You're wrong with your spelling of 'Your wrong with you're spelling...'.
I am highly amused by those who chose to correct other's grammar or spelling, but because he (I assume since this is/. that the poster is in fact, male) cannot distinguish between the use of "your" as a possessive and "you're" as a contraction, he winds up looking like an idiot. Do you have similar problems with "its" and "it's"?
The same should apply to taxis with a single passenger. They should not be allowed to use the party lane unless there are more than one passenger.
I car-pool to work every day, and it pisses me off to no end when single occupant vehicles use the HOV lane, but then, I'm an asshole so I like to report them. The driver doesn't get cited, but he does get a nasty-gram through the mail courtesy of WSP.
I'm sure many pilots would disagree with you about the usefulness of HUDs. The idea is that you can see critical information (speed, remaining fuel, etc) without having to look down at the instrument cluster, which requires that you take your eyes of the road momentarily and refocus your eyes.
I'd be totally in favor of a well designed HUD, but I'm not sure that Microsoft is the right company to provide it (Vista anyone?), and it should/never/ have unnecessary 'features' such as swinging dice...
Why would you want to turn of stability control? The last two cars I have owned have all had ESP programs (granted, the ESP is defeatable if I wanted to take the car to the track), and they have never been intrusive. There are a number of studies that show vehicles, particularly SUVs, have a much lower chance of rolling in a collision if they have stability control.
About 10 years ago, I was in a 100+ MPH head on collision with a drunk driver who was being pursued by the local police. I was driving a Pontiac Fiero, which has about the same number of safety features that your future kit car is likely to have, and the impact basically folded the entire car in on itself. Fortunately the only place inside the cabin that wasn't totally compressed was the driver's footwell and seat, but I still had to be cut out of the car, and had the engine been in the front instead of the rear, I wouldn't be here to write this. Since then, safety features in the cars that I buy is always a major priority; sure they add weight, but my current car has 1 HP per 9 LBS of weight and a full array of air-bags, crumple zones, ESP, all wheel drive, ABS, you name it, and it's not a slouch.
I find it amusing that people don't want these features because it adds weight, and think they are so proficient a driver that that shaving those potentially life-saving pounds will actually result in a perceptable difference to the car's performance. Maybe there are people out their for whom weight savings are critical, but these are the guys buying BMW M3 CSLs and ripping out the back seats in order to get optimal track performance, not becuase it will get them to work 2 seconds faster. Your car's performance will never be a significant factor in the time that it takes to get travel from A-B on most American roads, but your car's safety features may one day save your life.
If the staff at Encyclopedia Britannica had nothing better to do, I'll bet they could find a few problems with the content on Wikipedia. I'm amazed that this is even considered news worthy.
It's inconceivable to me that the Constitution, written as it was at a time when there were no cars, would not provide for federal policing of car jacking . I don't know if you've noticed, but Consitutional Ammendments are fairly difficult to get ratified, and if you think that federal authority should be limited to exactly what the Constitution provides for without consideration for the realities of the system, then I admire the world that you live in.
Car jacking became a federal crime in 1992 (http://www.criminal-law-lawyer-source.com/terms/c arjacking.html) and murder during the commission of a car jacking carries the federal death penalty (http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?scid= 29&did=192).
It should be pretty obvious that the effeciency of a propeller driven bike is way less than a bike driven by it's wheel, particularly one with multiple gear ratios. Just watch the video, the guy is pedalling pretty damn hard for not much speed (maybe he talks about that later in the video, I got bored half way through...)
I guess this proves that just because you can do something doesn't mean that you should.
The Royal Navy's Windows for Warships progam probably counts as both a critical application and one where people's lives are at risk.
e.g.
Prompt: An inbound missile has been detected that could hit your ship (time to impact: 15 seconds). Allow or Deny? User: Clicks Deny. Prompt: Are you sure (time to impact: 13 seconds). Yes or No? User: Clicks Yes. Prompt: Anti-Missile Counter Measures Application has encountered a problem and needs to close - we are sorry for your impending destruction. Send error report to Microsoft? Yes or No.
Not to mention that I'm pretty sure that all the people who donate money to the school for grants, etc., would prefer to see their money actually benefiting eductation rather than funding the university's pissing match with the RIAA. Is copyright violation theft in the same sense as stealing a tangible asset, not really, but should it be illegal, definately. I have no problem at all with U-Dub forwarding these letters to the offending student providing that appropriate processes are followed - the sooner that people learn that their actions have consequences, the better.
