Unless you meant "if they can't find any evidence the car was broken into/hotwired", of course. And that's probably what you meant, so sorry about the noise.
Yes, I suppose so. But then you're using "special" (more expensive) drives and switches, and it might be better value for money for home users just adding a couple of plain SATA drives to the box you already have.
Or if you want to have lots of storage, and RAID, adding more than a couple of plain SATA drives to the mini-ITX box you mentioned. And no need for a switch there.
I don't know. There might be a perfect niche for it, but I don't see it.
Hmm. I don't know. Plugging one drive directly into the network switch is going to be simple and neat, but when you're plugging in several, you might start to wonder if every one of them really needs to have a separate cable to a switch that is essentially just a "disk multiplexer". Let the switch speak SATA instead, and the drives be cheap.
And you need power to those drives too. So even with only one or two drives, you still need additional hardware. It seems to me like it's better to just have a specialized disk switch, even before going into wanting to have the disks on their own separate network.
The problem with ethernet is that it's hard to make go fast. We have 1G now but 10G is difficult because of all the processing involved and the offload engines that come with that.
The offload engines do TCP, don't they? And since this thing goes directly to raw Ethernet... or would it still be a problem?
The people who think that spelling is important on Slashdot need to get a life. You just can't hold an Internet-based discussion forum to the same standard as an academic journal.
I don't think it's anything wrong with pointing out mistakes, at least if it seems to be a genuine misunderstanding and there's a chance whoever made them will read your comment; but some people here seem to actually get upset over spelling (and correcting ACs!) and that's just pointless.
Not to mention the fine old tradition of obvious intentional mistakes, something that still gets comments all the time...
Parking the hard drive heads if/when the laptop is dropped, and so preventing them from touching the spinning platter and destroying data when it hits the ground.
Your comment is now on page five of this whole mess of a discussion (for me at least), but I hope at least some people get this far and can read it. Thank you.
What is funny is that the kinds of people who would visit a website like NASA are the kinds of people who probably are against the conflict in Lebanon.
And, arguably, the most likely to speak up when they see something that's wrong. That would likely be the motivation, assuming they didn't just pick the first vulnerable high-profile target that came along.
Also I wonder why people would blame the US for this war. The US has an army of diplomats trying to encourage all sides to agree to a ceasefire.
Since you asked: Because the US is blocking proposals for UN resolutions against Israel's attacks, which is seen as implicitly giving permission to continue. That's pissing off a lot of people.
What about it? Ahmadinejad, like many other religious fanatics, wants Israel gone. Iran is governed by religious fanatics, so nobody should be surprised that he says what we already know he's thinking.
In fact, the article's title is: "Ahmadinejad's Israel Remarks Split Iran", and continues: "Pro-democracy reformers denounced Iran's hard-line president Sunday for calling for Israel's annihilation...".
I don't see that it exactly strengthens your argument that all Arabs supposedly think alike. Rather the opposite, actually.
Oh, and Iran isn't even Arabic. But who cares, they're all alike as long as they're not white, right?
As a sidenote, make a regular habit of visiting the english version of Al-Jazeera. You may find that it is the wrong point of view - but when half the world follows the 'wrong' point of view it is no longer 'wrong' - it is 'relevant'.
Indeed.
You absolutely have to understand that not everybody have the same basic worldview as you do, and that other people are also simply trying to do what's right. And if you don't, you'll never really understand "why they hate us".
Furthermore, get a load of this gem: "It would be easy to dismiss the Newton's greyscale screen as inferior to the Q1's full-colour display, but Apple's choice of a greyscale LCD is one of the reasons the Newton enjoys over 30 hours of continuous battery life, compared to the Q1's 2.5 hours." WTF? This is biased reviewing at its best.
In case you missed it, the "review" is written in the form of two people arguing with each other about their personal favourites. (more or less) Only the intro and the final conclusions is supposed to be read as being objective.
That quote of yours is simply from the "Newton guy".
A recent series of programs (possibly on SBS or ABC-TV)
shows an assembly of nerds being converted into a team
of sportspeople (most, if not all, men).
This sounds like the "FC Zulu" (?) concept. Originally from Denmark, I believe, and it ran here in Sweden as "FC Z". (The channels are/were named (Channel) "Z" and "Zulu", afaik)
It's a pretty good idea. The nerds get to watch people who are just like they are being on TV (and how often does that happen?) and the rest of the audience can laugh when they fall over. Or something. As long as you have a good balance..
It's interesting and just a bit unreal watching them go through some teambuilding excercise / gratuitous public torture, and then sit down and talk about tanks in WW2 or Trek. For some reason I don't see that in a whole lot of other shows on TV at the moment.
And it's a pretty positive show too - there's no elimination of contestants, and they all work together (in getting their asses kicked by progressively better teams). I didn't see a whole lot of moralizing, but I suppose that's up to the network and what they think will get viewers.
Israel and Hizbollah start a little pissing contest, the arab nations get involved (hint: they've been at war with Israel several times since WW2), US troops in Iraq gets pulled into this shit, Iran decides to make a move...
And that (emphasised) is why you guys in the US should care. Having Israel bombing the crap out of Lebanon isn't exactly going to make people in Iraq think happy warm thoughts about the one country that could interfere and stop it, but chooses not to. People are going to die over this, and not just those thirteen-a-dozen arabs that nobody cares about.
It just might be time to let a resolution condemning Israel's actions pass in the UN, this one time. You can always patch up relations later, when you don't have people being blown up in that part of the world.
