Spending most of the time trying to discredit the personal and political opinions of the prosecuted and the witnesses they called, instead of trying to prove that crimes had been committed.
It is not due to TorrentFreak-bias, they were exactly that inept in swedish as well.
Three years of investigation, and they understand less about bittorrent than 10 minutes on wikipedia teaches you.
They had no statistics, no _actual_ evidence (messed up downloads, screenshots of cut urls to torrents, vague and repeated accusations of child pronography, a few random looks at top 100-lists with nothing to back it except "i looked at it, you should trust me", ridiculous claims "99% of the files on pirate bay are copyright protected" and "100% of the people downloading from pirate bay would have bought the album if tpb wasn't there"), the witnesses they called were all media-moguls with absolutely no grasp of internet or technology, and generally a case built on "we sell less CDs, therefore the pirate bay is to blame" instead of realizing that "people don't want CDs anymore, that's why the sales are declining".
Add to this the COMPLETE inability to understand the "cluster mentality" that the internet has brought to a more visible level, where there are no leaders, no decision-makers, no controlling people. People do what needs to be done, and that's the end of that. They spent half the trial trying to pinpoint someone as "the leader", something that in the case of TPB simply doesn't exist. There is a core group, but what makes them more important than the people outside that is simply server-access. Remove that from the equation and no matter who you are, you can do things without asking for permission.
Not to mention that after these 3 years, half of the charge is dropped during the 2nd day because they completely misunderstood the nature of bittorrent, and HOW the file-sharing actually happened.
"Botched", is the word that comes to mind.
But I think this is because of who's behind them. The media-companies, who have never had any problems going forward brute force, waving money and ludicrous demands for more money, who are used to the other party bowing their heads and going "yes massa". When actually faced with _opposition_, their lack of preparation and knowledge shines through like the headlights of an 18-wheeler at 2 am (see, a car-analogy).
When I told her they received too many flowers, my girlfriend suggested they give the flowers to a local hospital instead of the neighbors
Well, since the couple in question live in an apartment building for the elderly, giving the flowers to their neighbors is actually not a bad idea at all:)
Define "large mailbox" please.
But yes, the lack of calendar-support can be a bitch. One would think some thunderbird-developer would find it useful to implement support for outlook and mail.app-styled calendar invites, instead of relying on human parsing:)
The goal of artificial speech has always been to create a lifelike, authentic performance of human speech, not the more reproduction of a sequence of synthetic phonemes.
You accidentally the more reproduction? The whole thing?
Back in the day (before i switched my real life TLD), I had my local machines named after HHGTTG-characters, and I actually made some sense out of it.
Marvin: Constantly complaining about menial tasks. Easy choice for a router. Zaphod: Main server, being the only dual-cpu machine at the time. Arthur: Win2k-server, just feeling out-of-place and generally lost. Random: A really tiny mailserver Trillian: Current GF's machine Ford: Ehm.. my.. workstation.. whatever.
Nowadays, I'm left with "router", "$name-mac", "KeXpod" and "ford". Naming schemes are fun, when you have enough machines to make sense out of it:p
Before switching to HHGTTG, i had a brief period of naming the machines after DBZ-characters, but it quickly ended up making no sense at all (which damn machine is Piccolo anyway?).
For most intents and purposes, something pseudo like: if ($water->boiling) {
$water->amount--;
$water->create_steam();
}
is perfectly acceptable. Only when someone goes into detail and studies the actual happenings of the water and steam do you need to simulate that. Creating a simulated world wouldn't be "hard" (okay, it depends on what you compare it to. It's "extremely difficult" compared to slicing bread), and for certainly not anywhere near "impossible, since we can't simulate all atoms and electrons and other sciency things", it's just a matter of temporary scopes. The hard part would actually be creating the AIs to roam the world and perform amazing feats and figure out fun ways to simulate the electrons when someone uses an electron microscope.:p
Just because the simulation doesn't throw up "LOADING" when you go past jupiter doesn't mean the entire known universe is one big zone.
If building a simulated world, it would make no sense at all to simulate the entire universe. Simulate the close proximity, use a skybox for the rest.