More to the point, are they doing anything to reduce the price of avgas..?
Seriously though, the biggest problem with avgas is the huge 'install base', which - if you replace TEL with ethanol which absorbs moisture and can cause rusting of fuel lines, etc - tends to fall out of the sky, rather than break down by the side of the road. Many high performance aviation engines require higher octane gasoline than is available in motor gasoline form, although a number of lower compression engines which were originally certified for 80/87 avgas can obtain a supplemental type certification for 87 octane motor gas (fuel lines, fittings, etc. have to be upgraded). Some airport fueling stations do carry mogas and it has the added benefit of being a bit cheaper.
1. I'm pretty familiar with signature based IDS products - I've been running numerous products including snort for several years. In fact when SourceFire first produced a commercial product, I did an early evaluation deployment into my environment where it trapped so many false positives in the first couple of hours that it took 3 days for the device to clear its database (after disconnecting it from the net).
2. Obviously, signature based IDSs are very prone to false positives, and it takes staff with talent and a lot of time to tune the system to suit the characteristics of the network. In most environments, users simply turn off the most annoying rules, thus losing all visability to attacks on that particular vector.
3. Signature-based IDS devices are generally appalling at detecting attacks over secure channels, SSL, SSH, etc., particularly in high traffic environments.
4. I do believe that the DHS is a bunch of incompetent fools, and I've flown through enough airports in the US with radically different security procedures at each port, observed FEMA's response to the hurricane Katrina, and seen enough reactionary flapping about ridiculous threats (what's the threat color today, sky blue huh, and what does that mean to me as a citizen - how should it affect my behavior?) to have a fair degree of confidence that my belief is correct. That an organization has a large scope of responsibility is not an good indicator of competence. I give you one thing though, they sure have some pretty buildings.
So, do virgins stay virgins in heaven? I mean, once you've had sex with them, they're no longer virgins right... Do you get a new set of virgins at that point? I'm presuming there is only a finite number of virgins in heaven, and probably becoming less everyday since all the good muslims who've died have already got their virgins, and let's face it, who dies a virgin these days (ok, apart from most slashdotters, but seriously, I think the muslims are hoping that the virgins are female...) Religion is way too confusing.
Seems like this would be a better headline. Oh, but of course it would never make./ unless the headline has RIAA in it, doing some imagined injustice. Don't get me wrong, I hate the *AA and everything they stand for, but come on, copyright infringement is illegal, and the police pursuing crime is hardly./-worthy.
Here's the verbiage from the FBI copyright warning. Note that it mentions the following terms:
Unauthorized reproduction: Where the right to copy is not granted to you by the copyright holder or by fair use. Illegal: Criminal law, not civil law applies. Infringement without monetary gain: You don't have to sell it to be guilty.
blah, blah, blah.
"The unauthorized reproduction or distribution of this copyrighted work is illegal. Criminal copyright infringement, including infringement without monetary gain, is investigated by the FBI and is punishable by up to five years in federal prison and a fine of $250,000."
I just did a bunch of perf testing for a new production OLTP storage system at work. Here's the results (along with some obvious points):
RAID 0 - Fastest read/write performance, best disk capacity, zero redundancy. RAID 1 - Read/write limited by low spindle count, maximum 2 disks, capacity is equal to smallest disk, single disk failure tolerant. RAID 5 - Good read, slower write performance due to the calculation of parity, good disk capacity, single disk failure tolerant. In my tests, IO performance peak appears to be around 9 disks, after which through-put drops off significantly. RAID 10 - Good write, better read, throughput scales in a fairly linear manner up to the limits of the controller, disk capacity is 50% of total disk capacity, support multiple failures (providing a failed disk's mirror partner doesn't also fail). My tests showed that an 8 disk RAID 10 set performed better than a 9 disk RAID 5 set with all other configuration settings unchanged.
All of the above was tested with a good quality hardware RAID controller with write-back caching enabled.
So, in summary, if you want a good balance of capacity, performance and fault tolerance, RAID 5 is the way to go - 9 disks appears to be optimal. If you have plenty of disks, I'd go with RAID 10. Of course, I'd be asking myself if I really need the disk performance, or if I just think that I do. Do some performance profiling, look at disk queues, IOPS, etc. to determine if the expense, time and complexity are warranted.
