You'd be surprised. Just for grins I restored my (circa 1989) QIC-80 tapes a year ago. No problems at all.
Optical, I've had both DVD and CD bitrot, even on the old Kodak 'gold' discs.
...That said, your point is totally valid. Multiple archive copies is the safe way to go. If you want to be even more secure, go with PAR. PAR or RAR recovery records will tell you when chunks are corrupt and can allow you to recover an uncorrupted copy even if both archives are damaged.
You can't argue with Tape. It's been proven to last since the 1960's if kept in a climate controlled space (dry/cool). Just make sure to keep a spare tape drive handy (just ask NASA), because spare parts for 40 year old tape drives are surprisingly difficult to locate.
Optical isn't even close, assuming you're talking burned discs. Taiyo Yuden claims a 70 year shelf life, but they have only been around for what, 8 years tops?
Hard drives are an option if you've built a redundant array, but even with that you're still going to be out of luck if you burn up your raid controller.
Ironically US auto companies learned this in the late 1950s when Studebaker, Packard, and other car makers didn't pay money to retool and build different types of cars, while GM and Ford did decide to change and build cars with the times, such as muscle cars.
GM and Ford were large companies who could afford to retool every year, and those other companies couldn't? I'm sure they would have liked to if that were an option.
These days I don't see that (at an equivalent price point) GM and Ford are any worse than their competition. Just like any other brand they have good cars and bad cars.
Unless the idea spreads to the surrounding jurisdictions. Then to the state. Etc., etc.
As insane as the rest of California is, even we realize that SF is batshit crazy.
SF has a lot of the really good aquarium shops in the bay area, I guess they'll be moving out soon. For some reason you can't adopt those at the SPCA...
It's a fucking Ferrari-class car. Of course it's going to be expensive as fuck
Since when is that? It's roughly equivalent to a regular Elise but with an extra 700lb worth of batteries.
Also, am I the only one who finds it ironic that a company named Tesla has a failed business model? As much as Nikola Tesla virtually invented the 20th century, he was a terrible businessman and died a pauper.
Option lists, including final drive ratio, still exist with many options to choose from.
Custom battery options are unlikely due to tooling cost.
Yes, options exist, but it's nothing like it was in the before-time, back in the day you could order all kinds of crazy drive-train options (exhaust/carburetor(s)/intake/engine/transmission/suspension).
Now it's pretty much would you like the 4 cylinder package or the 6 cylinder package? Would you like to supersize that with alloy wheels? How about a cheesy Eddie Bauer trim package?
I agree that GM is unlikely to offer us an optional battery pack, but there's no reason the people making plug-in conversions for Priii couldn't offer one for this car too.
The first person who did the swap is another story, his was surely not as easy.
The only hard bit about it is hooking it all into the stock dash controls and exhaust manifold routing. Custom motor/transmission mounts are actually pretty easy to do.
And yes, old Jags are pretty cars, old Jags with bowties are pretty cars that don't spend half their time with your mechanic.
That the osmosis happens faster than the oxygen gets used up seems pretty cool to me - why can't we do that to stay underwater for extended periods?
Because we're a lot larger than those spiders? Tiny Asian women can scuba dive with 40cf cylinders longer than I can stay down with 72cf cylinders...coincidentally they're around twice as small as I am.
I'm quite good at regulating my breathing but I have twice as much tissue to keep oxygenated.
and the idea is that developing these technologies in the first place is incredibly difficult... or at least the perception that nuclear energy research is dangerous and expensive has been encouraged.
It was incredibly difficult...in the 1940's. I'm fairly sure the barrier to entry is a lot lower these days.
Somalian warlords wouldn't waste their time with nuclear bombs. For that kind of money they could arm a whole fleet of pirate vessels to ransom off container/passenger ships
...I'm sure potential terrorists would love an cheap supply of plutonium though. Not that they could build any sort of suitcase bomb, but a cargo container full of nukes would put a large dent in any of our seaports.
...lots of smaller countries would also enjoy this, since nukes = automatic pass by the U.N. It doesn't matter how screwed up your country is (hi Kim Jong!), if you've got nukes you aren't getting invaded unless you count drone strikes in Pakistan (who we've quite thoroughly bribed to ignore them)
The only part that seems to come from the hardware store is some glue and duct tape. The article mentions that originally all this stuff was mounted to some aluminum rods purchased at home depot, but the rods were replaced with carbon fiber parts. I don't think the source of those parts was mentioned.