1) If the mission is over and if it is not the mission may be compromised...meaning people's lives are at stake
Yes, because having your life at stake SURELY wasn't in the job description when you signed up as a soldier! Seriously, it just said "drive jeeps and eat cookies", nothing about this risking of lives when killing other people-business!
I don't believe for a second that this is actually something that has been created for a monetary gain. Microsoft may be an big, giant, evil company hell-bent on monopoly (if that's your view), but they're just not this retarded. Seriously.
There is some reason for this. Some patent, some future-proofing "prior art" claim, something going on behind the scenes. They're just not this f-ing retarded.
Eventually something will come up, and people will go "oh THAT was the reason". It's what I would expect from MS. And face it, besides monkey-boy, they usually don't put the complete ass-tards up front to face the public.
Oh, but it takes them a fair amount of time to rewrite and dub some of the lines too work in footage of koalas, kangaroos and the knifey-spooney-game, and make it seem like it was always supposed to be there..
Personally, I'd call that a pretty malicious and unrealistic corner-case (and one that single drives are going to struggle badly with as well).
Well, but then you'd be wrong;)
I've been involved in many a case where mid-level storage systems (Hitachi 95xx-series) simply could not cope anymore with a RAID-5 backend.
We're talking in general 7 or 8 disks, a cache of about 2G and an SQL server of sorts being loaded on the frontend.
The thing is, once you hit the not-so-sweet-spot where you get degradation, everything goes straight to hell. It might work fine for weeks and weeks, but once you get 1 or 2% cache-misses too many, it all starts cascading down, and by the time alarms are raised things are usually completely out of control:p (and don't even get me started on what SQL Server can do when stuck on a machine with an healthy amount of RAM (12+G), those things can screw up almost anything - bar enterprise solutions - that isn't tuned to handle the rather specific load they tend to generate with the checkpointing).
RAID-5 is simply not recommended for applications requiring performance, it's perfectly suited to archival storage (if you're not using tapes) and fileservers (where you would mostly see sequential read/write), and with a spare drive or two they're in most cases "safe enough", but when it comes to systems running 24/7 with loads ranging from "a lot" to "omfg" there is simply no alternative to a sweet-ass RAID-10-system.
But then again, times may have changed since I was buried deep inside the innards of storage solutions. In that case, get off my lawn!
What ? You'd need a pretty malicious (and unrealistic) corner-case for even writing to be slower on RAID5 vs single disk, and read performance will be similar to RAID0.
Not really. Any cases that force a write without a fully-cached block will initiate a read from all the disks and new parity calculation and then a write. Anything other than raw sequential writes will be slower, since there are a lot more IOPS than simply writing a block to a lone drive.
YMMV though, depending on how much cache you have ("RAID-5 Cards"(tm) with no internal cache == performance killer TO THE MAX), but r-5 _is_ a slow writer. It is however a fast reader, and the greatly reduced costs (and, with a lesser number of disks, the lower chance of complete and utter breakdown) compared to RAID-1 (or, if you're thusly inclined, RAID-10) usually make up for it. A decent R-5 with a large enough cache will give you good/great performance, whereas a R-10 will most likely (again, dependent on actual use patterns) give you a couple of notches more.
the "just works"-factor, the factor that made me say "oh fine whatever" and switch to a Macbook Pro as a work-laptop.
After an upgrade botched my carefully handcrafted xorg.conf and left me with a semi-working dual screen setup, mac was the way to go. Plug the external screen in, everything dims and comes back two seconds later, running in glorious extended desktop/xinerama mode with full 3D acceleration everywhere.
That's a "just works"-thing.
Program installation? I use the packages available, which has the lovely "little thing" of actually integrating with things like Spotlight, so once I've installed something it's available right away by an apple+space keypress, as opposed to say Launchy on windows or any of the multitude of programs on *nix, which require me to wait until the next time it scans everything to show up.
Another "just works"-thing.
