I've never dealt with tapes, but I thought the issue was that tapes aren't necessarily going to work right if you have to swap drives. And realistically you shouldn't be assuming that you're going to have the same one available for many reasons.
As well as the fact that it's a lot easier to check HDD for bit rot than it is to deal with however many tapes. A simple utility like SFV will do that for you with a couple of clicks when it's time for the scheduled verification.
Or you can house a RAIDZ in an external enclosure. It's even faster as you don't necessarily have to reboot unless it's really necessary and you've got a way of easily checking for and correcting bit rot.
The main downside is that you're going to have to find a way to get the disks offsite or you're not really that backed up. Just from user error, and power supply problems. The one thing that I do like about DVDs and other WORM mediums is that you just have to worry about the media getting corrupted, not user error after it's been successfully written.
You do realize that the point of this is to build it into all new buildings, right?
Additionally it's unlikely that the amount of extra energy from a few buildings would have a noticeable effect in the other buildings. Of course we can't violate the laws of physics, but when you're talking about that much energy and when most buildings are built to sustain much larger earthquakes than what's realistically going to happen it isn't worth worrying a whole lot about.
One thing you omitted which is probably important is that PSE was doing that mainly so that they could sell the electricity to those living in CA for a profit and to try and keep the building of new generation sources to a minimum. Not saying that it's bad, but it is important to realize that there wasn't really any power being saved in that fashion. The majority of power in this part of the country is hydroelectric and dirt cheap, it's not exactly an accident that so many tech companies are coming from here.
Personally, I think the idea of controlling things from somewhere off site to be a bad idea. With all the things that have been cracked in recent years, I'm not sure how adding more devices to play with is such a good idea. I would however be fully in favor of a scheme that used a standards compliant web interface to download instructions to some sort of fob that one could use to program the devices manually to power up and down at various times. A nice web interface with information about pricing and the ability to make a decision based upon ones life and the cost of providing the service.
I know you're joking/trolling, but there is something to arranged marriages when done properly. One of the biggest problems in marriages is the tendency for people to form them while stupid. There's a lack of objectivity that people have when making those decisions, which are often times more apparent from a parent or friend. The ability to consider things other than just hormones.
Of course it can work the other way as well, but the key is to actually care and to take the time to consider all the angles.
That's not true, the penalty should be going down as the ease of distribution of copyrighted work goes down since the amount of harm that's being caused is reduced. What you're suggesting goes against the grain of modern capitalist theory. The price for any good or service in a competitive market should always approach the marginal cost of production. What you're suggesting would change that in a rather radical and significant fashion.
While the number of copies that might be ripped off is far greater today than it was decades ago, the cost per copy that would theoretically be lost is much lower now than at any time. And appears to still be going down further. Pretty much any time when there was significant development in IP there was a significant amount of borrowing, stealing and such going on. It's difficult to find periods where it wasn't happening.
We live in a society, at least in the US, where corporations are none to shy to go to legislators to demand that they not be required to compete because it's bad for the economy/jobs/consumers and tend to get there way because people like you don't understand the issue. We're getting to the point, if we haven't already gotten there where IP rights are harming the ability to innovate far more than what they were ever meant to help. Things like blocking patents, patents on unpatentable things and outright fraudulent patent trolling do very real damage to the purpose of advancing society. Same largely goes for other forms of IP as well.
That's a huge exaggeration. That's an argument which the Klan was fond of advancing as a justification for getting rid of affirmative action. In fact David Duke was the individual that's credited with coining the term reverse discrimination.
What you're missing is that there is a huge difference between somebody that has a privileged position making those sorts of comments and those that are being repressed. It's not that there's a substantive difference between the comments, but there is a huge difference in the impact, intent and goal.
Ultimately, whether you like it or not, voicing some opinions gives cover and support to supremacist groups. If there's a substantial number of black or other minority supremacist groups that are pulling off and supporting actions like the DC Holocaust museum shooter then it's worth reconsidering the double standard.
And unlike Star Trek we raised it from the dead and we can kill it. Fox has been screwing around with the fan base for quite some time, and I hope the execs at Fox movies have learned something from the idiots at the Fox TV division.
That's generally the problem with cartoon series, most of the time you'll get one of three or four people doing 90% of the voices. Which is also why it's so hard sometimes to figure out who's doing the voice.
