Who said we were going to cover the land? There is plenty of space to soak up them photons with and beam it home (and yes, there are safe, production-ready rectifier designs to receive that space-based solar power).
So, you're stuck either carrying quite a bit of propellant, attempting to find sources along your route to scavenge (asteroids, comets, suitable planetary bodies), or us coming up with some other propulsion method that doesn't rely on propellant ("warp drive" sounds so cheesy, but some method of dragging yourself across the fabric of space). Lovely.
Double digit failures out of tens of thousands of LTO3/4 tapes. Nothing to write home about, but if it's your only copy of the data, it's something to think about.
Why not use magnetic fields to scoop hydrogen from in front of your craft and accelerate them out the back using a particle accelerator/cyclotron. This could be powered via solar near our/other suns, or nuclear RTGs further out. Similar to an ion drive, but without the need to carry the propellant.
More info on CERN's infosystems for the collider, as they're the Tier-0 site (which means, in realtime, they take the raw detector data, strip it to the bare essentials, and than shove it out to Tier-1 sites at up to 40Gb/s (depending on the detector/experiment):
While the data isn't backed up all in one spot, it can either a) be reconstructed from other data, b) regathered from the 800+ other facilities we distribute chunks of the data to, or c) recollected. It's cheaper than the $8-12 million it would cost to backup all 17PB offsite (and that's taxpayer money).
Example: My last gig was with the DOE working on the US site for the CMS experiment for the Large Hadron Collider. We had around 5PB of spinning disk and 17PB of LTO4 tape storage for the detector data (you can't really backup 17PB offsite for a reasonable cost). We'd have bad tapes quite often, and it didn't matter if you did a verify at the end of the tape write before it was stored by the robotics.
The problem with tape vs live backups is that you can immediately test the integrity of your data against checksums or other redundant chunks of the data in realtime. Not so with tape. Once you write to tape, unless you check it every so often, you have no idea if the data is still good or not.
And a private contractor is going to be less "malicious" than Google how? All the data is public anyway. As long as Google includes the data as part of their data liberation project, and makes it easy to take the data elsewhere if the USPTO decided to, I don't see the problem.
Your statement only applies to locations where there is alternate forms of transportation (rail, bus, etc). If walking 30 miles is the only other option, driving being a privilege doesn't hold water. But, that's what you get when you build auto-centric communities. You live with your consequences.
The problem is, no matter how harsh you make the punishment, people will still speed, people will still drive recklessly. The solution? When designing communities, reduce the reliance on the automobile. You can't change human nature, just act on it.
That is, if there are pumps that work well with oily water... There must be, right?
Didn't know if you were sarcastic, but of course the same pumps they're using now to separate the oil, water, and methane hydrates coming up the redneck riser they have in place could be used.
Haven't you always wanted a BIOS that needs its own FAT32(or HFS+ in Apple's freaky nonconformant implementation) partition in order to store its own device drivers?
Meanwhile, the Chinese continue to save and to live within their means, accumulating capital that will increase their productivity going forward.
Unlike in the US, where your conspicuous consumption is what gets the ladies (the shallow ones at least), men in China compete for woman by how much they save:
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Who said we were going to cover the land? There is plenty of space to soak up them photons with and beam it home (and yes, there are safe, production-ready rectifier designs to receive that space-based solar power).
So, you're stuck either carrying quite a bit of propellant, attempting to find sources along your route to scavenge (asteroids, comets, suitable planetary bodies), or us coming up with some other propulsion method that doesn't rely on propellant ("warp drive" sounds so cheesy, but some method of dragging yourself across the fabric of space). Lovely.
That "hot babe" is probably a dude. Even more motivation for your wife not to find out =) Not that there is anything wrong with that.
Double digit failures out of tens of thousands of LTO3/4 tapes. Nothing to write home about, but if it's your only copy of the data, it's something to think about.
Why not use magnetic fields to scoop hydrogen from in front of your craft and accelerate them out the back using a particle accelerator/cyclotron. This could be powered via solar near our/other suns, or nuclear RTGs further out. Similar to an ion drive, but without the need to carry the propellant.
Why not work on both?
Depends on how much data you have. Data being live always beats tape or other offline methods, as you can check *right now* if the data is kosher.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/eb/Storagetek-tape_drive_hg.jpg
More info on CERN's infosystems for the collider, as they're the Tier-0 site (which means, in realtime, they take the raw detector data, strip it to the bare essentials, and than shove it out to Tier-1 sites at up to 40Gb/s (depending on the detector/experiment):
http://news.cnet.com/8300-11386_3-76-2.html?keyword=CERN
While the data isn't backed up all in one spot, it can either a) be reconstructed from other data, b) regathered from the 800+ other facilities we distribute chunks of the data to, or c) recollected. It's cheaper than the $8-12 million it would cost to backup all 17PB offsite (and that's taxpayer money).
I need no primer on LTO4 technology chief =) Thanks though.
We did this at my last gig. You'd still have bad tapes, didn't matter if you checked the tape at the end of the write.
Example: My last gig was with the DOE working on the US site for the CMS experiment for the Large Hadron Collider. We had around 5PB of spinning disk and 17PB of LTO4 tape storage for the detector data (you can't really backup 17PB offsite for a reasonable cost). We'd have bad tapes quite often, and it didn't matter if you did a verify at the end of the tape write before it was stored by the robotics.
Trust but verify.
And a private contractor is going to be less "malicious" than Google how? All the data is public anyway. As long as Google includes the data as part of their data liberation project, and makes it easy to take the data elsewhere if the USPTO decided to, I don't see the problem.
It's only unfair if you don't have the wealth.
Could you not use those printers with the IPP protocol? That should allow you to print over IP and have them work with Win 7.
My wife's Camry Hybrid gets roughly 40mpg up to 90-95mph.
Your statement only applies to locations where there is alternate forms of transportation (rail, bus, etc). If walking 30 miles is the only other option, driving being a privilege doesn't hold water. But, that's what you get when you build auto-centric communities. You live with your consequences.
The problem is, no matter how harsh you make the punishment, people will still speed, people will still drive recklessly. The solution? When designing communities, reduce the reliance on the automobile. You can't change human nature, just act on it.
That is, if there are pumps that work well with oily water... There must be, right?
Didn't know if you were sarcastic, but of course the same pumps they're using now to separate the oil, water, and methane hydrates coming up the redneck riser they have in place could be used.
Will you take movies in trade? I'll swear on their value! Perhaps we can get the MPAA to appraise them =)
Haven't you always wanted a BIOS that needs its own FAT32(or HFS+ in Apple's freaky nonconformant implementation) partition in order to store its own device drivers?
OH GAWD NO!
Let me be the first to say, "Oh we're so fucked"
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/media-arts-and-sciences/mas-863-how-to-make-almost-anything-fall-2002/index.htm
Meanwhile, the Chinese continue to save and to live within their means, accumulating capital that will increase their productivity going forward.
Unlike in the US, where your conspicuous consumption is what gets the ladies (the shallow ones at least), men in China compete for woman by how much they save:
http://www.businessinsider.com/hoarding-money-is-the-only-way-to-impress-a-woman-in-china-2010-2