Um SATA is forward compatible to SAS, so you can use a SATA drive on a SAS connection. This implies that the SAS controller can 'speak' SATA which should be fairly easy to implement. Whilst having a SAS drive (SCSI instruction set drive with a SATA type connector) speak both SAS and SATA would put too much electronics on these drives (you are only going to buy SAS drives if you really need them as they are much more expensive, but you may have SAS connectors you wish to use on your motherboard).
If you really want to use SAS drives on a SATA controller you are a complete weirdo. You lose all the benifits of the SCSI instruction set whilst paying for the complete lack of any features not already available on cheaper SATA drives. Maybe a slightly better manufacturing quality, but then if you don't back up your data you will be sorry sooner or later.
So the added expense is making the SAS controller on the motherboard understand SATA command set; (and the SCSI command set) so that you can use cheap drives on a motherboard with SAS drives, useful for non-mission critical machines; is not much compared with the overall cost of the motherboard.
Rather than have SAS drives support SATA as you are only likely to buy these (you'd be really dumb otherwise) if you need the benifits of SAS, ie. the SCSI command set.
Example: 500GB SATA 300 £125; 146GB SAS £435 or 36GB SAS £126.
You are basically saying you should use >5x more expensive disks should be used when you lose all benifits of paying so much.
And anyway most of the modern workstations i've seen recently have contained at least some SAS connectors, if you don't have them and you have the money to waste on SAS drives go buy yourself one.
And anyway a SAS controller card is only about £200 so it's no worse than getting one more SAS drive.
In the Imperial system a pint of water weighs a pound and a quarter, sorry you American Coustomary Unit user this does not apply, a pint of water weighs almost but not quite (up or down i can't be arsed to look it up right now, use google if interested) a pound.
I like ous it rhymes so I remember it, but then i'm happy doing any calculations in metric as the whole inch, foot, yard, pole, chain, furlong, mile, fathom, league is problematic not to mention any other units which on the whole obey entirely separate rules of conversion.
I don't somehow think it will be called iTV as in the UK this is used by "Independant Television". So another branding using this name for a television service would probably not be allowed or cause confusion with consumers.
Not that I would personally have issues with this but I imagine that if this were over here in Britain there would also be people who couldn't tell the difference between pounds and pence. Although we probably would write this as.2p rather than have the element of confusion by writing this as £0.002, because people naturally change units when they come to a decimal point in prices. It does go to whow you what an american high school education teaches you.
It can also be 0 (zero times anything = 0) or 1 (number divided by itself = 1) or in fact any number you care to use, this is why dividing by zero is bad, algebra breaks down.
To be fair it's not entirely uncommon for mathematicians to invent new concepts. Take as the primary example the square root of -1, this is the imaginary number i. So having a symbol to designate dividing by zero quite sensible, does it help the maths, well no because once you divide by 0 algebra stops making sense eg.
1 x 0 = 0
(1 x 0)/0 = 0/0
and
2 x 0 = 0
(2 x 0)/0 = 0/0
It then follows that
(1 x 0)/0 = 0/0 = (2 x 0)/0
so you have
1 x 0/0 = 2 x 0/0
cancelling the x 0/0 you have
1 = 2
(there are more elegant proofs than this i just can't remember them this morning)
Although you seem to expect that:
a) The poor can afford a Mac
b) That users have any idea about security
c) That having a single company doing everything is the best way
While Macs are nice they are not something that everyone can have, they are monopolistic just not actually a monopoly. So don't go on about this you complete moron yes Mac do fill a niche but they are not for everyone and have mostly stopped competing for the general consumer market, although with things such as the Mac mini etc they are not quite so far out of users reach now.
Apple aim for specific parts of the market, Microsoft aims for all of it which means supporting commodity hardware (some other commercial OS would have filled that niche otherwise). If apple wanted to claim a larger share they could commoditise their hardware but they don't they want to keep tight control which makes sense for them but is not necessarily a good strategy for the general consumer market.
Just because you can do a simple diff does not mean that people will. Most of the IT folk I know want something simple so that you can explain it to regular users. While you can do everything on the command line Windows have shown us (albeit after other solutions already existed) that users like shiny pictures and 'friendly' interfaces. So you can keep preaching but you're not going to convert the world.
