There are numerous problems with tape. I will list just a few:
* Tapes are sequential, and in order to list a directory, you need to read in the entire tape, THEN you get the listing * No random access (see above) so as the tape seeks your program/stream/process will stop and wait - and wait, and wait * Tapes are unreliable - and only become more unreliable with each use because of media dropouts, wear, not to mention tape head wear and gradual magnetization
Want a SAN? Hard disks are very cheap now. Build a cheap server using a hardware SAS RAID controller - or heck, even a RocketRAID hybrid/"fakeRAID" controller will be vastly superior to tape.
It's not that people do not like change - they do not like change for the sake of change, and they don't want their workflow to be a pain in the ass. To this day I STILL get people complaining about the Office ribbon, because it obfuscates features in office and requires more (not fewer) clicks to do what they want. For others at that same client site, employees deal with it by using LibreOffice or OpenOffice instead.
I suspect that when there is a serious issue with machines Windows 7 won't run on, Windows 9 (or whatever Windows-after-8 is called) will be available.
And thusly, the every-other-release-of-Windows-doesn't-suck pattern will continue. Windows 8 will be the new Vista, and Windows 9 will be the release undoing all the annoying shit Vista/8 introduced to save Microsoft's market share (again).
According to the article, criticism of the TSA comes primarily from 'Internet sites, where reporting standards are generally not at the same level as newspapers, where reporters are taught to consider what is told to them with skepticism and to seek responses to charges.'
Bullocks. Newspapers by and large are either liberal moonbat (Boston Globe, NYT, etc) or Neocon (Boston Herald) propaganda, with little regard shown to the truth of the matter. There are a few exceptions here and there which remain mostly objective (Wall Street Journal) without turning every story into op-eds or taking quotes out of context but the objective newspapers are few and far between.
The patent system was quite literally designed for that. Patent thickets, licensing companies and the ilk were extremely common during the rise of the industrial age from things like loom technology, to sewing machines, to industrial controllers.
No, it was not set up for that. It was designed for protecting the little guy who is inventing and producing tangible goods from big companies copying him and driving him out of business. The patent thicket you speak of hinders innovation; it does not promote development of useful arts and sciences.
populate it with 4GB drives and create two RAID5 (or one RAID6) array, then you've got 24 or 28 TB of backup space, without having to change drives or break up your backup into smaller chunks.
But really, your backup methodology is broken; you need to organize the data into manageable chunks because aside from a large dedicated backup server/SAN, there is no reliable (don't tell me tape is reliable) backup solution for a such a large quantity of data in a single chunk.
What I do for backups: in my 24-bay server I have eight large drives in a (HARDWARE) RAID5 array (were 4TB drives available at the time I'd have gone RAID6) and rsync the virtualized server contents to that, then archive them into tarballs, and send copies of them across the LAN to another server that is running (HARDWARE) RAID5 as well. Every once in a while I back up the critical data (source, scripts, financial data, production web sites,/etc, and so forth but not the program binaries nor system binaries which are easily recreated or reinstalled, respectively) to optical media and external hard drives.
So what I have in summary is: * Massive server with a backup array separate from the production array * Separate backup server running another array (again, using a quality HARDWARE RAID controller. Safeguard your data and don't bother with Intel, Adaptec, Promise, or Highpoint "hybrid" RAID) * Periodic backups of non-recreatable data to USB drives and optical media that are moved off site.
I just have the hardest time getting used to seeing people spell math with a "s" on the end of it...I only see it done here on slashdot...my eye is immediately drawn to it as a spelling error or typo.
It is we Americans who misspell/mispronounce it.
Chalk it up to our bastardiz^Hsing the English language here in America. We have standardiz^Hed the dumbing down of many words, ignoring the subtle colo(u)red inflection of various combinations of letters which is reflected in the correct British English, but not in our bastardised form of the language. We have Noah Webster (of Webster's Dictionary fame) to blame for that, because he felt it important to simplify spelling of words, rather than to clearly indicate proper pronounciation.