There's already been a bit of that sort of shenanigans with some of the minor characters, I think that Santa was among some that was done by different voice actors over time.
Probably because they released the last 4 movies via Fox movies, which is a much different set of executives, but I suspect that the licensing is being done via Fox movies first then to comedy central for the broadcast rights.
Trust me, it doesn't make a difference. Well, it does, if you know the voices aren't real, it just takes a lot longer for you to crack and is several times as painful. Trust me if you've got voices that are talking to you constantly and loudly enough that you can't hear other people talking, you're not going to be able to tolerate that for too long without giving in.
That wouldn't be correct. It's not gibberish, the way that it looks, it's not that much different than speaking perl rather than English. It means something to the person, and the connections between the phrases has definite meaning, it's just meant for other people to not understand what it is that they're saying. But simultaneously, they'll frequently want for the person they're speaking to to be able to understand it.
I've had full out psychotic breaks where the doctors involved referred to my diagnosis as paranoid schizophrenic, although it's a bit dubious since it did go away eventually and turned out to be the result of abuse. But, it's the same set of skills that I use for forming elaborate arguments, writing poetry and dong any number of other things, it's just much lower level than what most people are used to.
Probably the best way to think of it is that it's sort of like how a lot of geeks communicate, except on steroids from a completely incompatible point of view. If you haven't got the key to unlocking the language you're probably not going to get it, but it's rarely actually gibberish. The possible exception is the times when it's a story involving persecution, that's kind of hit or miss depending upon the circumstance.
Personality disorders aren't genetic. There may be an underlying predisposition to stress or poor coping mechanisms, but personality disorders are not genetic in nature. They're caused primarily by environmental factors and they're definitely not mental illness in a technical sense. They aren't treatable via medication and even the as yet unproven brain chemistry explanation of mental illness doesn't apply. Medications aren't likely to ever help out much.
Personality disorders are better thought of as a culture that's unique the the person and not to the people around which the person is living. It's a systematic adjustment that the brain makes to cope with adverse conditions and it's not something which can be readily separated from the individual's self. As opposed to mental illnesses where people will frequently have periods, however brief, of remission.
They mainly skated by on a DoJ that didn't think that anti-trust regulations or really any regulation was in need of enforcement. Back when they were using DRM on all of their tracks in the ITMS that was definitely anti-competitive. They wouldn't sell tracks in other formats nor would they license the use of their DRM codecs to other manufacturers for use in their products. And it definitely did hurt the consumers who were in many cases unable to buy the tracks for the player they wanted without diluting the sound quality.
Clones are what nearly bankrupted Apple back during the 90s. Admittedly the clones were of poor quality, but they just about did the company in. While Steve did do more than just kill off the agreement under which the clones were being made, it did put Apple a fair ways back towards prosperity.
So it's more than a little understandable that they'd be clone shy.
Kids aren't, but parents are far less willing to allow kids to make mistakes. As somebody that was parented by baby boomers, I got to do a hell of a lot of stupid and somewhat dangerous stuff because my parents weren't paying attention. These days though, try and do anything that's actually interesting or fun and you'll be bundled up in pads everywhere straight away.
Granted some of the stuff I can remember doing was probably not something that kids ought to be doing, but a lot of it was harmless fun that allowed me some idea as to when we were venturing into actual danger. In retrospect, perhaps jumping off the playstructure at school or riding the wagon down a hill towards a bit of a drop to the rocky shore line wasn't bright. But I didn't get hurt doing any of that.
And ultimately, without nearly maiming oneself it's hard to learn the stuff you're supposed to learn as a kid. Parents are there mostly to make sure that kids don't seriously injure or kill themselves doing it.
Yes, that's how they operate. They bring in scale and build quality until everybody is conditioned to only buy their products, then they cut out the quality. Observe how craptastic Windows, Office and Internet explorer are compared with the products they sell that have to compete. Say the Zune, office hardware, money and search. I know some smart ass is going to scoff, but Bing and the Zune are quite a bit better than what people suggest.
Perhaps it's good enough for you, but what about all those that want to listen to the big names? The way that Last.fm gets to be free is that it's mainly independent artists with very few if any of the big names. At some point if one wishes to hear whatever the major star of the moment is they'll have to pay in some fashion. Listening to a couple of minutes of commercials is something which is perfectly reasonable to expect in exchange for not paying.