Once you understand that pretty much everyone is lazy you can come up with solutions that even lazy people can understand. Microsoft have done something which some other would have done had they not existed, they allowed 'regular' people to use computers without lots of hours staring at code. They made computers affordable by supporting almost all commercial hardware.
Apple force you into buying their hardware which was (and still is mostly) more expensive that you can get for commodity PCs (VAIOs etc. are obviously aiming at a more style concious consumer). Linux is still not quite there for most people although many good things have been said about Ubuntu and Fedora Core that this may change in the not so didtant future. Whilst it is possible to get Linux to do almost anything this is not what users want, they want to do a few simple things easily, with point and click interfaces not fscking around with.conf files. Geeks can play all they like, it's what they enjoy, but users don't care they want it to just work on what ever they have.
I'm no Microsoft fan boy but can see that they filled a space in the market for cheap commodity PCs which just did they job, not the best solution out there but the best one of the time for the money. Linux may get there once they work out some of the kinks of giving everybody everything, simple distributions that make installing extra software simple point and click, options in sensible places and compatibility with all hardware, it's a difficult balance and if I had the ability to help with any of those things I would.
The US "created" multiple layers in government? What are you speaking about, only 4 governments using the American style have lasted longer than 30 years, whilst we in England have the longest stable government in modern times, with 2 separate bodies (commons and lords) both made up of differing parties and ideas. They both debate issues offering many different views. With the Queen as titular head of state.
Don't go exporting your "Americans are the greatest" non-sense here, We in Europe have had stable governments since BEFORE you were even a country of your own.
Dude the name is spelled Sebastian in English, Sebastien if you are French but NEVER Sebastion. Get it right you dumb ass (learn how to say the name also, it's sylables are Se.bas.ti.an, I should know it's my damn name)
dude, the name is Sebastian you dumb ass, this is the English spelling of course, the French being Sebastien. There is no such name now as Sebastion and you are seriously dumb for thinking so. I know that's how you Americans say the name but you are incorrect in the pronumciation which is Se.bas.ti.an (4 sylables not the 3 that Americans use). Please note this is MY name and it fucks me off when people get it wrong.
actually not that simple more like
if ($day > 365 && $leapyear = 0){
$thisday = $day - 365
}elsif($day > 366 && $leapyear = 1){
$thisday = $day - 366
}else{
$thisday = $day
}
Your code has every day of any year that is not the first (and december 31 of the first year as you used >= 365) as day 1...
I would counter that with saying if you are stupid go to college it will help you get a job. If you are smart enough it really doesn't matter if you go to college or not you will just find it that little bit harder to get started, but once you do that piece of paper is not really going to help you that much.
A degree say's I'm not stupid and can think for myself, but then so does being good at your job, one of which employers take more seriously than the other. It does however make getting that first job easier. But once you have a job people really don't notice that much if you have a degree or not (this might be different in america but this is what I've found in the UK).
I speak as someone who left college without a degree who is earning more than some of the people I went to college with.
Yes those in Eurpoe have figured out that government is about sticking up for the little guy and making sure that the minority voice gets heard. It is not a vehicle for corperate execs to push their own agenda, although they too should be heard. Society is measured by the weakest not the strongest. Governments should stand up for the rights of the people, that's why we elect them in the first place.
This is why we have welfare states, universal health care, education for all (the Brits are however screwing this up at the moment though) not services based on how much money you have, the same service for all, and free enterprise if you want to spend your money; in addition to taxes; on private services such as healthcare. The poor should not suffer because they are poor, they should be given the same chances and assistance as the wealthy. Although if the wealthy want to spend their money and increase the economy i'm not going to stand in their way.
no the correct word is elude (synonym: evade; as in the meaning of the terms used to describe features evades understanding by lay folk) so it's just poor spelling. A whole affect/effect issue I suspect.
No offence but if you have a Yahoo account and want free POP access perhaps you should go to the options page and turn it the damn on
from the yahoo mail site
"Yahoo! Mail gives you even more flexibility with two free features!
As a Yahoo! Delivers member (you asked to receive special offers via when you registered with us), you can take advantage of email forwarding and POP access. Each one is free, exclusively for Yahoo! Delivers members."
So I've got FREE access to POP with my yahoo account and have advised many others that they can do this (when working for an anti-spam company which required POP) So you obviously don't look before criticising. NOt that i like yahoo mail anyway but don't go spreading lies as it just makes you look stupid.
