I believe and embrace science, but I am also aware of it's own limitations. Science, like computers, is merely a tool - good for some jobs but not for all.
don't forget the unexplained brain features that haven't been documented because science can't explain them - like twins feeling what the other feels and people with transplanted organs perceiving memories of the donor. They can't even completely explain how memories are created.
How can science can't imitate what it can't yet explain and measure? Our brains connect with reality in many ways our conscious self can't perceive.
I am using it with Linux raid 6 on CentOS 5.3, running as an iSCSI target without problems. It is used for storing media for a graphic design company. Two of them are installed, one as a master that is used all day and the other as a backup that copies overnight. Additionally, an extra monthly backup is done by an external company every 15 days and stored at a different location in a safe box.
Many small/medium companies need just a huge storage with a regular speed like this one, why should they pay more for features/security they don't need?
I've used this kind of configurations since 2004 (with 250Gb HD back then) and I have never needed to recover any backup, just replaced broken hard drives. Gaming motherboards are pretty fast and can resist a lot of heat (they are prepared for Quad-SLI heating monsters), the Gigabyte I linked on parent post even has 2 BIOS. And, if it breaks, local store will replace it very fast - which doesn't happen with big companies because they don't keep 10k equipment on local storage on South American countries, they import them for every sale.
you can buy motherboards with 10 SATA ports nowadays. GigaByte sells this model with 10 SATA. That mobo combined with one of those gamers 800+ PSU (the ones used for quad SLI) will easily handle 10 SATA drive for cheap.
Naive or not, it's an EASY solution, it's not like disposing nuclear waste.
Disposing trash in the correct way is a priority that all governments will need to promote & enforce in a few years. Initiative should be starting from the nerd crowd.
Lending your laptop once in a while is OK, specially when you are truly helping someone who's laptop got infected by a virus or some other problem. Helping others in emergencies is good for friendships and enhancing relations with colleagues.
On the other side, providing unlimited access to your laptop is dangerous for your data and equipment, and saying "you are rude" if you deny their petition is just a psychological technique to manipulate - "psycho-bullying".
Say no and explain the reasons politely, and offer them you will help them if they plan to buy a laptop. If they tell you you are being rude after that, it means they don't know what 'Friendship' means.
on Crysis Wars running DX10 with "Good Graphics", AA 2x, 1280 x 1024?
If it doesn't then I don't want it, I better use those 100$ + a few bux more for a used Xbox 360. Crysis is one of the few games that make PC gaming worthy, if it can't run it then it's worthless for gamers.
Copyright laws where intended to promote creativity from artists, but by extending the years they can suck money out of one job they demonstrate they just want more money for less work.
Current social structure won't be capable of maintaining that kind of endless resource redirection. This copyright and intellectual property nonse will have to end someday, and it's not gonna be nice for anyone.
Crysis is a much complex game than, for example, Prince of Persia. In Crysis you get not only the a state-of-the-art 3d engine, but a platform for making your own maps and even designing and programming your own characters and almost everything in the game.
The Church teaches that sex and reproduction go hand in hand.
Your church teaches that because they are blind to see that the main consequence of sex in humans is a flood of endorphines (aka pleasure), not fertilization. Copulating for pleasure and fun has been documented and studied in other species as well
It's common for your church to teach believes that oppose to logic and science (remember Galileo?).
Peru's glaciars are melting very fast. I saw them first time 15 years ago, last time last year, and I can tell you THEY ARE ALMOST GONE.
Sorry for not posting pics (go to google images and search for "pastoruri glacier" if you want) but I get sad and depressed when I see them. We humans are so SO stupid.
When they do a safety inspection on a car or on a house they normally tell you in advance when it will be (unless someone reported a violation), and they will check the engine/breaks/walls/stairs/etc, not mess around with what is on the glove compartment or your drawers.
I think that is a bit different than cracking your door and seize your electronics because you use Linux.
We also need to realize that the safety inspections might eventually save your (or my) life - that is where our rights end and other people rights and freedoms begin.
1. Cobol programs where written so bad and confusing that probably only the original programmer (he was the original maintainer) was able to maintain it.
2. The company was grabbed by the balls by the provider, who - along with the maintainer -, kept on saying "we can't assure that if you migrate this all will work fine".
and, since it was a "critical" application, we never migrated it. Managers never minded that in a demo I showed them the response with PostgreSQL was about 8 times faster.
that is what cobol was and is good for, grabbing a company by the balls and make it pay money to a provider for eternity. It's like having your main software written in obfuscated perl.
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"Formal scientists" don't even consider Psychology a science, but "an academic and applied discipline involving the systematic, and often scientific, study of human/animal mental functions and behavior".
Since psychology doesn't comply as "real science", how can "scientists" duplicate the machine that controls most of human behaviour?
Brain itself operates on the edge of chaos, it is also the organ that controls the minds of philosophers, musicians, painters, and artists. Computers only emulate "left-side" brain functions - they "take pieces, line them up, and arrange them in a logical order; then it draws conclusions" - they can beat Einstein on calculus but they can't create art and inventions as Mozart or Da Vinci.
I believe and embrace science, but I am also aware of it's own limitations. Science, like computers, is merely a tool - good for some jobs but not for all.
don't forget the unexplained brain features that haven't been documented because science can't explain them - like twins feeling what the other feels and people with transplanted organs perceiving memories of the donor. They can't even completely explain how memories are created.
How can science can't imitate what it can't yet explain and measure? Our brains connect with reality in many ways our conscious self can't perceive.
"Have you ever wanted to jump into a book and live inside that world? Here is your chance."
medievia.com is still up and running, you might like that community.
I am using it with Linux raid 6 on CentOS 5.3, running as an iSCSI target without problems. It is used for storing media for a graphic design company. Two of them are installed, one as a master that is used all day and the other as a backup that copies overnight.
