I'm going to give that a try. I've been looking for something to handle the bare metal aspect of restoration. I do my main backups to crashplan, but that doesn't really provide me with a convenient way of doing a baremetal back up.
For Linux it's not too hard to go from a base install + backup to one that's where I left it, Windows though is a PITA due to the architecture without jumping through some special hoops.
The reason why people buy it is because the oil industry has successfully stalled efforts to replace it with something that's less polluting and renewable.
- and you call ME an idiot with this IDIOTIC assertion?
What a bunch of nonsense. Do you know why people are still using oil and coal and gas today? It's because it's the CHEAPEST and most abundant, easiest to use, easiest to transport, easiest to store and easiest to handle solution.
Oil is running out, we're using it more quickly than it is being replenished. It's cheapest and most convenient primarily because we're subsidizing it heavily. Also, gas and oil are not easily stored and not easiest handled. I take it you haven't been paying attention to the times when gas stations go up in flames because somebody was getting in and out of their car and static electricity caused the fumes to ignite? Or when it leaks into the groundwater because a tank started leaking or how about the various oil spills that poison our fisheries?
Eh. There's a LOT of oil shale and even more coal reserves lying around the country.
With good reason, people have been trying to tap those resources for decades now and nobody has managed to get it right at a cost that's affordable. And in all likelihood those resources will be there when the last humans walk the Earth as it's not likely that the technology will be there before we ditch oil for something renewable.
What concerns me is that I live in a state that's right on the ocean, so, all that crap water coming from red states up river from me has the chance to screw up our crops and our drinking water. Fortunately, the city owns the entire water shed so those chemicals shouldn't be getting into our water, but there's a good chance that they'll end up polluting the fisheries in other states.
That's not informative. What you're failing to comprehend is that there are popular issues and there are important issues, some popular issues aren't important and some important issues are popular. If we didn't force people to give to unpopular but important issues we'd be screwed.
As for your line about liberals and taxes, I suppose that during the 2000 to 2006 period where the GOP controlled everything that the IRS stopped throwing people in jail for tax evasion. Wait, you say that tax evasion laws were enforced even then?
Ultimately, the difference between liberals and conservatives generally is that the liberals actually care about the country and those the reside in it, whereas the GOP mainly cares about the rich and appearing to love the country. Hence why you see such a concerted effort by the GOP to burn the country down to save the rich from having to pay taxes in proportion to the benefit they get from not burning the country down. The rich more than the poor ought to be pissed by the way the GOP is acting.
Idiot. The reason why people buy it is because the oil industry has successfully stalled efforts to replace it with something that's less polluting and renewable. It's all well and good to not want to buy oil, but if you have to drive a car or use products made from oil because there aren't alternatives, then that's precisely what you're going to do. Around here, I had to drive to work one day out of the week because the buses wouldn't be able to get me downtown for start of work at 6:00 am.
Most people don't care how their vehicle is filled so long as it's affordable and gets them where they want to go. Subsidizing oil is just about helping oil producers remain profitable even as it becomes more and more clear that we need to transition away from it.
B&N doesn't lock users into using their ebooks on only B&N sanctioned products, which is ultimately what this is about. I happen to have a Nook and Amazon is the only major ebookstore that doesn't allow me to buy from them and use the books without conversion and possibly stripping the DRM. B&N uses the same protection scheme and format as most of the ebookstores and so if I get sick of using a Nook, my next ebook reader could be made by somebody else entirely.
Ultimately, I have a feeling that it's more about Amazon using this deal to prevent their customers from using the books legally, remember B&N isn't just a book seller now, B&N sells ereaders and I'm guessing that they want to protect that as well.
I buy from O'Reilly if I have any option of doing so, their policies and upgrades are superior to any others I've seen. Plus they do things like have bundle discounts for buying both the paper and electronic version, upgrade discounts and from time to time they provide corrected versions of their ebooks for free.
It's not undermining their promise. It shows me that B&N is serious about not carrying anything that they can't sell through their ebookstore. On top of that, it shows me that they're going to fight with publishers that are preventing them from doing it.
In the long run B&N knows where things are headed, it's not a surprise that they started selling Kindles, the industry is going to be heavily represented in the future by ebooks. It's just somewhat surprising to see a major corporation like B&N with the foresight to get off the tracks before the obsolescence train hits it.
You're missing the point. DC opted to cut ties with B&N even though Nook Color has been out for nearly a year at this point. As for the difference between a painting and a photo of a painting, that's really not the same as the difference between a comic and a digital comic. As somebody that has spent some time painting and has some idea about printing, you don't lose anywhere near as much by digitizing a comic as you do a painting.