Headsets, more specifically USB ones, get plugged in, and then get selected when i do something like run Skype. Last time I ventured in to getting-logitech-usb-headset-to-play-with-skype-land in linux, it eventually ended up working - KINDA (but that kinda might have been related to the relative immaturity of skype on linux at the time), whereas - again - on the Mac it's no problem whatsoever.
"Just works".
And so on, and so on. I don't mind at all to tinker with configs and clis, and have done so extensively over the past many years, but when I sit down to do my job - I want stuff to "just work". It's a big waste of time having to craft configs for simple things like dual monitors and headsets, and it's honestly something I don't want to spend time with when I'm on a deadline.
So until things start "just working", linux is confined to my servers and my private "workstation" (which is kinda set up like the servers), but for anyone getting a new machine to actually USE, I would point them towards a Mac with the whole of my body. It. Just. Works.
Difference is that apple has not released anything, nor have they confirmed that they are releasing anything, it's all just speculation - ergo not newsworthy at all.
In other news: Scientists say that the sun will rise again tomorrow. Stay tuned for more information, and pre-rise photos of famous landmarks.
The black robes are completely awesome, but be sure to get the Charles Darwin Limited Edition ones: they have extra pockets for incendiary devices and come with an evolution of man-popup.
I think you're reading too much into my post. As stated, the pythonic "yaaay" and the rest of the sentence following it pointing out that that alone wasn't lethargic enough, it's not about intolerance, it's about complete and utter disinterest.
I couldn't care less about furries, so i place them into the same slot i place vegetarians and christians: people who i don't care about unless they shove their sexual preference, eating habits or insanity in my face. I merely find it amusing that both Sony and MS decide to clone something that is somehow dedicated to flying penises en masse, furries and misplaced "embassies".
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Oh, and I completely forgot:
Spending most of the time trying to discredit the personal and political opinions of the prosecuted and the witnesses they called, instead of trying to prove that crimes had been committed.
It is not due to TorrentFreak-bias, they were exactly that inept in swedish as well.
Three years of investigation, and they understand less about bittorrent than 10 minutes on wikipedia teaches you.
They had no statistics, no _actual_ evidence (messed up downloads, screenshots of cut urls to torrents, vague and repeated accusations of child pronography, a few random looks at top 100-lists with nothing to back it except "i looked at it, you should trust me", ridiculous claims "99% of the files on pirate bay are copyright protected" and "100% of the people downloading from pirate bay would have bought the album if tpb wasn't there"), the witnesses they called were all media-moguls with absolutely no grasp of internet or technology, and generally a case built on "we sell less CDs, therefore the pirate bay is to blame" instead of realizing that "people don't want CDs anymore, that's why the sales are declining".
Add to this the COMPLETE inability to understand the "cluster mentality" that the internet has brought to a more visible level, where there are no leaders, no decision-makers, no controlling people. People do what needs to be done, and that's the end of that. They spent half the trial trying to pinpoint someone as "the leader", something that in the case of TPB simply doesn't exist. There is a core group, but what makes them more important than the people outside that is simply server-access. Remove that from the equation and no matter who you are, you can do things without asking for permission.
Not to mention that after these 3 years, half of the charge is dropped during the 2nd day because they completely misunderstood the nature of bittorrent, and HOW the file-sharing actually happened.
"Botched", is the word that comes to mind.
But I think this is because of who's behind them. The media-companies, who have never had any problems going forward brute force, waving money and ludicrous demands for more money, who are used to the other party bowing their heads and going "yes massa". When actually faced with _opposition_, their lack of preparation and knowledge shines through like the headlights of an 18-wheeler at 2 am (see, a car-analogy).
And that's the end of this rant.
When I told her they received too many flowers, my girlfriend suggested they give the flowers to a local hospital instead of the neighbors
Well, since the couple in question live in an apartment building for the elderly, giving the flowers to their neighbors is actually not a bad idea at all :)
Okay, that _is_ a lot, question withdrawn :p
Define "large mailbox" please. But yes, the lack of calendar-support can be a bitch. One would think some thunderbird-developer would find it useful to implement support for outlook and mail.app-styled calendar invites, instead of relying on human parsing :)
[cue constipated jokes about cell phones and genetic modification]
The goal of artificial speech has always been to create a lifelike, authentic performance of human speech, not the more reproduction of a sequence of synthetic phonemes.