Additionally, an extra monthly backup is done by an external company every 15 days and stored at a different location in a safe box.
Many small/medium companies need just a huge storage with a regular speed like this one, why should they pay more for features/security they don't need?
I've used this kind of configurations since 2004 (with 250Gb HD back then) and I have never needed to recover any backup, just replaced broken hard drives. Gaming motherboards are pretty fast and can resist a lot of heat (they are prepared for Quad-SLI heating monsters), the Gigabyte I linked on parent post even has 2 BIOS. And, if it breaks, local store will replace it very fast - which doesn't happen with big companies because they don't keep 10k equipment on local storage on South American countries, they import them for every sale.
you can buy motherboards with 10 SATA ports nowadays. GigaByte sells this model with 10 SATA. That mobo combined with one of those gamers 800+ PSU (the ones used for quad SLI) will easily handle 10 SATA drive for cheap.
Naive or not, it's an EASY solution, it's not like disposing nuclear waste.
Disposing trash in the correct way is a priority that all governments will need to promote & enforce in a few years. Initiative should be starting from the nerd crowd.
and compact fluorescents are still more economical? why should we change then?
just because of a more pleasing spectrum? The "mercury" issue should be easily solved by disposing the bulbs in the correct way (i.e. recycle).
Lending your laptop once in a while is OK, specially when you are truly helping someone who's laptop got infected by a virus or some other problem. Helping others in emergencies is good for friendships and enhancing relations with colleagues.
On the other side, providing unlimited access to your laptop is dangerous for your data and equipment, and saying "you are rude" if you deny their petition is just a psychological technique to manipulate - "psycho-bullying".
Say no and explain the reasons politely, and offer them you will help them if they plan to buy a laptop. If they tell you you are being rude after that, it means they don't know what 'Friendship' means.
Under the same logic they should also ban, prohibit and retire from the market:
1. US currency
2. Drinking water
3. Air
because all of them contain traces of cocaine.
on Crysis Wars running DX10 with "Good Graphics", AA 2x, 1280 x 1024?
If it doesn't then I don't want it, I better use those 100$ + a few bux more for a used Xbox 360. Crysis is one of the few games that make PC gaming worthy, if it can't run it then it's worthless for gamers.
GTA4 is poorly optimized for PC, it's one of the ugliest ports of an Xbox game I've ever seen.
Copyright laws where intended to promote creativity from artists, but by extending the years they can suck money out of one job they demonstrate they just want more money for less work.
Current social structure won't be capable of maintaining that kind of endless resource redirection. This copyright and intellectual property nonse will have to end someday, and it's not gonna be nice for anyone.
With PostgreSQL you can write stored procedures in different languages, and they will run as fast as if the function was run from a shell script.
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/xplang.html -- There's more info
Crysis is a much complex game than, for example, Prince of Persia. In Crysis you get not only the a state-of-the-art 3d engine, but a platform for making your own maps and even designing and programming your own characters and almost everything in the game.
which means it will generate CO2. Maybe less than gasoline, but on the other side it is VERY explosive and has to be stored in high pressure tanks.
What happened with wind/solar/hidrogen based technologies? shouldn't we be researching on them?
The Church teaches that sex and reproduction go hand in hand.
Your church teaches that because they are blind to see that the main consequence of sex in humans is a flood of endorphines (aka pleasure), not fertilization. Copulating for pleasure and fun has been documented and studied in other species as well
It's common for your church to teach believes that oppose to logic and science (remember Galileo?).
If there were ever a sign that Jesus was back I would think that sign would be water vanishing all over the world.
That's the sign of humans being irresponsible. BTW water is not vanishing, it is evaporating and will eventually fall over you.
Why do humans like to blame gods or supernatural powers for their own stupidity?
Peru's glaciars are melting very fast. I saw them first time 15 years ago, last time last year, and I can tell you THEY ARE ALMOST GONE.
Sorry for not posting pics (go to google images and search for "pastoruri glacier" if you want) but I get sad and depressed when I see them. We humans are so SO stupid.
That amount of gold is a joke compared to the amount of Inca's gold that went to Spain's coffins.
Did you visit the "Gold Museum" at Lima - Peru?
That is just a tiny microscopic amount of the Inca's Empire gold.
It's Lieutenant Commander Data trying to conquer a Mainframe
When they do a safety inspection on a car or on a house they normally tell you in advance when it will be (unless someone reported a violation), and they will check the engine/breaks/walls/stairs/etc, not mess around with what is on the glove compartment or your drawers.
I think that is a bit different than cracking your door and seize your electronics because you use Linux.
We also need to realize that the safety inspections might eventually save your (or my) life - that is where our rights end and other people rights and freedoms begin.
mod parent up!
That is so true, role playing is almost dead in 4th edition.
If you, reader, don't know what I am referring to, then you are not playing the game as it was originally intended.
Now it's a good vs. evil hack & slash game, instead of the reality simulator it was meant to be.
Thanks to Mr. Arneson I spent endless quality hours with the guys that have been my best friends for almost two decades.
Now you can play along with Mr. Gygax for all eternity.
Rest in Peace.
1. Cobol programs where written so bad and confusing that probably only the original programmer (he was the original maintainer) was able to maintain it.
2. The company was grabbed by the balls by the provider, who - along with the maintainer -, kept on saying "we can't assure that if you migrate this all will work fine".
and, since it was a "critical" application, we never migrated it. Managers never minded that in a demo I showed them the response with PostgreSQL was about 8 times faster.
that is what cobol was and is good for, grabbing a company by the balls and make it pay money to a provider for eternity. It's like having your main software written in obfuscated perl.
owned by Cesar Millan.
He is a very powerful magician too.