No offence but Yahoo has had free pop access for YEARS, you just have to turn it on in the options (something like pop access and forwarding option). I used to advise people how to do this when I worked for an anti-spam company which needed POP access to work. I have also access several of my own yahoo accounts over POP so know also from first hand experience that you are wrong.
The correct spelling (although both are valid, granted) is hiccough. It's one of the 11 possible pronounciations of "ough" in English and is far cooler (In my opinion).
For those of you who prefer the easier more phonetic spelling go to Spain or Wales as both Spanish and Welsh ARE phonetic languages. (although the dd and ll may confuse some of you).
enjoy
Well this is really not news to me. I work for an anti-spam company (not a very good one) and I personally noticed this first occur about 12-18 months ago. At that time Verizon decided to block pretty much all oversees mail. Being based in the UK caused no end of issue, although I seem to recal having PTR records did help some.
So they have been evil again, wow, i'm shocked truely shocked.
You seem to forget this is a supercritical fluid (water under high pressure and temprature). It has no friction. So let's explore your idea, suck water out rock cools, ok good so far. But wait the frictionless fluid would flow into the holes left my you sucking water out, this is yet more supercritical water which you can also suck out. The only trouble is running out of water, but the rock is very holey and also large amounts of rainfall (and some sea) would probably top this up (although there is probably a limit you could probably artifically add water if it came to it).
The other option is cooling the magma, not going to happen soon although probably not very long in astronomical terms.
The cold water will heat up over a large distance to the bore hole 5 miles down. (rain falls) so there will be no localised heat loss, in addition to the heat transfer of the magma. It's possible this may make it less likely to have an eruption due to you removing energy ina controled manner from the volcano. But this is just conjecture.
"Actually, Microsoft is already licensing the Windows source code. However the significance of the new event is, they will not be choosing the licensor (at least not as much as before)."
Just so you know, Microsoft is ALWAYS the licensor as they own the product that is being licensed. They would choose the licensee, or one to whom the license is granted.
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If you really want to use SAS drives on a SATA controller you are a complete weirdo. You lose all the benifits of the SCSI instruction set whilst paying for the complete lack of any features not already available on cheaper SATA drives. Maybe a slightly better manufacturing quality, but then if you don't back up your data you will be sorry sooner or later.
So the added expense is making the SAS controller on the motherboard understand SATA command set; (and the SCSI command set) so that you can use cheap drives on a motherboard with SAS drives, useful for non-mission critical machines; is not much compared with the overall cost of the motherboard.
Rather than have SAS drives support SATA as you are only likely to buy these (you'd be really dumb otherwise) if you need the benifits of SAS, ie. the SCSI command set.
Example: 500GB SATA 300 £125; 146GB SAS £435 or 36GB SAS £126.
You are basically saying you should use >5x more expensive disks should be used when you lose all benifits of paying so much.
And anyway most of the modern workstations i've seen recently have contained at least some SAS connectors, if you don't have them and you have the money to waste on SAS drives go buy yourself one.
And anyway a SAS controller card is only about £200 so it's no worse than getting one more SAS drive.
http://thepiratebay.org.istheshit.net/?
traceroute thepiratebay.org if you want to see for yourself.
sorry if i'm late to the party on that one...
In the Imperial system a pint of water weighs a pound and a quarter, sorry you American Coustomary Unit user this does not apply, a pint of water weighs almost but not quite (up or down i can't be arsed to look it up right now, use google if interested) a pound. I like ous it rhymes so I remember it, but then i'm happy doing any calculations in metric as the whole inch, foot, yard, pole, chain, furlong, mile, fathom, league is problematic not to mention any other units which on the whole obey entirely separate rules of conversion.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=1+british+thermal +unit+in+electron+volts&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org. mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a
It's easy to convert when you know how.
I don't somehow think it will be called iTV as in the UK this is used by "Independant Television". So another branding using this name for a television service would probably not be allowed or cause confusion with consumers.
Ask them to write down the following things
.002,
.002, cent sign
.2p rather than have the element of confusion by writing this as £0.002, because people naturally change units when they come to a decimal point in prices. It does go to whow you what an american high school education teaches you.