In other words, Noah Webster exhibited modern Americans' laziness and bent toward the dumbing down of education a couple of centuries before everyone else, so he was a pioneer of sorts.;) I'm only half joking here btw.
* The plugin container sucks. It can still slow Firefox (the whole app, not just one tab) to a crawl, especially on sites with Flash. Other browsers seem unaffected.
The pros:
* The UI and extensions make Firefox for me. If it weren't for the extensions I'd have been using Chrome for a while now.
conditions like joint pain don't exactly warrant unproven treatments in the same way that certain cancers might.
Right, right. It's better to put someone on opiates to manage the pain and send them driving home, or to inject them with cortizone and cause them to bloat up - and if the patient is female to develop hirsutism. Yes, it's far better to do that than to try something which has a very high potential of actually rebuilding the cartilage.
> Over in not-Apple-land, we've been doing video and audio digitally over USB for quite awhile. And with USB 3.0, at peak speeds of 5 GB/sec, there's really little reason not to.
Really?
* Connecting to a hotel television room to play Yo Gabba Gabba for your toddler * Connecting to an AV receiver using impedance-matched line level audio rather than the headphone output * Convenience for a dock, where the audio cables (to your receiver, or desktop speakers, etc) can be connected to the dock, enabling the single connection to do everything
As far as mini-hdmi goes, what's next? Yet another additional proprietary port for analog AV? No, the multi-pin port with an adapter is just fine, otherwise, you're going to bulk up and clutter the phone. The reason Apple made the decision they did was it enables integration with a wide variety of applications without bulking up or cluttering the phone.
Easy: Jack Daniels wasn't out to troll $Small_Business for easy money. They're just performing duties required to protect their marks.
And yes, their handling of the situation is very classy indeed, and deserves recognition. If I were a drinker I'd go pick up a case in response to this.
I am all for the bigger screen. In fact I wish the upcoming iPhone would boast a wider screen (as viewed when held in portrait orientation) as well as taller. Why? Because I read eBooks on my phone - in PDF format. I convert everything to PDF since it is more portable than proprietary formats, allowing me to read on my notebook (regardless of the OS I boot), my iPhone, and even my now-ancient PocketPC.
The slightly larger form factor doesn't bother me. If I wanted a smaller phone and didn't care about screen size, I'd get a feature phone. Having the choice of a larger screen is a good thing because then it is actually available if I want it.
Why doesn't it bother me? I still remember my first cellphone, which was analog; a big chunky NEC (and I paid about $1.10 per minute for local minutes once I went over my 20 minute per month plan's allocation). Friends who were earlier adopters who got cellphones when they were still in high school had "bag phones" which was carried - yep, you guessed it - in a bag, where the handset was larger than a desktop phone "receiver"/handset and the transceiver/phone itself was about the size of a 15" desktop replacement laptop (and local minutes averaged $1.50/minute and at the time I don't think any "free" minutes were included).
ALL of today's cellphones are pretty darn small - and I look at my iPhone more as a pocket-sized Internet-enabled unix box that just happens to provide telephone functionality. It is something that only sci-fi writers could dream of even up through the '90s.
Factory HID ballasts are 35W each, so you're looking at 70W for headlamps.
Some vehicles (Audi R8, Audi A8, Lexus LS600H, Cadillac Escalade, some motorcycles, ) feature LED headlamps but there are problems with LED headlamp design - mainly cooling (see http://www.caranddriver.com/features/2010-audi-r8-led-headlights ) and collimation/focus (it's not a single-point light source like HID, and it's not a filament like halogen incandescent, but an array of LEDs) but if a headlamp assembly is designed from the beginning to use LEDs it's not a problem.
It took a bit of searching but I found that one of VW's concept cars uses Osram's new headlamp module which requires only 19W, and Osram expects to get it down to 15W in a few years without sacrificing light output.
Good news, everyone! I just broke out the Cool-O-Meter and iPad reads over 40 Megafonzies, while the Galaxy Tab registers a lower reading than Zoidberg.