Didn't you know carbon fiber was on aisle# 6?
Based on the awesome summary the high output lithium ion battery and charger clearly must come from a Dewalt 18-volt hammer-drill.
Like Java Applets, Silverlight is a lame duck. I'm surprised anyone used it.
There, I fixed it for you.
On the plus side, anyone who 'pigeonholed' themselves into Silverlight can transition over to writing regular windows apps very easily. Silverlight = WPF (well, a subset of it).
What a fantasy world you live in. Thorium reactors produce high level waste, the same as all reactors... just a different sort than light water reactors.
This is true if you're using a LWR reactor, but we've had breeder reactor technology for a long time now and thorium is inherently a safer (and vastly more abundant) material.
Regarding waste, breeder reactors of all sorts are very good at controlling that sort of thing...unfortunately
1. it's currently cheaper to just buy more enriched uranium than reprocess
2. they're awfully good at producing weapons grade plutonium
...so we're currently not building any. Pity that.
What do I want? I want what they
want...
(indicates P.O.W.'s)
And what every other guy who came
over here and spilled his guts and
gave everything he had wants... for
our country to love us as much as we
love it... That's what I want. And
that's what they wanted.
If rastafarians can't legally partake in their sacrament under "freedom of religion" I don't see how you can let an old pervert get away with raping a 14 year-old girl and call it "religious freedom".
The problem with this sort of thing, is that of zero tolerance. You know, that thing our government is ever so good at these days.
She was 17 and it was consensual. But that's also rape, unless you live in Kentucky. After that I was put in cell block B, now that was rape...
Paypass/Rfid chips can easily be zapped by a common household microwave. Now how do I do this with my phone?
Actually, I'm totally okay with this as long as it stays as an opt-in feature. (tie your credit card(s) into your phone). Once Verizon starts billing me randomly for pizzas and gas, that's when I don my Slashdot trademarked tinfoil hat.
Manual database download = press update button? fine. Manual database download = navigate through the vendors site looking for download-able updates = not fine. I can't think of any reason for this besides sloppy coding.
Corrupted updates completely disabling the AV protection until I happen to notice, also = not fine.
I used to be a big fan of Kaspersky, but their 2010 update is a real piece of junk. A failed update should not cause a corrupted database that it can't rollback from. It also should not give up and force you to manually download updates from their support website.
And yet this exact thing kept happening every few months like clockwork until I gave up and dumped it. When it worked, it worked very well, but dang.
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You'd be surprised. Just for grins I restored my (circa 1989) QIC-80 tapes a year ago. No problems at all.
...That said, your point is totally valid. Multiple archive copies is the safe way to go. If you want to be even more secure, go with PAR. PAR or RAR recovery records will tell you when chunks are corrupt and can allow you to recover an uncorrupted copy even if both archives are damaged.
Optical, I've had both DVD and CD bitrot, even on the old Kodak 'gold' discs.
You can't argue with Tape. It's been proven to last since the 1960's if kept in a climate controlled space (dry/cool). Just make sure to keep a spare tape drive handy (just ask NASA), because spare parts for 40 year old tape drives are surprisingly difficult to locate.
Optical isn't even close, assuming you're talking burned discs. Taiyo Yuden claims a 70 year shelf life, but they have only been around for what, 8 years tops?
Hard drives are an option if you've built a redundant array, but even with that you're still going to be out of luck if you burn up your raid controller.
Is China blocking Slashdot? I'm sure it is now.
GM and Ford were large companies who could afford to retool every year, and those other companies couldn't? I'm sure they would have liked to if that were an option.
These days I don't see that (at an equivalent price point) GM and Ford are any worse than their competition. Just like any other brand they have good cars and bad cars.
As insane as the rest of California is, even we realize that SF is batshit crazy.
SF has a lot of the really good aquarium shops in the bay area, I guess they'll be moving out soon. For some reason you can't adopt those at the SPCA...
Since when is that? It's roughly equivalent to a regular Elise but with an extra 700lb worth of batteries.
Also, am I the only one who finds it ironic that a company named Tesla has a failed business model?
As much as Nikola Tesla virtually invented the 20th century, he was a terrible businessman and died a pauper.
Yes, options exist, but it's nothing like it was in the before-time, back in the day you could order all kinds of crazy drive-train options (exhaust/carburetor(s)/intake/engine/transmission/suspension).