What are you whining about? The cost of postage has historically risen at a lower rate than inflation. Meaning that stamps do cost less, just not in face value.
It's complicated, but you're trying to balance the location of the generation with the location of the use with the needs of the electrical grid with the ability to put hardware there to do the previous steps.
You're trying to balance it so that you've maximized the output and efficiency while minimizing the cost and environmental impact. It's not easy to do by any stretch of the imagination. That's why you're wanting to decentralize it, but you're having to also bear in mind that transmission lines and extra workers do add to inefficiencies inherent in the system.
On top of that, you've got to be aware of regions like the west coast, south and new England which are all subject to their own geographic oddities and risks. So that you can minimize the consequences of a hurricane, earthquake or eruption.
That's what people used to call "penny wise and pound foolish." By "saving" from $500-600 they're wasting probably 10x that much on lost productivity and extra cost of support. Sure it tends to be hard to quantify those costs, but they're definitely there and even relatively small tweaks like adding a second monitor will typically pay for themselves in only a few months tops.
Let me guess, these are the same large corporations that are running botnets because they didn't bother to budget for proper security measures either. I'd love to know which corporations those are so that I can be sure to never do business with them until they've gotten some proper budgets in place.
That sounds like the same bullshit that led TD Ameritrade to not know about the trojan that was providing spammers with customer contact information.
That's something I always wonder about, exactly why is MS not being taken to task for cutting off updates to pirates which are necessary for proper security? It strikes me that by the time it gets to that point, they may as well just admit that they've lost, rather than pollute the internet and all the other law abiding users with the extra malware targets.
That sounds about right, and sometimes you'll even add an additional number off the end for times when you're needing to bump the version to make people recompile. Usually that's in ports or similar when somebody screws up the makefile and didn't actually make any code changes, but the changes didn't make it into the compiled version.
Steam isn't that much better, they do pretty actively clamp down on the second market and have definitely been known to deactivate entire accounts because somebody bought a couple of games on the second market.
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I've never dealt with tapes, but I thought the issue was that tapes aren't necessarily going to work right if you have to swap drives. And realistically you shouldn't be assuming that you're going to have the same one available for many reasons.
As well as the fact that it's a lot easier to check HDD for bit rot than it is to deal with however many tapes. A simple utility like SFV will do that for you with a couple of clicks when it's time for the scheduled verification.
Or you can house a RAIDZ in an external enclosure. It's even faster as you don't necessarily have to reboot unless it's really necessary and you've got a way of easily checking for and correcting bit rot.
The main downside is that you're going to have to find a way to get the disks offsite or you're not really that backed up. Just from user error, and power supply problems. The one thing that I do like about DVDs and other WORM mediums is that you just have to worry about the media getting corrupted, not user error after it's been successfully written.
You do realize that the point of this is to build it into all new buildings, right?
Additionally it's unlikely that the amount of extra energy from a few buildings would have a noticeable effect in the other buildings. Of course we can't violate the laws of physics, but when you're talking about that much energy and when most buildings are built to sustain much larger earthquakes than what's realistically going to happen it isn't worth worrying a whole lot about.
One thing you omitted which is probably important is that PSE was doing that mainly so that they could sell the electricity to those living in CA for a profit and to try and keep the building of new generation sources to a minimum. Not saying that it's bad, but it is important to realize that there wasn't really any power being saved in that fashion. The majority of power in this part of the country is hydroelectric and dirt cheap, it's not exactly an accident that so many tech companies are coming from here.
Personally, I think the idea of controlling things from somewhere off site to be a bad idea. With all the things that have been cracked in recent years, I'm not sure how adding more devices to play with is such a good idea. I would however be fully in favor of a scheme that used a standards compliant web interface to download instructions to some sort of fob that one could use to program the devices manually to power up and down at various times. A nice web interface with information about pricing and the ability to make a decision based upon ones life and the cost of providing the service.
I know you're joking/trolling, but there is something to arranged marriages when done properly. One of the biggest problems in marriages is the tendency for people to form them while stupid. There's a lack of objectivity that people have when making those decisions, which are often times more apparent from a parent or friend. The ability to consider things other than just hormones.