If you were comparing fine art prints with the digitized ones, you would have a point, but the colors that they're using in comics are chosen to reproduce easily, which greatly diminishes the choices they use. The rest of it is more a matter of conditioning than actual superiority.
Epub is a standard format and apart from the DRM is available for porting to any OS where people want to access the books. Calibre for instance already runs on Windows, Linux, OSX and FreeBSD.
Not really, I for one support them sticking to their guns. One of the reasons that I buy most of my books from them is that any book I see on the shelf at their stores is one that I can buy for my Nook, or really any other device that supports epubs.
B&N isn't a small bookseller, they are one of if not the largest book sellers in the world. Pulling the books from their shelves because they can't sell them online is ultimately good for everybody and a bit surprising. Given that this means they can't make money off the dead tree editions.
The thing about Amazon is that they have yet to change their devices to work with the standard format that everybody else uses, consequently the only way to buy those books and have them work on a Nook Color involves converting them with a third party utility. I don't know if they have DRM, but I'm guessing there will be, if they're important enough for an exclusivity agreement the odds are good that they're important enough for DC to insist upon DRM.
Doesn't matter. It's like the time the school searched my brother. They didn't have legal grounds to believe that he specifically stole anything from the other students, and they didn't get the consent of the parents either before doing it.
School officials regularly violate the rights of the students when convenient all the while ignoring more serious problems where a similar level of vigilance might be justifiable.
Sure they are, the kids aren't the ones that are getting to opt out, it's their parents that are doing it. You're argument is that because it's not the state that's forcing the kids that the kids aren't being forced. Which is just ridiculous.
That really hasn't changed. If you can convince a publisher to grant you and advance on the book, it greatly increases the amount of time that most folks have to revise their books. Under the old system they'd be paid before and during the initial draft, whereas now you put in that work for free hoping to be paid. Under the old system they might cut you off, but you'd been paid up until that point and it was roughly equivalent to being fired.
Sure, they had more control over what you produced, but under the current system they have a lot of control over what they will pay for and market. You always could write a novel if you had the time and inclination, you just wouldn't have it published if you didn't have the money. Same is true, but to a lesser extent with shops like Amazon opening up to inexpensive self publishing.
Yes, but the mount of money that a best selling author makes on a given copy is probably only 10%, if you cut the price down to $1 or $2 and self publish through Amazon you'd get $0.30 or $0.70 per copy sold. Or $350k on 1 million copies. Whereas you might get $500k on a similar number of paperbacks selling for $5 a copy. But, when all is said and done, you just have to convince the potential reader that your particular book is worth 20% of the cost of a paperback book in order to make the sale.
Perhaps, but where are you getting a mechanic to work on your equipment for free? Mechanics around here are quite expensive, especially if you want the work done right. Fuel costs would have to be significantly higher before that proposition worked out.
Furthermore, what was the corresponding increase in the cost of parts and labor during that time period?
That's not true, that's only true if you create the materials on their time, otherwise you own it, not the school. Unless the school is giving the OP time off in which to create the materials or is paying overtime, the proper owner of the materials would be the employee. Otherwise it's a pretty blatant violation of the FLSA.
In this case, it sounds like the school is paying for the materials to be developed and as such it's going to be work for hire unless both parties agree to something else.
Isn't that a tremendous security vulnerability if the scanning isn't done correctly or frequently enough? I'm sure it does lower memory utilization, but I'm not sure that I'd trust that not to have any bugs or vulnerabilities.
That argument comes up frequently and is usually an attempt to justify swap algorithms that aren't aggressive enough at paging out the RAM. The problem is that a lot of things go in and out of RAM frequently and you will notice a significant drop in performance if that's happening regularly.
I remember spending many hours trying to figure out how I could get those last few kb of RAM freed up so that I could run my fancy new DOS game that really had to have either 512kb or 640KB of lowmem RAM. When I wasn't gaming it didn't make any difference, but the program wouldn't load at all without it. Same basic deal here, while it's gotten a lot easier for Windows to manage memory than it was for DOS, there really isn't any good way of the OS taking up ~12% of the RAM when the system is largely idle and dropping back to something reasonable when the resources are in demand. Especially when the demand is short lived.
The problem is that if it only shows up on some machines then it's not something that they can do on their own. And it's not just the web browser that can lead to unreasonable memory consumption, poorly coded or bloated web pages, extensions are also possible problems that end up causing memory use.
Well, whether or not that has any bearing on ZFS, unless they change the license on ZFS, they wouldn't have the ability to do it anyways. Or at least not without violating the terms of at least one of the involved licenses.
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I'm going to give that a try. I've been looking for something to handle the bare metal aspect of restoration. I do my main backups to crashplan, but that doesn't really provide me with a convenient way of doing a baremetal back up.