Dollar sign,
Not that I would personally have issues with this but I imagine that if this were over here in Britain there would also be people who couldn't tell the difference between pounds and pence. Although we probably would write this as
It can also be 0 (zero times anything = 0) or 1 (number divided by itself = 1) or in fact any number you care to use, this is why dividing by zero is bad, algebra breaks down.
To be fair it's not entirely uncommon for mathematicians to invent new concepts. Take as the primary example the square root of -1, this is the imaginary number i. So having a symbol to designate dividing by zero quite sensible, does it help the maths, well no because once you divide by 0 algebra stops making sense eg.
1 x 0 = 0
(1 x 0)/0 = 0/0
and
2 x 0 = 0
(2 x 0)/0 = 0/0
It then follows that
(1 x 0)/0 = 0/0 = (2 x 0)/0
so you have
1 x 0/0 = 2 x 0/0
cancelling the x 0/0 you have
1 = 2
(there are more elegant proofs than this i just can't remember them this morning)
Although you seem to expect that: a) The poor can afford a Mac b) That users have any idea about security c) That having a single company doing everything is the best way While Macs are nice they are not something that everyone can have, they are monopolistic just not actually a monopoly. So don't go on about this you complete moron yes Mac do fill a niche but they are not for everyone and have mostly stopped competing for the general consumer market, although with things such as the Mac mini etc they are not quite so far out of users reach now. Apple aim for specific parts of the market, Microsoft aims for all of it which means supporting commodity hardware (some other commercial OS would have filled that niche otherwise). If apple wanted to claim a larger share they could commoditise their hardware but they don't they want to keep tight control which makes sense for them but is not necessarily a good strategy for the general consumer market.
Just because you can do a simple diff does not mean that people will. Most of the IT folk I know want something simple so that you can explain it to regular users. While you can do everything on the command line Windows have shown us (albeit after other solutions already existed) that users like shiny pictures and 'friendly' interfaces. So you can keep preaching but you're not going to convert the world. .conf files. Geeks can play all they like, it's what they enjoy, but users don't care they want it to just work on what ever they have.
Once you understand that pretty much everyone is lazy you can come up with solutions that even lazy people can understand. Microsoft have done something which some other would have done had they not existed, they allowed 'regular' people to use computers without lots of hours staring at code. They made computers affordable by supporting almost all commercial hardware.
Apple force you into buying their hardware which was (and still is mostly) more expensive that you can get for commodity PCs (VAIOs etc. are obviously aiming at a more style concious consumer). Linux is still not quite there for most people although many good things have been said about Ubuntu and Fedora Core that this may change in the not so didtant future. Whilst it is possible to get Linux to do almost anything this is not what users want, they want to do a few simple things easily, with point and click interfaces not fscking around with
I'm no Microsoft fan boy but can see that they filled a space in the market for cheap commodity PCs which just did they job, not the best solution out there but the best one of the time for the money. Linux may get there once they work out some of the kinks of giving everybody everything, simple distributions that make installing extra software simple point and click, options in sensible places and compatibility with all hardware, it's a difficult balance and if I had the ability to help with any of those things I would.
The US "created" multiple layers in government? What are you speaking about, only 4 governments using the American style have lasted longer than 30 years, whilst we in England have the longest stable government in modern times, with 2 separate bodies (commons and lords) both made up of differing parties and ideas. They both debate issues offering many different views. With the Queen as titular head of state. Don't go exporting your "Americans are the greatest" non-sense here, We in Europe have had stable governments since BEFORE you were even a country of your own.
Dude the name is spelled Sebastian in English, Sebastien if you are French but NEVER Sebastion. Get it right you dumb ass (learn how to say the name also, it's sylables are Se.bas.ti.an, I should know it's my damn name)
dude, the name is Sebastian you dumb ass, this is the English spelling of course, the French being Sebastien. There is no such name now as Sebastion and you are seriously dumb for thinking so. I know that's how you Americans say the name but you are incorrect in the pronumciation which is Se.bas.ti.an (4 sylables not the 3 that Americans use). Please note this is MY name and it fucks me off when people get it wrong.
actually not that simple more like if ($day > 365 && $leapyear = 0){ $thisday = $day - 365 }elsif($day > 366 && $leapyear = 1){ $thisday = $day - 366 }else{ $thisday = $day } Your code has every day of any year that is not the first (and december 31 of the first year as you used >= 365) as day 1...