You accidentally the more reproduction? The whole thing?
Back in the day (before i switched my real life TLD), I had my local machines named after HHGTTG-characters, and I actually made some sense out of it.
:p
Marvin: Constantly complaining about menial tasks. Easy choice for a router.
Zaphod: Main server, being the only dual-cpu machine at the time.
Arthur: Win2k-server, just feeling out-of-place and generally lost.
Random: A really tiny mailserver
Trillian: Current GF's machine
Ford: Ehm.. my.. workstation.. whatever.
Nowadays, I'm left with "router", "$name-mac", "KeXpod" and "ford". Naming schemes are fun, when you have enough machines to make sense out of it
Before switching to HHGTTG, i had a brief period of naming the machines after DBZ-characters, but it quickly ended up making no sense at all (which damn machine is Piccolo anyway?).
And it's also applicable for the inverse of that.
:p
For most intents and purposes, something pseudo like:
if ($water->boiling) {
$water->amount--;
$water->create_steam();
}
is perfectly acceptable. Only when someone goes into detail and studies the actual happenings of the water and steam do you need to simulate that. Creating a simulated world wouldn't be "hard" (okay, it depends on what you compare it to. It's "extremely difficult" compared to slicing bread), and for certainly not anywhere near "impossible, since we can't simulate all atoms and electrons and other sciency things", it's just a matter of temporary scopes. The hard part would actually be creating the AIs to roam the world and perform amazing feats and figure out fun ways to simulate the electrons when someone uses an electron microscope.
Just because the simulation doesn't throw up "LOADING" when you go past jupiter doesn't mean the entire known universe is one big zone. If building a simulated world, it would make no sense at all to simulate the entire universe. Simulate the close proximity, use a skybox for the rest.
But then Tom Clancy would probably manage to sue you for copying his "Net Force" series.
1) If the mission is over and if it is not the mission may be compromised...meaning people's lives are at stake
Yes, because having your life at stake SURELY wasn't in the job description when you signed up as a soldier! Seriously, it just said "drive jeeps and eat cookies", nothing about this risking of lives when killing other people-business!
I don't believe for a second that this is actually something that has been created for a monetary gain. Microsoft may be an big, giant, evil company hell-bent on monopoly (if that's your view), but they're just not this retarded. Seriously.
There is some reason for this. Some patent, some future-proofing "prior art" claim, something going on behind the scenes. They're just not this f-ing retarded.
Eventually something will come up, and people will go "oh THAT was the reason". It's what I would expect from MS. And face it, besides monkey-boy, they usually don't put the complete ass-tards up front to face the public.
Oh, but it takes them a fair amount of time to rewrite and dub some of the lines too work in footage of koalas, kangaroos and the knifey-spooney-game, and make it seem like it was always supposed to be there..
Personally, I'd call that a pretty malicious and unrealistic corner-case (and one that single drives are going to struggle badly with as well).
Well, but then you'd be wrong ;) :p
I've been involved in many a case where mid-level storage systems (Hitachi 95xx-series) simply could not cope anymore with a RAID-5 backend. We're talking in general 7 or 8 disks, a cache of about 2G and an SQL server of sorts being loaded on the frontend.
The thing is, once you hit the not-so-sweet-spot where you get degradation, everything goes straight to hell. It might work fine for weeks and weeks, but once you get 1 or 2% cache-misses too many, it all starts cascading down, and by the time alarms are raised things are usually completely out of control
(and don't even get me started on what SQL Server can do when stuck on a machine with an healthy amount of RAM (12+G), those things can screw up almost anything - bar enterprise solutions - that isn't tuned to handle the rather specific load they tend to generate with the checkpointing).
RAID-5 is simply not recommended for applications requiring performance, it's perfectly suited to archival storage (if you're not using tapes) and fileservers (where you would mostly see sequential read/write), and with a spare drive or two they're in most cases "safe enough", but when it comes to systems running 24/7 with loads ranging from "a lot" to "omfg" there is simply no alternative to a sweet-ass RAID-10-system.
