the same thing. Applying a negative score for funny mods seems to work well because it means more mods have to agree it is funny to bump it above your filter.
Your counterexample would only make sense if that's what I actually said. Making up your own incorrect statements and disproving them is quite silly.