I've been to small claims court. The plaintiff said "He hasn't given me a dime". I said "I have the a copy of the cleared check right here". Guess what? The judge DID NOT CARE that she was lying! In any given small claims case, the judge assumes both sides are lying equally and splits the difference (the judge arbitrarily made me pay about half the amount she was requesting -- really! To this day, I have no idea where he came up with the number.) Which means if you go in there and simply TELL THE TRUTH, you get screwed! This is just my experience, but I believe people almost always lie in small claims court, and sanctions are never even considered -- after all, the participants aren't lawyers.
You've gotta admit, smashing into things in VR is a lot more enjoyable than smashing into things in real life. Or will the next release of NFS require you to spend several hours arguing with police, getting repair estimates, and submitting an insurance claim every time you have an accident?
archiving MP3, I guess not many people have >100GB of MP3s?
I have 70GB of MP3s (over 11,000 songs), all legally ripped from CDs I own. Currently I use a USB hard drive for backup. Would this disk be more or less reliable than a hard drive? I've had problems in the past with DVDs written on one computer being readable on another computer, or even playing correctly in a Sony DVD player.
I volunteered this summer transcribing input for a senate campaign. For many documents, people's handwriting was simply unreadable. Even using context, years of experience with parsing human names, the fact that half of the people were already in our database, and the ability to google for contributor's company names, I still had a number of times where I just had to guess at what people meant. Granted, only about 5% of the input is completely illegible, but if I can't parse it, I certainly can't blame a machine for not being able to parse it.
"Line of sight" = "Won't work in rain, snow, ice, dust, or fog" for the high frequencies this is using. Granted, it's a lot faster and cheaper to install than fiber, but less reliable.
You can also use inductive or capacitive charging. Just park the car over a "grid" on the floor of your garage, and you don't have to remember to plug the damn thing in! (You could do the same thing for your phone and MP3 player if you put it in the exact same place every night.) That being said, I'm convinced plug-in hybrid and not full-time electric is the way to go. I already own 2 hybrids, and I'm ready and willing to buy a plug-in hybrid just as soon as they make one available that I can afford. (I'm anxiously awaiting Aptera availability in my area.) Of course, few people will be buying new cars of any sort until we get off this economic roller-coaster we've been on lately.
Uh, Wednesday night they found the wreckage of the plane with the N number on the tail... still no sign of Fosset's remains, but this must be one hell of an elaborate "hoax"!
If you want to distribute public domain information to as many people as possible and achieve robust storage through massive redundancy, then "cloud computing" is a great idea (think bittorrent). If you want to store your own private data, then storing it on servers that may wind up controlled by your competitors is a stupid idea (do you trust Microsoft with your data). Of course, for the former, all we really need is P2P, not paid-for servers. I think the idea of using a 'net service to store sensitive data is an inherently flawed business model because you will always have better bandwidth and access times to your onsite computers than you will to any service provider.
When good unit tests are in place, then code can be changed at will and the tests will tell automatically you if you broke anything.
Unless there is a bug in the unit test code, or some condition the unit test designer didn't anticipate... oh wait, you said "good unit tests" -- have any of these actually been observed in the wild? I have yet to see a unit test simulate what my 7-year old daughter does best -- clicking wildly all over the place until something crashes.
Now, how about a list of decent graphics cards that will still work with my AGP 8x mother board? A Saphire Radeon HD 3850 was the best I could find; is buying one a mistake? (My GeForce FX 5200 with passive cooling crashes the computer in less than a minute running a Video Card Stability Test, so it needs to be replaced.
My daughter has been playing computer games ever since see was 3. This weekend she was locked in the computer room playing The Sims with Aerosmith Classics blaring on the other computer... in other words, she turned out just like her daddy. Of course, she's only 7... wonder what she will be like when she's a teenager!
The same way ANY forensic evidence is explained to a jury -- you get an expert witness to testify either that the code works or that it doesn't. Are jurists required to have a medical degree to understand the results of an autopsy?
Fine... the revoke his privileges to use the network! I think if I read a user agreement stating "violate this contract and you're going to jail!" I'd basically run screaming in the opposite direction. But that's just me...
Hire him! Put him in charge of security. Once keeping the network running smoothly is his responsibility, he'll not only feel no inclination to harm it, he'll also jealously guard it from anyone else, just to prove his skills are better.
Although the police are required to _have_ a search warrant, they are not required to show it to you. See this article I agree this sucks, but such is the current state of US law.
Uh, it's called a joke... 250GBytes/months is about 96KBytes/second; VoIP probably uses no more than 16KBytes/second. You are correct, streaming uncompressed CD quality audio 24/7 would exceed the bandwidth cap.
Hell, my wife could generate that much traffic in VoIP alone! (Yes, she's one of those people for which 5000 cellular minutes per month is nowhere near enough!)