In other words, it usually pays to go along with the rules, even if you do not agree with them or think they don't apply to you.
That works with the positions slightly shifted too. China gets away with a lot more than "lesser" countries, thanks to US companies' infinite greed, sorry, desire to have access to the giant Chinese market.
It has already been posted that we do the same. However, I thought I'd mention the fact that we don't have all of the safeguards that are in place in places like the US; for example, anything that the police find as a result of the searches can be used to bring up unrelated charges. And that goes for wiretaps too, under the delicious name "surplus information".
I'm not so well read on US law, but basically anything goes here. Hence this "we heard there were some shady things going on, so we thought we'd take a look" raid.
[...]the police concluded that all computers connected to local unregistered LANs are used for hosting/trading illegal software/movies/mp3s and began breaking the doors and seizing the computers of anyone not connected to the Cable operators who "sponsored" this operation.
[...]
and in a few days the police arrested almost 100 people for this - with the only proof being an IP address.
What IP address? 192.168.0.1? Or one of those weird local Windows ones?
(Sorry. This does indeed look horrifying. Hope you get this fixed soon.)
Why do you want to go stay there if there is not a good motivation to do it?
I realize you might have been joking, but:
To use it as a stepping stone to where we really want to go.
I believe someone said in the recent space elevator thread that we could actually build an elevator on the Moon today, without any need for exotic carbon nanotube-type materials. And I'm fairly certain there already are plans for making rocket fuel from materials available on the Moon. Much better than having to haul fuel from the Earth.
So once we get there, we're in a much better position to go to Mars (yawn) or somewhere more exiting.
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Unless you meant "if they can't find any evidence the car was broken into/hotwired", of course. And that's probably what you meant, so sorry about the noise.
I thought cars were driven all the time. And even by their owners. Silly me.
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Seriously, WTF? If that's an excuse they can actually use, then you're screwed no matter what..
Or if you want to have lots of storage, and RAID, adding more than a couple of plain SATA drives to the mini-ITX box you mentioned. And no need for a switch there.
I don't know. There might be a perfect niche for it, but I don't see it.
And you need power to those drives too. So even with only one or two drives, you still need additional hardware. It seems to me like it's better to just have a specialized disk switch, even before going into wanting to have the disks on their own separate network.
I don't think it's anything wrong with pointing out mistakes, at least if it seems to be a genuine misunderstanding and there's a chance whoever made them will read your comment; but some people here seem to actually get upset over spelling (and correcting ACs!) and that's just pointless.
Not to mention the fine old tradition of obvious intentional mistakes, something that still gets comments all the time...
Parking the hard drive heads if/when the laptop is dropped, and so preventing them from touching the spinning platter and destroying data when it hits the ground.
Your comment is now on page five of this whole mess of a discussion (for me at least), but I hope at least some people get this far and can read it. Thank you.
In fact, the article's title is: "Ahmadinejad's Israel Remarks Split Iran", and continues: "Pro-democracy reformers denounced Iran's hard-line president Sunday for calling for Israel's annihilation ...".
I don't see that it exactly strengthens your argument that all Arabs supposedly think alike. Rather the opposite, actually.
Oh, and Iran isn't even Arabic. But who cares, they're all alike as long as they're not white, right?
You absolutely have to understand that not everybody have the same basic worldview as you do, and that other people are also simply trying to do what's right. And if you don't, you'll never really understand "why they hate us".
I thought their business was things that go whoosh over people's heads?
(Sigh..)
Oh well, I guess I'll can try for a save by the obligatory "+4 Insightful? What are the moderators smoking today?!" comment. Hmm. Nah.
That quote of yours is simply from the "Newton guy".
It's a pretty good idea. The nerds get to watch people who are just like they are being on TV (and how often does that happen?) and the rest of the audience can laugh when they fall over. Or something. As long as you have a good balance..
It's interesting and just a bit unreal watching them go through some teambuilding excercise / gratuitous public torture, and then sit down and talk about tanks in WW2 or Trek. For some reason I don't see that in a whole lot of other shows on TV at the moment.
And it's a pretty positive show too - there's no elimination of contestants, and they all work together (in getting their asses kicked by progressively better teams). I didn't see a whole lot of moralizing, but I suppose that's up to the network and what they think will get viewers.
It just might be time to let a resolution condemning Israel's actions pass in the UN, this one time. You can always patch up relations later, when you don't have people being blown up in that part of the world.
(steps off soapbox)
Or are you saying one would use the fing-longer (sp?) to aid its movement through the digestive tract? :-)
I'm not so well read on US law, but basically anything goes here. Hence this "we heard there were some shady things going on, so we thought we'd take a look" raid.
(Sorry. This does indeed look horrifying. Hope you get this fixed soon.)
From my viewpoint the party was started by "just a bunch of friends", none of which I can remember even posting on Piratbyrån's forums.
I could tell you which cool-for-its-time 80's dial-up mail network the bunch of friends came from, but you wouldn't believe me.
It's great, because we never have to wonder about the baby's gender.
If you are worried about overpopulation, we could just start some more wars. (Because that's the Terran way!)
To use it as a stepping stone to where we really want to go.
I believe someone said in the recent space elevator thread that we could actually build an elevator on the Moon today, without any need for exotic carbon nanotube-type materials. And I'm fairly certain there already are plans for making rocket fuel from materials available on the Moon. Much better than having to haul fuel from the Earth.
So once we get there, we're in a much better position to go to Mars (yawn) or somewhere more exiting.