Video & sound over fiber-optic could significantly increase the cost of devices and I'm not sure that commodity items like low-end DVD players (even $80 sets now have HDMI) could support the additional cost. I don't know how accurate the parallel is, but gigabit ethernet over copper is about 10% of the price of gig over fiber (per port).
Most of the features that you're referring to are used by a very small percentage of the home-theater owning population. The Harmony, or Sony, or whatever, remotes will probably provide the right combination of ease of use and functionality for > 95% of users, plus it is much nicer to hold (the MX-900 sort of looks like a Corellian Corvette with buttons on it).
Absolutely - get yourself a good universal remote, like the Harmony 870 which is activity-centric rather than device-centric, and which device you use to control volume become moot. I'm pretty sure though that the circuity in a decent amp is better than that in a TV, so there's a principle at stake here...
The case is VA was a pretty isolated random nutjob killing random people, this doesn't happen every day. In Iraq, it is a series of well coordinated and organized attacks that happen multiple times per day. How can you even begin to draw a parallel?
Interesting point is that the military does not refer to the weapon issues to an infantry soldier as an 'assault rifle'. This is entirely a civilian term intended to invoke fear. The military refers to the weapon as a Personal Weapon or Individual Weapon.
These weapons are designed to throw large quanities of lead in the direction of the enemy with acceptable levels of accuracy. This is necessary in order to supress the enemy while the assault team moves up on the enemy to engage at close range.
I can't imagine any pratical reason for a civilian to own automatic rifle as there are more suitable weapons for just about every civilian application. Don't get me wrong, I'm not advocating for extra gun legislation and I have used 'assault rifles' in a professional capacity, but the unescapable fact is that while most people owning a rifle that fires 600 rpm will never do anyone harm, an unbalanced individual who does get his hands on them can cause a spectacular amount of carnage in no time flat.
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You're wrong with your spelling of 'Your wrong with you're spelling...'.
/. that the poster is in fact, male) cannot distinguish between the use of "your" as a possessive and "you're" as a contraction, he winds up looking like an idiot. Do you have similar problems with "its" and "it's"?
I am highly amused by those who chose to correct other's grammar or spelling, but because he (I assume since this is
The same should apply to taxis with a single passenger. They should not be allowed to use the party lane unless there are more than one passenger.
I car-pool to work every day, and it pisses me off to no end when single occupant vehicles use the HOV lane, but then, I'm an asshole so I like to report them. The driver doesn't get cited, but he does get a nasty-gram through the mail courtesy of WSP.
Technically, a US Billion is a Milliard in the UK, but in 1972 (IIRC) the US definition was adopted.
I'm sure many pilots would disagree with you about the usefulness of HUDs. The idea is that you can see critical information (speed, remaining fuel, etc) without having to look down at the instrument cluster, which requires that you take your eyes of the road momentarily and refocus your eyes.
/never/ have unnecessary 'features' such as swinging dice...
I'd be totally in favor of a well designed HUD, but I'm not sure that Microsoft is the right company to provide it (Vista anyone?), and it should
Why would you want to turn of stability control? The last two cars I have owned have all had ESP programs (granted, the ESP is defeatable if I wanted to take the car to the track), and they have never been intrusive. There are a number of studies that show vehicles, particularly SUVs, have a much lower chance of rolling in a collision if they have stability control.
About 10 years ago, I was in a 100+ MPH head on collision with a drunk driver who was being pursued by the local police. I was driving a Pontiac Fiero, which has about the same number of safety features that your future kit car is likely to have, and the impact basically folded the entire car in on itself. Fortunately the only place inside the cabin that wasn't totally compressed was the driver's footwell and seat, but I still had to be cut out of the car, and had the engine been in the front instead of the rear, I wouldn't be here to write this. Since then, safety features in the cars that I buy is always a major priority; sure they add weight, but my current car has 1 HP per 9 LBS of weight and a full array of air-bags, crumple zones, ESP, all wheel drive, ABS, you name it, and it's not a slouch.
I find it amusing that people don't want these features because it adds weight, and think they are so proficient a driver that that shaving those potentially life-saving pounds will actually result in a perceptable difference to the car's performance. Maybe there are people out their for whom weight savings are critical, but these are the guys buying BMW M3 CSLs and ripping out the back seats in order to get optimal track performance, not becuase it will get them to work 2 seconds faster. Your car's performance will never be a significant factor in the time that it takes to get travel from A-B on most American roads, but your car's safety features may one day save your life.