Now it's pretty much would you like the 4 cylinder package or the 6 cylinder package? Would you like to supersize that with alloy wheels? How about a cheesy Eddie Bauer trim package?
I agree that GM is unlikely to offer us an optional battery pack, but there's no reason the people making plug-in conversions for Priii couldn't offer one for this car too.
I love the power-glove. It's so bad!
The only hard bit about it is hooking it all into the stock dash controls and exhaust manifold routing. Custom motor/transmission mounts are actually pretty easy to do.
And yes, old Jags are pretty cars, old Jags with bowties are pretty cars that don't spend half their time with your mechanic.
Because we're a lot larger than those spiders? Tiny Asian women can scuba dive with 40cf cylinders longer than I can stay down with 72cf cylinders...coincidentally they're around twice as small as I am.
I'm quite good at regulating my breathing but I have twice as much tissue to keep oxygenated.
It was incredibly difficult...in the 1940's. I'm fairly sure the barrier to entry is a lot lower these days.
...I'm sure potential terrorists would love an cheap supply of plutonium though. Not that they could build any sort of suitcase bomb, but a cargo container full of nukes would put a large dent in any of our seaports.
...lots of smaller countries would also enjoy this, since nukes = automatic pass by the U.N. It doesn't matter how screwed up your country is (hi Kim Jong!), if you've got nukes you aren't getting invaded unless you count drone strikes in Pakistan (who we've quite thoroughly bribed to ignore them)
Somalian warlords wouldn't waste their time with nuclear bombs. For that kind of money they could arm a whole fleet of pirate vessels to ransom off container/passenger ships
Didn't you know carbon fiber was on aisle# 6?
Based on the awesome summary the high output lithium ion battery and charger clearly must come from a Dewalt 18-volt hammer-drill.
Like Java Applets, Silverlight is a lame duck. I'm surprised anyone used it.
There, I fixed it for you.
On the plus side, anyone who 'pigeonholed' themselves into Silverlight can transition over to writing regular windows apps very easily. Silverlight = WPF (well, a subset of it).
This is true if you're using a LWR reactor, but we've had breeder reactor technology for a long time now and thorium is inherently a safer (and vastly more abundant) material.
...so we're currently not building any. Pity that.
Regarding waste, breeder reactors of all sorts are very good at controlling that sort of thing...unfortunately
1. it's currently cheaper to just buy more enriched uranium than reprocess
2. they're awfully good at producing weapons grade plutonium
What do I want? I want what they
want...
(indicates P.O.W.'s)
And what every other guy who came
over here and spilled his guts and
gave everything he had wants... for
our country to love us as much as we
love it... That's what I want. And
that's what they wanted.
So apparently you don't go to movies, listen to music or watch television either. It's almost absurd how much of our older content is owned by them.
The problem with this sort of thing, is that of zero tolerance. You know, that thing our government is ever so good at these days.
She was 17 and it was consensual. But that's also rape, unless you live in Kentucky. After that I was put in cell block B, now that was rape...
Paypass/Rfid chips can easily be zapped by a common household microwave. Now how do I do this with my phone?
Actually, I'm totally okay with this as long as it stays as an opt-in feature. (tie your credit card(s) into your phone). Once Verizon starts billing me randomly for pizzas and gas, that's when I don my Slashdot trademarked tinfoil hat.
Any politician not vetted by the party majority faces at best non-stop ridicule, and generally just gets no mention whatsoever in the news media.
Ross Perot had some good ideas too. He was kind of a nutjob, but at least he recognized we couldn't keep borrowing money from China forever...
I know this show was intended to be over the top, but the whole premise is cringe-worthy.
example
IMDB
Geohot says yes?
Manual database download = press update button? fine. Manual database download = navigate through the vendors site looking for download-able updates = not fine. I can't think of any reason for this besides sloppy coding. Corrupted updates completely disabling the AV protection until I happen to notice, also = not fine.
I used to be a big fan of Kaspersky, but their 2010 update is a real piece of junk. A failed update should not cause a corrupted database that it can't rollback from. It also should not give up and force you to manually download updates from their support website.
And yet this exact thing kept happening every few months like clockwork until I gave up and dumped it. When it worked, it worked very well, but dang.
You have functional public transportation and shorter commutes? Also that free healthcare thing.