I would counter that with saying if you are stupid go to college it will help you get a job. If you are smart enough it really doesn't matter if you go to college or not you will just find it that little bit harder to get started, but once you do that piece of paper is not really going to help you that much.
A degree say's I'm not stupid and can think for myself, but then so does being good at your job, one of which employers take more seriously than the other. It does however make getting that first job easier. But once you have a job people really don't notice that much if you have a degree or not (this might be different in america but this is what I've found in the UK).
I speak as someone who left college without a degree who is earning more than some of the people I went to college with.
Yes those in Eurpoe have figured out that government is about sticking up for the little guy and making sure that the minority voice gets heard. It is not a vehicle for corperate execs to push their own agenda, although they too should be heard. Society is measured by the weakest not the strongest. Governments should stand up for the rights of the people, that's why we elect them in the first place.
This is why we have welfare states, universal health care, education for all (the Brits are however screwing this up at the moment though) not services based on how much money you have, the same service for all, and free enterprise if you want to spend your money; in addition to taxes; on private services such as healthcare. The poor should not suffer because they are poor, they should be given the same chances and assistance as the wealthy. Although if the wealthy want to spend their money and increase the economy i'm not going to stand in their way.
no the correct word is elude (synonym: evade; as in the meaning of the terms used to describe features evades understanding by lay folk) so it's just poor spelling. A whole affect/effect issue I suspect.
Well I still have POP access and don't pay for it so mayhap i'm special (or just at a .co.uk address...)
No offence but if you have a Yahoo account and want free POP access perhaps you should go to the options page and turn it the damn on from the yahoo mail site "Yahoo! Mail gives you even more flexibility with two free features! As a Yahoo! Delivers member (you asked to receive special offers via when you registered with us), you can take advantage of email forwarding and POP access. Each one is free, exclusively for Yahoo! Delivers members." So I've got FREE access to POP with my yahoo account and have advised many others that they can do this (when working for an anti-spam company which required POP) So you obviously don't look before criticising. NOt that i like yahoo mail anyway but don't go spreading lies as it just makes you look stupid.
No offence but Yahoo has had free pop access for YEARS, you just have to turn it on in the options (something like pop access and forwarding option). I used to advise people how to do this when I worked for an anti-spam company which needed POP access to work. I have also access several of my own yahoo accounts over POP so know also from first hand experience that you are wrong.
Well some, I shall use ingeneous, person had a similar issue only their space bar was broken so it was:
myspace
bar
on
my
laptop
has
completely
broken.
it
is
4yrs
old.
would
this
be
something
that
could
be
fixed?
Not all users are bad, some can solve some simple issues.
The correct spelling (although both are valid, granted) is hiccough. It's one of the 11 possible pronounciations of "ough" in English and is far cooler (In my opinion). For those of you who prefer the easier more phonetic spelling go to Spain or Wales as both Spanish and Welsh ARE phonetic languages. (although the dd and ll may confuse some of you). enjoy
Well this is really not news to me. I work for an anti-spam company (not a very good one) and I personally noticed this first occur about 12-18 months ago. At that time Verizon decided to block pretty much all oversees mail. Being based in the UK caused no end of issue, although I seem to recal having PTR records did help some.
So they have been evil again, wow, i'm shocked truely shocked.
enjoy
You seem to forget this is a supercritical fluid (water under high pressure and temprature). It has no friction. So let's explore your idea, suck water out rock cools, ok good so far. But wait the frictionless fluid would flow into the holes left my you sucking water out, this is yet more supercritical water which you can also suck out. The only trouble is running out of water, but the rock is very holey and also large amounts of rainfall (and some sea) would probably top this up (although there is probably a limit you could probably artifically add water if it came to it).
The other option is cooling the magma, not going to happen soon although probably not very long in astronomical terms.
The cold water will heat up over a large distance to the bore hole 5 miles down. (rain falls) so there will be no localised heat loss, in addition to the heat transfer of the magma. It's possible this may make it less likely to have an eruption due to you removing energy ina controled manner from the volcano. But this is just conjecture.
"Actually, Microsoft is already licensing the Windows source code. However the significance of the new event is, they will not be choosing the licensor (at least not as much as before)."
Just so you know, Microsoft is ALWAYS the licensor as they own the product that is being licensed. They would choose the licensee, or one to whom the license is granted.
http://www.answers.com/licensee&r=67
http://www.answers.com/topic/licensor-1?method=6