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Good thing they're not provisioned by AT&T or Comcast, otherwise NASA would have to contend with artificial bandwidth caps. ;)
There are numerous problems with tape. I will list just a few:
* Tapes are sequential, and in order to list a directory, you need to read in the entire tape, THEN you get the listing
* No random access (see above) so as the tape seeks your program/stream/process will stop and wait - and wait, and wait
* Tapes are unreliable - and only become more unreliable with each use because of media dropouts, wear, not to mention tape head wear and gradual magnetization
Want a SAN? Hard disks are very cheap now. Build a cheap server using a hardware SAS RAID controller - or heck, even a RocketRAID hybrid/"fakeRAID" controller will be vastly superior to tape.
Good-bye Moto
It's not that people do not like change - they do not like change for the sake of change, and they don't want their workflow to be a pain in the ass. To this day I STILL get people complaining about the Office ribbon, because it obfuscates features in office and requires more (not fewer) clicks to do what they want. For others at that same client site, employees deal with it by using LibreOffice or OpenOffice instead.
And thusly, the every-other-release-of-Windows-doesn't-suck pattern will continue. Windows 8 will be the new Vista, and Windows 9 will be the release undoing all the annoying shit Vista/8 introduced to save Microsoft's market share (again).
They want their prior art back, and also referred us to BootP+TFTP(or)NFS and similar diskless workstation schemes which predate PXE by decades.
Bullocks. Newspapers by and large are either liberal moonbat (Boston Globe, NYT, etc) or Neocon (Boston Herald) propaganda, with little regard shown to the truth of the matter. There are a few exceptions here and there which remain mostly objective (Wall Street Journal) without turning every story into op-eds or taking quotes out of context but the objective newspapers are few and far between.
Thank God for downgrade rights. :-)
No, it was not set up for that. It was designed for protecting the little guy who is inventing and producing tangible goods from big companies copying him and driving him out of business. The patent thicket you speak of hinders innovation; it does not promote development of useful arts and sciences.
You buy one of these:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816322007
populate it with 4GB drives and create two RAID5 (or one RAID6) array, then you've got 24 or 28 TB of backup space, without having to change drives or break up your backup into smaller chunks.
But really, your backup methodology is broken; you need to organize the data into manageable chunks because aside from a large dedicated backup server/SAN, there is no reliable (don't tell me tape is reliable) backup solution for a such a large quantity of data in a single chunk.
What I do for backups: in my 24-bay server I have eight large drives in a (HARDWARE) RAID5 array (were 4TB drives available at the time I'd have gone RAID6) and rsync the virtualized server contents to that, then archive them into tarballs, and send copies of them across the LAN to another server that is running (HARDWARE) RAID5 as well. Every once in a while I back up the critical data (source, scripts, financial data, production web sites, /etc, and so forth but not the program binaries nor system binaries which are easily recreated or reinstalled, respectively) to optical media and external hard drives.
So what I have in summary is:
* Massive server with a backup array separate from the production array
* Separate backup server running another array (again, using a quality HARDWARE RAID controller. Safeguard your data and don't bother with Intel, Adaptec, Promise, or Highpoint "hybrid" RAID)
* Periodic backups of non-recreatable data to USB drives and optical media that are moved off site.
It is we Americans who misspell/mispronounce it.
Chalk it up to our bastardiz^Hsing the English language here in America. We have standardiz^Hed the dumbing down of many words, ignoring the subtle colo(u)red inflection of various combinations of letters which is reflected in the correct British English, but not in our bastardised form of the language. We have Noah Webster (of Webster's Dictionary fame) to blame for that, because he felt it important to simplify spelling of words, rather than to clearly indicate proper pronounciation.
In other words, Noah Webster exhibited modern Americans' laziness and bent toward the dumbing down of education a couple of centuries before everyone else, so he was a pioneer of sorts. ;) I'm only half joking here btw.
I wish I had mod points today. Remember the joke about classic Jaguars? The headlight switch has three settings: off, dim, and flicker.
The cons first:
* The plugin container sucks. It can still slow Firefox (the whole app, not just one tab) to a crawl, especially on sites with Flash. Other browsers seem unaffected.
