The quote I like best is: "What do you call 'Alternative Medicine' that works?" "Medicine"
Re:Got to say, it creeps me out.
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Is it worse than not having sex with ugly girls because you might make an ugly child?:-)
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Babies are people. An embryo is not. A petri dish full of human cells on the way to becoming a baby can't suffer and therefore doesn't deserve the protections we afford to animals and people who can suffer.
Whereas, the scientists who doubt the existence of god would be inclined to believe (given good evidence rather than one man's subjective experience:-) The believers (no matter what stripe) would, assuming a mismatch between the kind of god they've been told to expect and the one that shows up would continue to disregard the evidence.
For most believers, God himself could come down from on high and bitchslap them with the truth about the universe and what he/she/it really intended for them, and the'd _still_ keep believing what they are told to believe on Sunday.
If you setup your Raid block size and your Filesystem block size appropriately, you won't have to read-before-write, at least not very often. Setting up RAIDFrame on NetBSD, with a 4-drive raid-5 setup, performance was dismal because every write was a partial write (3 data disks meant that it was impossible for the FS block size to match or be an even multiple of the Raid block size). Going to 3 drives or 5 drives performance increased about 8-10 times.
Well, you could click twice more, once on this (in the linked PR) http://wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=576 and then on the "Specifications" tab (I hate web 2.0 shit like this where you can't properly link to content).
For comparison, here are the number for the 1TB (32MB cache) Current Requirements
Power Dissipation
Read/Write 5.4 Watts
Idle 2.8 Watts
Standby 0.40 Watts
Sleep 0.40 Watts
I don't understand why Standby/Sleep power use more than doubled... As for the Active, I assume that's due to spinning 2x the platters and added processing power to be able to process the data coming off those platters 2x the speed.
That's a horrible idea. If you do that, there's a window where you have no RAID protection of changes to the filesystem. If you really want to safeguard that data, you need 4 drives. 2 in a RAID mirror, and then 2 more so you can be sure that all your data isn't at the same location, and you can keep your mirror of new data.
I wonder, given that we had two bombs that we were pretty sure would work, if we had dropped the first just off Tokyo (ok, not "just", but within sight, but far enough away to spare most of the population) on a lightly populated island or something, if Japan would have surrendered, or was destroying a city or two necessary?
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Evolution is a fact. The neo-darwin synthesis is a theory which explains some of why organisms have evolved the way they have.
Well, there are quite a few doctors who deny the fact of evolution...
The quote I like best is: "What do you call 'Alternative Medicine' that works?" "Medicine"
Is it worse than not having sex with ugly girls because you might make an ugly child? :-)
Babies are people. An embryo is not. A petri dish full of human cells on the way to becoming a baby can't suffer and therefore doesn't deserve the protections we afford to animals and people who can suffer.
I believe Apple's warranty says they'll replace the battery if it's below 70% of original capacity within the warranty time frame.
Welcome to the post FauxNews world, where questions like:
Obama a Muslim?
Obama a Socialist?
George W. Bush Great President or Greatest President?
Are the height of journalistic integrity!
Any bacterial infection for which we've got an effective antibiotic.
90210 probably gets more respect...
And the tsunami? And tornados and hurricanes? Do they have free will that your god can't infringe?
My thought was, the picture doesn't prove anything about what was in the pipe...
Oddly, no. :-)
I'm a developer, but those are my test machines. Not sure why they're named that way.
qa1
qa6
qa27
qa51
qa174
qa175
Yes, those are real machine names for machines I'm working on right now...
Whereas, the scientists who doubt the existence of god would be inclined to believe (given good evidence rather than one man's subjective experience :-) The believers (no matter what stripe) would, assuming a mismatch between the kind of god they've been told to expect and the one that shows up would continue to disregard the evidence.
It didn't seem to help protect the passport when I put the passport in the sleeve, then the sleeve & passport together in the microwave...
For most believers, God himself could come down from on high and bitchslap them with the truth about the universe and what he/she/it really intended for them, and the'd _still_ keep believing what they are told to believe on Sunday.
I like anti-social networking, like in the SAW series of movies...
I hope the don't fuck the "Forever War" like they did Starship Troopers. I swear, they turned the moral/political stuff in that book 180 degrees...
No, the cache is 32MB on both the drives for which I was quoting specs.
If you setup your Raid block size and your Filesystem block size appropriately, you won't have to read-before-write, at least not very often. Setting up RAIDFrame on NetBSD, with a 4-drive raid-5 setup, performance was dismal because every write was a partial write (3 data disks meant that it was impossible for the FS block size to match or be an even multiple of the Raid block size). Going to 3 drives or 5 drives performance increased about 8-10 times.
Well, you could click twice more, once on this (in the linked PR) http://wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=576 and then on the "Specifications" tab (I hate web 2.0 shit like this where you can't properly link to content).
Power Dissipation
Read/Write 7.4 Watts
Idle 4.0 Watts
Standby 0.97 Watts
Sleep 0.97 Watts
For comparison, here are the number for the 1TB (32MB cache)
Current Requirements
Power Dissipation
Read/Write 5.4 Watts
Idle 2.8 Watts
Standby 0.40 Watts
Sleep 0.40 Watts
I don't understand why Standby/Sleep power use more than doubled... As for the Active, I assume that's due to spinning 2x the platters and added processing power to be able to process the data coming off those platters 2x the speed.
Huh, I thought Ki was 1024, you know 2^10... learn something new every day...
That's a horrible idea. If you do that, there's a window where you have no RAID protection of changes to the filesystem. If you really want to safeguard that data, you need 4 drives. 2 in a RAID mirror, and then 2 more so you can be sure that all your data isn't at the same location, and you can keep your mirror of new data.
I wonder, given that we had two bombs that we were pretty sure would work, if we had dropped the first just off Tokyo (ok, not "just", but within sight, but far enough away to spare most of the population) on a lightly populated island or something, if Japan would have surrendered, or was destroying a city or two necessary?
Regardless, your points all still stand.
Or in the photovoltaic panels on the roof of the garage you park your car in...