But then again, times may have changed since I was buried deep inside the innards of storage solutions. In that case, get off my lawn!
What ? You'd need a pretty malicious (and unrealistic) corner-case for even writing to be slower on RAID5 vs single disk, and read performance will be similar to RAID0.
Not really. Any cases that force a write without a fully-cached block will initiate a read from all the disks and new parity calculation and then a write. Anything other than raw sequential writes will be slower, since there are a lot more IOPS than simply writing a block to a lone drive.
YMMV though, depending on how much cache you have ("RAID-5 Cards"(tm) with no internal cache == performance killer TO THE MAX), but r-5 _is_ a slow writer. It is however a fast reader, and the greatly reduced costs (and, with a lesser number of disks, the lower chance of complete and utter breakdown) compared to RAID-1 (or, if you're thusly inclined, RAID-10) usually make up for it.
A decent R-5 with a large enough cache will give you good/great performance, whereas a R-10 will most likely (again, dependent on actual use patterns) give you a couple of notches more.
</rant>
the "just works"-factor, the factor that made me say "oh fine whatever" and switch to a Macbook Pro as a work-laptop. After an upgrade botched my carefully handcrafted xorg.conf and left me with a semi-working dual screen setup, mac was the way to go. Plug the external screen in, everything dims and comes back two seconds later, running in glorious extended desktop/xinerama mode with full 3D acceleration everywhere. That's a "just works"-thing. Program installation? I use the packages available, which has the lovely "little thing" of actually integrating with things like Spotlight, so once I've installed something it's available right away by an apple+space keypress, as opposed to say Launchy on windows or any of the multitude of programs on *nix, which require me to wait until the next time it scans everything to show up. Another "just works"-thing. Headsets, more specifically USB ones, get plugged in, and then get selected when i do something like run Skype. Last time I ventured in to getting-logitech-usb-headset-to-play-with-skype-land in linux, it eventually ended up working - KINDA (but that kinda might have been related to the relative immaturity of skype on linux at the time), whereas - again - on the Mac it's no problem whatsoever. "Just works". And so on, and so on. I don't mind at all to tinker with configs and clis, and have done so extensively over the past many years, but when I sit down to do my job - I want stuff to "just work". It's a big waste of time having to craft configs for simple things like dual monitors and headsets, and it's honestly something I don't want to spend time with when I'm on a deadline. So until things start "just working", linux is confined to my servers and my private "workstation" (which is kinda set up like the servers), but for anyone getting a new machine to actually USE, I would point them towards a Mac with the whole of my body. It. Just. Works.
Oh mod points, where art thou?
"And you, sir, are worse than Hitler."
So much for the new levels of openness and transparency that the Olympics were supposed to usher in.
Like anyone actually believed that.
South Korean researchers have created a robotic plant which acts like real ones.
The robotic plant can interact with people when they approach, and it can 'dance' when music is played.
I guess it's now actually safe to say that Asia is just simply not like the rest of the world, apparently even down to plant-life.
Or how about: "Good thing he doesn't play the tuba".
s/tuba/pipe organ/
Difference is that apple has not released anything, nor have they confirmed that they are releasing anything, it's all just speculation - ergo not newsworthy at all. In other news: Scientists say that the sun will rise again tomorrow. Stay tuned for more information, and pre-rise photos of famous landmarks.
The black robes are completely awesome, but be sure to get the Charles Darwin Limited Edition ones: they have extra pockets for incendiary devices and come with an evolution of man-popup.
I think you're reading too much into my post. As stated, the pythonic "yaaay" and the rest of the sentence following it pointing out that that alone wasn't lethargic enough, it's not about intolerance, it's about complete and utter disinterest.
I couldn't care less about furries, so i place them into the same slot i place vegetarians and christians: people who i don't care about unless they shove their sexual preference, eating habits or insanity in my face. I merely find it amusing that both Sony and MS decide to clone something that is somehow dedicated to flying penises en masse, furries and misplaced "embassies".