If the staff at Encyclopedia Britannica had nothing better to do, I'll bet they could find a few problems with the content on Wikipedia. I'm amazed that this is even considered news worthy.
Ouch - zing!
It's inconceivable to me that the Constitution, written as it was at a time when there were no cars, would not provide for federal policing of car jacking . I don't know if you've noticed, but Consitutional Ammendments are fairly difficult to get ratified, and if you think that federal authority should be limited to exactly what the Constitution provides for without consideration for the realities of the system, then I admire the world that you live in.
Car jacking became a federal crime in 1992 (http://www.criminal-law-lawyer-source.com/terms/c arjacking.html) and murder during the commission of a car jacking carries the federal death penalty (http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?scid= 29&did=192).
It should be pretty obvious that the effeciency of a propeller driven bike is way less than a bike driven by it's wheel, particularly one with multiple gear ratios. Just watch the video, the guy is pedalling pretty damn hard for not much speed (maybe he talks about that later in the video, I got bored half way through...)
I guess this proves that just because you can do something doesn't mean that you should.
The Royal Navy's Windows for Warships progam probably counts as both a critical application and one where people's lives are at risk.
e.g.
Prompt: An inbound missile has been detected that could hit your ship (time to impact: 15 seconds). Allow or Deny?
User: Clicks Deny.
Prompt: Are you sure (time to impact: 13 seconds). Yes or No?
User: Clicks Yes.
Prompt: Anti-Missile Counter Measures Application has encountered a problem and needs to close - we are sorry for your impending destruction. Send error report to Microsoft? Yes or No.
Not to mention that I'm pretty sure that all the people who donate money to the school for grants, etc., would prefer to see their money actually benefiting eductation rather than funding the university's pissing match with the RIAA. Is copyright violation theft in the same sense as stealing a tangible asset, not really, but should it be illegal, definately. I have no problem at all with U-Dub forwarding these letters to the offending student providing that appropriate processes are followed - the sooner that people learn that their actions have consequences, the better.
More to the point, are they doing anything to reduce the price of avgas..?
Seriously though, the biggest problem with avgas is the huge 'install base', which - if you replace TEL with ethanol which absorbs moisture and can cause rusting of fuel lines, etc - tends to fall out of the sky, rather than break down by the side of the road.
Many high performance aviation engines require higher octane gasoline than is available in motor gasoline form, although a number of lower compression engines which were originally certified for 80/87 avgas can obtain a supplemental type certification for 87 octane motor gas (fuel lines, fittings, etc. have to be upgraded). Some airport fueling stations do carry mogas and it has the added benefit of being a bit cheaper.
Where to begin?
1. I'm pretty familiar with signature based IDS products - I've been running numerous products including snort for several years. In fact when SourceFire first produced a commercial product, I did an early evaluation deployment into my environment where it trapped so many false positives in the first couple of hours that it took 3 days for the device to clear its database (after disconnecting it from the net).
2. Obviously, signature based IDSs are very prone to false positives, and it takes staff with talent and a lot of time to tune the system to suit the characteristics of the network. In most environments, users simply turn off the most annoying rules, thus losing all visability to attacks on that particular vector.
3. Signature-based IDS devices are generally appalling at detecting attacks over secure channels, SSL, SSH, etc., particularly in high traffic environments.
4. I do believe that the DHS is a bunch of incompetent fools, and I've flown through enough airports in the US with radically different security procedures at each port, observed FEMA's response to the hurricane Katrina, and seen enough reactionary flapping about ridiculous threats (what's the threat color today, sky blue huh, and what does that mean to me as a citizen - how should it affect my behavior?) to have a fair degree of confidence that my belief is correct. That an organization has a large scope of responsibility is not an good indicator of competence. I give you one thing though, they sure have some pretty buildings.
The problem is that 800 is the number they know about. What's the real number?
So, do virgins stay virgins in heaven? I mean, once you've had sex with them, they're no longer virgins right... Do you get a new set of virgins at that point? I'm presuming there is only a finite number of virgins in heaven, and probably becoming less everyday since all the good muslims who've died have already got their virgins, and let's face it, who dies a virgin these days (ok, apart from most slashdotters, but seriously, I think the muslims are hoping that the virgins are female...) Religion is way too confusing.