For Linux it's not too hard to go from a base install + backup to one that's where I left it, Windows though is a PITA due to the architecture without jumping through some special hoops.
The reason why people buy it is because the oil industry has successfully stalled efforts to replace it with something that's less polluting and renewable.
- and you call ME an idiot with this IDIOTIC assertion?
What a bunch of nonsense. Do you know why people are still using oil and coal and gas today? It's because it's the CHEAPEST and most abundant, easiest to use, easiest to transport, easiest to store and easiest to handle solution.
Oil is running out, we're using it more quickly than it is being replenished. It's cheapest and most convenient primarily because we're subsidizing it heavily. Also, gas and oil are not easily stored and not easiest handled. I take it you haven't been paying attention to the times when gas stations go up in flames because somebody was getting in and out of their car and static electricity caused the fumes to ignite? Or when it leaks into the groundwater because a tank started leaking or how about the various oil spills that poison our fisheries?
Eh. There's a LOT of oil shale and even more coal reserves lying around the country.
With good reason, people have been trying to tap those resources for decades now and nobody has managed to get it right at a cost that's affordable. And in all likelihood those resources will be there when the last humans walk the Earth as it's not likely that the technology will be there before we ditch oil for something renewable.
What concerns me is that I live in a state that's right on the ocean, so, all that crap water coming from red states up river from me has the chance to screw up our crops and our drinking water. Fortunately, the city owns the entire water shed so those chemicals shouldn't be getting into our water, but there's a good chance that they'll end up polluting the fisheries in other states.
That's not informative. What you're failing to comprehend is that there are popular issues and there are important issues, some popular issues aren't important and some important issues are popular. If we didn't force people to give to unpopular but important issues we'd be screwed.
As for your line about liberals and taxes, I suppose that during the 2000 to 2006 period where the GOP controlled everything that the IRS stopped throwing people in jail for tax evasion. Wait, you say that tax evasion laws were enforced even then?
Ultimately, the difference between liberals and conservatives generally is that the liberals actually care about the country and those the reside in it, whereas the GOP mainly cares about the rich and appearing to love the country. Hence why you see such a concerted effort by the GOP to burn the country down to save the rich from having to pay taxes in proportion to the benefit they get from not burning the country down. The rich more than the poor ought to be pissed by the way the GOP is acting.
Idiot. The reason why people buy it is because the oil industry has successfully stalled efforts to replace it with something that's less polluting and renewable. It's all well and good to not want to buy oil, but if you have to drive a car or use products made from oil because there aren't alternatives, then that's precisely what you're going to do. Around here, I had to drive to work one day out of the week because the buses wouldn't be able to get me downtown for start of work at 6:00 am.
Most people don't care how their vehicle is filled so long as it's affordable and gets them where they want to go. Subsidizing oil is just about helping oil producers remain profitable even as it becomes more and more clear that we need to transition away from it.
B&N doesn't lock users into using their ebooks on only B&N sanctioned products, which is ultimately what this is about. I happen to have a Nook and Amazon is the only major ebookstore that doesn't allow me to buy from them and use the books without conversion and possibly stripping the DRM. B&N uses the same protection scheme and format as most of the ebookstores and so if I get sick of using a Nook, my next ebook reader could be made by somebody else entirely.
Ultimately, I have a feeling that it's more about Amazon using this deal to prevent their customers from using the books legally, remember B&N isn't just a book seller now, B&N sells ereaders and I'm guessing that they want to protect that as well.
I buy from O'Reilly if I have any option of doing so, their policies and upgrades are superior to any others I've seen. Plus they do things like have bundle discounts for buying both the paper and electronic version, upgrade discounts and from time to time they provide corrected versions of their ebooks for free.
It's not undermining their promise. It shows me that B&N is serious about not carrying anything that they can't sell through their ebookstore. On top of that, it shows me that they're going to fight with publishers that are preventing them from doing it.
In the long run B&N knows where things are headed, it's not a surprise that they started selling Kindles, the industry is going to be heavily represented in the future by ebooks. It's just somewhat surprising to see a major corporation like B&N with the foresight to get off the tracks before the obsolescence train hits it.
You're missing the point. DC opted to cut ties with B&N even though Nook Color has been out for nearly a year at this point. As for the difference between a painting and a photo of a painting, that's really not the same as the difference between a comic and a digital comic. As somebody that has spent some time painting and has some idea about printing, you don't lose anywhere near as much by digitizing a comic as you do a painting.
If you were comparing fine art prints with the digitized ones, you would have a point, but the colors that they're using in comics are chosen to reproduce easily, which greatly diminishes the choices they use. The rest of it is more a matter of conditioning than actual superiority.
