Well, a really good and useful "home" scenario is a system backup of multiple computers with the same OS. OS itself plus common software takes at least 20-30 GB per installation these days.
My WHS (which does support de-dup in form of Single-instance storage) server keeps full backup (3-months worth) of my seven Windows home computers on about 60 GB.
Unfortunately SIS does not work for WHS shared folders, so my two Linux machines' (my version control & gallery servers) rsync backups over SMB are not de-duplicated by WHS.
I could probably save only/etc,/var and/srv of each server, but so far I backup everything.
Now if they also will learn to shred the books in the process and sell the technology to Google, then I will really respect Vernor Vinge's insight (Rainbows End)
No, it does not:( In this kind of topology you can bend, stretch, distort and thin out but you can't merge holes or make new ones or glue loose ends or tear a connection.
The case of 6 holes:
Imagine a hollow sphere with 6 holes on it surface. This sphere is equivalent to a wire cube or better a pyramid with 5 sides (and a pentagon at the base, to make it easier to imagine).
Now flatten this pyramid and its sides will form 5 holes. This 2D shape is equivalent to 3D 5-torus (yes, one can go easily from N-D to 2D in topology).
Actually, no. I don't have any piercing and I believe I represent an average mammal in all its glory. Counting my own orifices, it's more like 3-torus. Ears, while having Eustachian tubes, are still closed by ear drums and urinary tract is a dead end.
I also believe the above applies not to mammals only but to all tetrapods. Maybe to all vertebrae too but I am not sure how many open orifices fishes have.
Sensors became better and better and unless you sit in an adiabatic room, we can get a lot about your state of body and mind. As we approaching the singlularity, we even can predict your behaviour and then we can replicate you in our computers.
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Well, then it's really tough to put you into a right Dante's Hell circle. It's either #1 or #5. :)
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SIS is frequently implemented in file systems, e-mail server software, data backup and other storage-related solutions.
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Well, a really good and useful "home" scenario is a system backup of multiple computers with the same OS.
OS itself plus common software takes at least 20-30 GB per installation these days.
My WHS (which does support de-dup in form of Single-instance storage) server keeps full backup (3-months worth) of my seven Windows home computers on about 60 GB.
Unfortunately SIS does not work for WHS shared folders, so my two Linux machines' (my version control & gallery servers) rsync backups over SMB are not de-duplicated by WHS.
I could probably save only /etc, /var and /srv of each server, but so far I backup everything.
Now if they also will learn to shred the books in the process and sell the technology to Google, then I will really respect Vernor Vinge's insight (Rainbows End)
I think it was "Zed's dead, Baby, Zed's dead"
Uh... I have to have a shower. Right now.
No, it does not :(
In this kind of topology you can bend, stretch, distort and thin out but you can't merge holes or make new ones or glue loose ends or tear a connection.
The case of 6 holes:
Imagine a hollow sphere with 6 holes on it surface.
This sphere is equivalent to a wire cube or better a pyramid with 5 sides (and a pentagon at the base, to make it easier to imagine).
Now flatten this pyramid and its sides will form 5 holes.
This 2D shape is equivalent to 3D 5-torus (yes, one can go easily from N-D to 2D in topology).
Pores are "dead ends", so no addition to N-ess.
Anthropological chauvinism? :)
They are "dead ends", no connections to other holes.
Do all mammals have tear ducts? I'm not sure.
I am not sure that all mammals have tear ducts.
For topology it does not matter. An opening is an opening even if it is tightly squeezed to a point.
Nope. It's 3-torus.
It's N-1 (-1 if for the last "hole").
Take wire tetrahedron and faltten it.
You forgot the nostrils. 3-torus is our final topological design.
Actually, no. I don't have any piercing and I believe I represent an average mammal in all its glory.
Counting my own orifices, it's more like 3-torus.
Ears, while having Eustachian tubes, are still closed by ear drums and urinary tract is a dead end.
I also believe the above applies not to mammals only but to all tetrapods.
Maybe to all vertebrae too but I am not sure how many open orifices fishes have.
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Sensors became better and better and unless you sit in an adiabatic room, we can get a lot about your state of body and mind.
As we approaching the singlularity, we even can predict your behaviour and then we can replicate you in our computers.
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