Seems like this would be a better headline. Oh, but of course it would never make ./ unless the headline has RIAA in it, doing some imagined injustice. Don't get me wrong, I hate the *AA and everything they stand for, but come on, copyright infringement is illegal, and the police pursuing crime is hardly ./-worthy.
Here's the verbiage from the FBI copyright warning. Note that it mentions the following terms:
Unauthorized reproduction: Where the right to copy is not granted to you by the copyright holder or by fair use.
Illegal: Criminal law, not civil law applies.
Infringement without monetary gain: You don't have to sell it to be guilty.
blah, blah, blah.
"The unauthorized reproduction or distribution of this copyrighted work is illegal. Criminal copyright infringement, including infringement without monetary gain, is investigated by the FBI and is punishable by up to five years in federal prison and a fine of $250,000."
I just did a bunch of perf testing for a new production OLTP storage system at work. Here's the results (along with some obvious points):
RAID 0 - Fastest read/write performance, best disk capacity, zero redundancy.
RAID 1 - Read/write limited by low spindle count, maximum 2 disks, capacity is equal to smallest disk, single disk failure tolerant.
RAID 5 - Good read, slower write performance due to the calculation of parity, good disk capacity, single disk failure tolerant. In my tests, IO performance peak appears to be around 9 disks, after which through-put drops off significantly.
RAID 10 - Good write, better read, throughput scales in a fairly linear manner up to the limits of the controller, disk capacity is 50% of total disk capacity, support multiple failures (providing a failed disk's mirror partner doesn't also fail). My tests showed that an 8 disk RAID 10 set performed better than a 9 disk RAID 5 set with all other configuration settings unchanged.
All of the above was tested with a good quality hardware RAID controller with write-back caching enabled.
So, in summary, if you want a good balance of capacity, performance and fault tolerance, RAID 5 is the way to go - 9 disks appears to be optimal. If you have plenty of disks, I'd go with RAID 10. Of course, I'd be asking myself if I really need the disk performance, or if I just think that I do. Do some performance profiling, look at disk queues, IOPS, etc. to determine if the expense, time and complexity are warranted.
> but WE paid BILLIONS (that's on the order of 10e9 dollars for you Brits)
Yes, we know. Your billion is much smaller than ours (actually a milliard) in the uk, but we adopted the US meaning in 1975 (IIRC).
Dude, you missed the point - sister has a Nissan (new Altima according to GP), brother calls sister, call disables ignition key... It's called humour.
Video & sound over fiber-optic could significantly increase the cost of devices and I'm not sure that commodity items like low-end DVD players (even $80 sets now have HDMI) could support the additional cost. I don't know how accurate the parallel is, but gigabit ethernet over copper is about 10% of the price of gig over fiber (per port).
Most of the features that you're referring to are used by a very small percentage of the home-theater owning population. The Harmony, or Sony, or whatever, remotes will probably provide the right combination of ease of use and functionality for > 95% of users, plus it is much nicer to hold (the MX-900 sort of looks like a Corellian Corvette with buttons on it).
JMHO, of course.
Absolutely - get yourself a good universal remote, like the Harmony 870 which is activity-centric rather than device-centric, and which device you use to control volume become moot. I'm pretty sure though that the circuity in a decent amp is better than that in a TV, so there's a principle at stake here...
The case is VA was a pretty isolated random nutjob killing random people, this doesn't happen every day. In Iraq, it is a series of well coordinated and organized attacks that happen multiple times per day. How can you even begin to draw a parallel?
Interesting point is that the military does not refer to the weapon issues to an infantry soldier as an 'assault rifle'. This is entirely a civilian term intended to invoke fear. The military refers to the weapon as a Personal Weapon or Individual Weapon.
These weapons are designed to throw large quanities of lead in the direction of the enemy with acceptable levels of accuracy. This is necessary in order to supress the enemy while the assault team moves up on the enemy to engage at close range.
I can't imagine any pratical reason for a civilian to own automatic rifle as there are more suitable weapons for just about every civilian application. Don't get me wrong, I'm not advocating for extra gun legislation and I have used 'assault rifles' in a professional capacity, but the unescapable fact is that while most people owning a rifle that fires 600 rpm will never do anyone harm, an unbalanced individual who does get his hands on them can cause a spectacular amount of carnage in no time flat.