The pros:
* The UI and extensions make Firefox for me. If it weren't for the extensions I'd have been using Chrome for a while now.
Right, right. It's better to put someone on opiates to manage the pain and send them driving home, or to inject them with cortizone and cause them to bloat up - and if the patient is female to develop hirsutism. Yes, it's far better to do that than to try something which has a very high potential of actually rebuilding the cartilage.
The sonic booms from the Concords flying in and out of JFK could be heard all the way from Rhode Island. :-)
> Over in not-Apple-land, we've been doing video and audio digitally over USB for quite awhile. And with USB 3.0, at peak speeds of 5 GB/sec, there's really little reason not to.
Really?
* Connecting to a hotel television room to play Yo Gabba Gabba for your toddler
* Connecting to an AV receiver using impedance-matched line level audio rather than the headphone output
* Convenience for a dock, where the audio cables (to your receiver, or desktop speakers, etc) can be connected to the dock, enabling the single connection to do everything
As far as mini-hdmi goes, what's next? Yet another additional proprietary port for analog AV? No, the multi-pin port with an adapter is just fine, otherwise, you're going to bulk up and clutter the phone. The reason Apple made the decision they did was it enables integration with a wide variety of applications without bulking up or cluttering the phone.
It should be changed to an image of a fat man throwing a chair.
No line-level audio, no HDMI, no composite video, and so on. In case you missed it, Apple has a cult following in AV.
Easy: Jack Daniels wasn't out to troll $Small_Business for easy money. They're just performing duties required to protect their marks.
And yes, their handling of the situation is very classy indeed, and deserves recognition. If I were a drinker I'd go pick up a case in response to this.
It's better than the ever-smaller phone trend:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/niallkennedy/856357878/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR6oEGr7fBw
I am all for the bigger screen. In fact I wish the upcoming iPhone would boast a wider screen (as viewed when held in portrait orientation) as well as taller. Why? Because I read eBooks on my phone - in PDF format. I convert everything to PDF since it is more portable than proprietary formats, allowing me to read on my notebook (regardless of the OS I boot), my iPhone, and even my now-ancient PocketPC.
The slightly larger form factor doesn't bother me. If I wanted a smaller phone and didn't care about screen size, I'd get a feature phone. Having the choice of a larger screen is a good thing because then it is actually available if I want it.
Why doesn't it bother me? I still remember my first cellphone, which was analog; a big chunky NEC (and I paid about $1.10 per minute for local minutes once I went over my 20 minute per month plan's allocation). Friends who were earlier adopters who got cellphones when they were still in high school had "bag phones" which was carried - yep, you guessed it - in a bag, where the handset was larger than a desktop phone "receiver"/handset and the transceiver/phone itself was about the size of a 15" desktop replacement laptop (and local minutes averaged $1.50/minute and at the time I don't think any "free" minutes were included).
ALL of today's cellphones are pretty darn small - and I look at my iPhone more as a pocket-sized Internet-enabled unix box that just happens to provide telephone functionality. It is something that only sci-fi writers could dream of even up through the '90s.
That would be B16M00B5 so it doesn't work in hexadecimal.
Factory HID ballasts are 35W each, so you're looking at 70W for headlamps.
Some vehicles (Audi R8, Audi A8, Lexus LS600H, Cadillac Escalade, some motorcycles, ) feature LED headlamps but there are problems with LED headlamp design - mainly cooling (see http://www.caranddriver.com/features/2010-audi-r8-led-headlights ) and collimation/focus (it's not a single-point light source like HID, and it's not a filament like halogen incandescent, but an array of LEDs) but if a headlamp assembly is designed from the beginning to use LEDs it's not a problem.
It took a bit of searching but I found that one of VW's concept cars uses Osram's new headlamp module which requires only 19W, and Osram expects to get it down to 15W in a few years without sacrificing light output.
I wanted to make a post from my electric car but I ran out of powe*&^%^@*&^#####
Good news, everyone! I just broke out the Cool-O-Meter and iPad reads over 40 Megafonzies, while the Galaxy Tab registers a lower reading than Zoidberg.