Of course it can work the other way as well, but the key is to actually care and to take the time to consider all the angles.
That's not true, the penalty should be going down as the ease of distribution of copyrighted work goes down since the amount of harm that's being caused is reduced. What you're suggesting goes against the grain of modern capitalist theory. The price for any good or service in a competitive market should always approach the marginal cost of production. What you're suggesting would change that in a rather radical and significant fashion.
While the number of copies that might be ripped off is far greater today than it was decades ago, the cost per copy that would theoretically be lost is much lower now than at any time. And appears to still be going down further. Pretty much any time when there was significant development in IP there was a significant amount of borrowing, stealing and such going on. It's difficult to find periods where it wasn't happening.
We live in a society, at least in the US, where corporations are none to shy to go to legislators to demand that they not be required to compete because it's bad for the economy/jobs/consumers and tend to get there way because people like you don't understand the issue. We're getting to the point, if we haven't already gotten there where IP rights are harming the ability to innovate far more than what they were ever meant to help. Things like blocking patents, patents on unpatentable things and outright fraudulent patent trolling do very real damage to the purpose of advancing society. Same largely goes for other forms of IP as well.
That's a huge exaggeration. That's an argument which the Klan was fond of advancing as a justification for getting rid of affirmative action. In fact David Duke was the individual that's credited with coining the term reverse discrimination.
What you're missing is that there is a huge difference between somebody that has a privileged position making those sorts of comments and those that are being repressed. It's not that there's a substantive difference between the comments, but there is a huge difference in the impact, intent and goal.
Ultimately, whether you like it or not, voicing some opinions gives cover and support to supremacist groups. If there's a substantial number of black or other minority supremacist groups that are pulling off and supporting actions like the DC Holocaust museum shooter then it's worth reconsidering the double standard.
And unlike Star Trek we raised it from the dead and we can kill it. Fox has been screwing around with the fan base for quite some time, and I hope the execs at Fox movies have learned something from the idiots at the Fox TV division.
That's generally the problem with cartoon series, most of the time you'll get one of three or four people doing 90% of the voices. Which is also why it's so hard sometimes to figure out who's doing the voice.
There's already been a bit of that sort of shenanigans with some of the minor characters, I think that Santa was among some that was done by different voice actors over time.
Probably because they released the last 4 movies via Fox movies, which is a much different set of executives, but I suspect that the licensing is being done via Fox movies first then to comedy central for the broadcast rights.
Trust me, it doesn't make a difference. Well, it does, if you know the voices aren't real, it just takes a lot longer for you to crack and is several times as painful. Trust me if you've got voices that are talking to you constantly and loudly enough that you can't hear other people talking, you're not going to be able to tolerate that for too long without giving in.
That wouldn't be correct. It's not gibberish, the way that it looks, it's not that much different than speaking perl rather than English. It means something to the person, and the connections between the phrases has definite meaning, it's just meant for other people to not understand what it is that they're saying. But simultaneously, they'll frequently want for the person they're speaking to to be able to understand it.
I've had full out psychotic breaks where the doctors involved referred to my diagnosis as paranoid schizophrenic, although it's a bit dubious since it did go away eventually and turned out to be the result of abuse. But, it's the same set of skills that I use for forming elaborate arguments, writing poetry and dong any number of other things, it's just much lower level than what most people are used to.
Probably the best way to think of it is that it's sort of like how a lot of geeks communicate, except on steroids from a completely incompatible point of view. If you haven't got the key to unlocking the language you're probably not going to get it, but it's rarely actually gibberish. The possible exception is the times when it's a story involving persecution, that's kind of hit or miss depending upon the circumstance.
Personality disorders aren't genetic. There may be an underlying predisposition to stress or poor coping mechanisms, but personality disorders are not genetic in nature. They're caused primarily by environmental factors and they're definitely not mental illness in a technical sense. They aren't treatable via medication and even the as yet unproven brain chemistry explanation of mental illness doesn't apply. Medications aren't likely to ever help out much.
Personality disorders are better thought of as a culture that's unique the the person and not to the people around which the person is living. It's a systematic adjustment that the brain makes to cope with adverse conditions and it's not something which can be readily separated from the individual's self. As opposed to mental illnesses where people will frequently have periods, however brief, of remission.