Slashdot Mirror
I've been to small claims court. The plaintiff said "He hasn't given me a dime". I said "I have the a copy of the cleared check right here". Guess what? The judge DID NOT CARE that she was lying! In any given small claims case, the judge assumes both sides are lying equally and splits the difference (the judge arbitrarily made me pay about half the amount she was requesting -- really! To this day, I have no idea where he came up with the number.) Which means if you go in there and simply TELL THE TRUTH, you get screwed! This is just my experience, but I believe people almost always lie in small claims court, and sanctions are never even considered -- after all, the participants aren't lawyers.
Will launching a DoS attack on all the other competitors be considered cheating?
You've gotta admit, smashing into things in VR is a lot more enjoyable than smashing into things in real life. Or will the next release of NFS require you to spend several hours arguing with police, getting repair estimates, and submitting an insurance claim every time you have an accident?
I'm not exactly sure whose it was, but I'm pretty sure what type of orifice that number was pulled out of...
Cool! So now I can watch a 2-hour movie in 3 minutes!
I have 70GB of MP3s (over 11,000 songs), all legally ripped from CDs I own. Currently I use a USB hard drive for backup. Would this disk be more or less reliable than a hard drive? I've had problems in the past with DVDs written on one computer being readable on another computer, or even playing correctly in a Sony DVD player.
I volunteered this summer transcribing input for a senate campaign. For many documents, people's handwriting was simply unreadable. Even using context, years of experience with parsing human names, the fact that half of the people were already in our database, and the ability to google for contributor's company names, I still had a number of times where I just had to guess at what people meant. Granted, only about 5% of the input is completely illegible, but if I can't parse it, I certainly can't blame a machine for not being able to parse it.
"Line of sight" = "Won't work in rain, snow, ice, dust, or fog" for the high frequencies this is using. Granted, it's a lot faster and cheaper to install than fiber, but less reliable.
You can also use inductive or capacitive charging. Just park the car over a "grid" on the floor of your garage, and you don't have to remember to plug the damn thing in! (You could do the same thing for your phone and MP3 player if you put it in the exact same place every night.) That being said, I'm convinced plug-in hybrid and not full-time electric is the way to go. I already own 2 hybrids, and I'm ready and willing to buy a plug-in hybrid just as soon as they make one available that I can afford. (I'm anxiously awaiting Aptera availability in my area.) Of course, few people will be buying new cars of any sort until we get off this economic roller-coaster we've been on lately.
Uh, Wednesday night they found the wreckage of the plane with the N number on the tail... still no sign of Fosset's remains, but this must be one hell of an elaborate "hoax"!
At first I thought it said Outland MMO... Oh well.
If you want to distribute public domain information to as many people as possible and achieve robust storage through massive redundancy, then "cloud computing" is a great idea (think bittorrent). If you want to store your own private data, then storing it on servers that may wind up controlled by your competitors is a stupid idea (do you trust Microsoft with your data). Of course, for the former, all we really need is P2P, not paid-for servers. I think the idea of using a 'net service to store sensitive data is an inherently flawed business model because you will always have better bandwidth and access times to your onsite computers than you will to any service provider.
I take it you've already installed your 800W computer power supply?
Unless there is a bug in the unit test code, or some condition the unit test designer didn't anticipate... oh wait, you said "good unit tests" -- have any of these actually been observed in the wild? I have yet to see a unit test simulate what my 7-year old daughter does best -- clicking wildly all over the place until something crashes.
Now, how about a list of decent graphics cards that will still work with my AGP 8x mother board? A Saphire Radeon HD 3850 was the best I could find; is buying one a mistake? (My GeForce FX 5200 with passive cooling crashes the computer in less than a minute running a Video Card Stability Test, so it needs to be replaced.
My daughter has been playing computer games ever since see was 3. This weekend she was locked in the computer room playing The Sims with Aerosmith Classics blaring on the other computer... in other words, she turned out just like her daddy. Of course, she's only 7... wonder what she will be like when she's a teenager!
The same way ANY forensic evidence is explained to a jury -- you get an expert witness to testify either that the code works or that it doesn't. Are jurists required to have a medical degree to understand the results of an autopsy?
Fine... the revoke his privileges to use the network! I think if I read a user agreement stating "violate this contract and you're going to jail!" I'd basically run screaming in the opposite direction. But that's just me...
Well, if it works for the Bush administration, shouldn't it work for anyone else too?
Hire him! Put him in charge of security. Once keeping the network running smoothly is his responsibility, he'll not only feel no inclination to harm it, he'll also jealously guard it from anyone else, just to prove his skills are better.
Well, yeah, if they intended to use the information they downloaded as evidence in a civil case, I suppose they would!
Dude, it's a joke... he's referring to the movie "Minority Report".
Although the police are required to _have_ a search warrant, they are not required to show it to you. See this article I agree this sucks, but such is the current state of US law.
Uh, it's called a joke... 250GBytes/months is about 96KBytes/second; VoIP probably uses no more than 16KBytes/second. You are correct, streaming uncompressed CD quality audio 24/7 would exceed the bandwidth cap.
Hell, my wife could generate that much traffic in VoIP alone! (Yes, she's one of those people for which 5000 cellular minutes per month is nowhere near enough!)