Epub is a standard format and apart from the DRM is available for porting to any OS where people want to access the books. Calibre for instance already runs on Windows, Linux, OSX and FreeBSD.
Not really, I for one support them sticking to their guns. One of the reasons that I buy most of my books from them is that any book I see on the shelf at their stores is one that I can buy for my Nook, or really any other device that supports epubs.
B&N isn't a small bookseller, they are one of if not the largest book sellers in the world. Pulling the books from their shelves because they can't sell them online is ultimately good for everybody and a bit surprising. Given that this means they can't make money off the dead tree editions.
The thing about Amazon is that they have yet to change their devices to work with the standard format that everybody else uses, consequently the only way to buy those books and have them work on a Nook Color involves converting them with a third party utility. I don't know if they have DRM, but I'm guessing there will be, if they're important enough for an exclusivity agreement the odds are good that they're important enough for DC to insist upon DRM.
What!? And hit Al Gore?
Doesn't matter. It's like the time the school searched my brother. They didn't have legal grounds to believe that he specifically stole anything from the other students, and they didn't get the consent of the parents either before doing it.
School officials regularly violate the rights of the students when convenient all the while ignoring more serious problems where a similar level of vigilance might be justifiable.
Just use bugmenot, I know that there are log ins available for Youtube.
Sure they are, the kids aren't the ones that are getting to opt out, it's their parents that are doing it. You're argument is that because it's not the state that's forcing the kids that the kids aren't being forced. Which is just ridiculous.
That really hasn't changed. If you can convince a publisher to grant you and advance on the book, it greatly increases the amount of time that most folks have to revise their books. Under the old system they'd be paid before and during the initial draft, whereas now you put in that work for free hoping to be paid. Under the old system they might cut you off, but you'd been paid up until that point and it was roughly equivalent to being fired.
Sure, they had more control over what you produced, but under the current system they have a lot of control over what they will pay for and market. You always could write a novel if you had the time and inclination, you just wouldn't have it published if you didn't have the money. Same is true, but to a lesser extent with shops like Amazon opening up to inexpensive self publishing.
Yes, but the mount of money that a best selling author makes on a given copy is probably only 10%, if you cut the price down to $1 or $2 and self publish through Amazon you'd get $0.30 or $0.70 per copy sold. Or $350k on 1 million copies. Whereas you might get $500k on a similar number of paperbacks selling for $5 a copy. But, when all is said and done, you just have to convince the potential reader that your particular book is worth 20% of the cost of a paperback book in order to make the sale.
Perhaps, but where are you getting a mechanic to work on your equipment for free? Mechanics around here are quite expensive, especially if you want the work done right. Fuel costs would have to be significantly higher before that proposition worked out.
Furthermore, what was the corresponding increase in the cost of parts and labor during that time period?
I'm not sure about Bing or Zune, but I'm pretty sure that .NET and SilverLight are best seen as products there to protect Windows marketshare.
That's not true, that's only true if you create the materials on their time, otherwise you own it, not the school. Unless the school is giving the OP time off in which to create the materials or is paying overtime, the proper owner of the materials would be the employee. Otherwise it's a pretty blatant violation of the FLSA.
In this case, it sounds like the school is paying for the materials to be developed and as such it's going to be work for hire unless both parties agree to something else.
Isn't that a tremendous security vulnerability if the scanning isn't done correctly or frequently enough? I'm sure it does lower memory utilization, but I'm not sure that I'd trust that not to have any bugs or vulnerabilities.
That argument comes up frequently and is usually an attempt to justify swap algorithms that aren't aggressive enough at paging out the RAM. The problem is that a lot of things go in and out of RAM frequently and you will notice a significant drop in performance if that's happening regularly.
I remember spending many hours trying to figure out how I could get those last few kb of RAM freed up so that I could run my fancy new DOS game that really had to have either 512kb or 640KB of lowmem RAM. When I wasn't gaming it didn't make any difference, but the program wouldn't load at all without it. Same basic deal here, while it's gotten a lot easier for Windows to manage memory than it was for DOS, there really isn't any good way of the OS taking up ~12% of the RAM when the system is largely idle and dropping back to something reasonable when the resources are in demand. Especially when the demand is short lived.
The problem is that if it only shows up on some machines then it's not something that they can do on their own. And it's not just the web browser that can lead to unreasonable memory consumption, poorly coded or bloated web pages, extensions are also possible problems that end up causing memory use.
Well, whether or not that has any bearing on ZFS, unless they change the license on ZFS, they wouldn't have the ability to do it anyways. Or at least not without violating the terms of at least one of the involved licenses.