They mainly skated by on a DoJ that didn't think that anti-trust regulations or really any regulation was in need of enforcement. Back when they were using DRM on all of their tracks in the ITMS that was definitely anti-competitive. They wouldn't sell tracks in other formats nor would they license the use of their DRM codecs to other manufacturers for use in their products. And it definitely did hurt the consumers who were in many cases unable to buy the tracks for the player they wanted without diluting the sound quality.
Clones are what nearly bankrupted Apple back during the 90s. Admittedly the clones were of poor quality, but they just about did the company in. While Steve did do more than just kill off the agreement under which the clones were being made, it did put Apple a fair ways back towards prosperity.
So it's more than a little understandable that they'd be clone shy.
Kids aren't, but parents are far less willing to allow kids to make mistakes. As somebody that was parented by baby boomers, I got to do a hell of a lot of stupid and somewhat dangerous stuff because my parents weren't paying attention. These days though, try and do anything that's actually interesting or fun and you'll be bundled up in pads everywhere straight away.
Granted some of the stuff I can remember doing was probably not something that kids ought to be doing, but a lot of it was harmless fun that allowed me some idea as to when we were venturing into actual danger. In retrospect, perhaps jumping off the playstructure at school or riding the wagon down a hill towards a bit of a drop to the rocky shore line wasn't bright. But I didn't get hurt doing any of that.
And ultimately, without nearly maiming oneself it's hard to learn the stuff you're supposed to learn as a kid. Parents are there mostly to make sure that kids don't seriously injure or kill themselves doing it.
Yes, that's how they operate. They bring in scale and build quality until everybody is conditioned to only buy their products, then they cut out the quality. Observe how craptastic Windows, Office and Internet explorer are compared with the products they sell that have to compete. Say the Zune, office hardware, money and search. I know some smart ass is going to scoff, but Bing and the Zune are quite a bit better than what people suggest.
Perhaps it's good enough for you, but what about all those that want to listen to the big names? The way that Last.fm gets to be free is that it's mainly independent artists with very few if any of the big names. At some point if one wishes to hear whatever the major star of the moment is they'll have to pay in some fashion. Listening to a couple of minutes of commercials is something which is perfectly reasonable to expect in exchange for not paying.
What are you whining about? The cost of postage has historically risen at a lower rate than inflation. Meaning that stamps do cost less, just not in face value.
It's complicated, but you're trying to balance the location of the generation with the location of the use with the needs of the electrical grid with the ability to put hardware there to do the previous steps.
You're trying to balance it so that you've maximized the output and efficiency while minimizing the cost and environmental impact. It's not easy to do by any stretch of the imagination. That's why you're wanting to decentralize it, but you're having to also bear in mind that transmission lines and extra workers do add to inefficiencies inherent in the system.
On top of that, you've got to be aware of regions like the west coast, south and new England which are all subject to their own geographic oddities and risks. So that you can minimize the consequences of a hurricane, earthquake or eruption.
That's what people used to call "penny wise and pound foolish." By "saving" from $500-600 they're wasting probably 10x that much on lost productivity and extra cost of support. Sure it tends to be hard to quantify those costs, but they're definitely there and even relatively small tweaks like adding a second monitor will typically pay for themselves in only a few months tops.
Let me guess, these are the same large corporations that are running botnets because they didn't bother to budget for proper security measures either. I'd love to know which corporations those are so that I can be sure to never do business with them until they've gotten some proper budgets in place.
That sounds like the same bullshit that led TD Ameritrade to not know about the trojan that was providing spammers with customer contact information.
That's something I always wonder about, exactly why is MS not being taken to task for cutting off updates to pirates which are necessary for proper security? It strikes me that by the time it gets to that point, they may as well just admit that they've lost, rather than pollute the internet and all the other law abiding users with the extra malware targets.
That sounds about right, and sometimes you'll even add an additional number off the end for times when you're needing to bump the version to make people recompile. Usually that's in ports or similar when somebody screws up the makefile and didn't actually make any code changes, but the changes didn't make it into the compiled version.
Steam isn't that much better, they do pretty actively clamp down on the second market and have definitely been known to deactivate entire accounts because somebody bought a couple of games on the second market.