No, RAID is *not* a backup, RAID's only purpose is to improve reliability/uptime by letting you ride through hardware failures,
This, RAID is high availability and in no way a backup.
Why?
Because if data gets corrupted or accidentally deleted it gets corrupted or accidentally deleted across the entire array. RAID will keep you going if a disk dies (most of the time) but it wont recover data. Also remember RAID is vulnerable to the RAID controller dying (had that happen to an Adaptec years ago, it was a good thing we had backups).
No, "rock star" developers are a recruitment term. Developers (or any professional) who can sell themselves on their own merits doesn't need a term like "rock star" to describe themselves, their work speaks for itself.
The arrogance varies
Yes, for self described "rock stars" the arrogance varies from "extreme" to "weapons grade".
glorified sysadmin
Dev's who are personable and competent would never look down on another persons position, are not only capable of working in teams but will help to train the younger or less skilled developers. Above all of this they are capable of delegating tasks to both junior and senior developers and documenting the process so that in the unfortunate scenario they fall under a bus, another developer could take over.
To rely on a single developer (or any IT professional) to fix everything is incredibly stupid but whats even worse is big noting this person because when they get offered even more money (or just get bored) you'll be the one up shit creek without a paddle. Reward competence but dont pander to egos. A good professional realises that they're part of a team, even if they are the only Dev/Sysadmin/DBA/ETC... there are still others in the business you work with, who depend on what you do and you also depend on what they do.
If it is all just "security theater," the "patrons" seem a bit over-armed.
As much as I agree with you, the TSA is overkill.
Airport security should be able to detect guns without 3D scanners and "enhanced pat downs". Same with terrorist plots, airport security is the absolute last line of defence, we shouldn't arm it or treat it as the first line.
Ah crap, I knew this was too phonetic for forum humor. And I hate explaining my own jokes... sucks the life right out of them. But heregoes anyways:
Dont worry about explaining your joke killing the humour, it had none to begin with.
To those of us who speak English, "6C" sounds like Six Cee, which ends up being more like "Sick Sea" when said fast. In English, the "i" vowel sound is more like "ai" or "aye", not "ee". This is why we dont spell sex with an i.
I'm sorry, but the 5C is $99 on contract, which is similar to many Android phones that are better. In addition, the off-contract price is $599 (CAD) for 5C 16GB... how is that a "cheap" phone? The nexus is, what, $350? Give me a break.
Is the off contract price unlocked?
Here in Australia if you buy an Iphone from a carrier, it was locked to that carrier even if you paid full price. Once carrier that I know of even hard coded their APN's in there so it was impossible to run it on another carrier if you wanted data.
"See Apple, the thing is, these big media events used to be about introducing jaw-dropping, mind blowing new technology."
Has Apple ever been about 'mind blowing new technology'? As long as I can remember, they've been about well polished, high-production-value implementations of technology that already existed.
Nope, they're all about marketing which is why people are arguing about whether they're about "mind blowing" or "well polished" technology.
In reality they have never been mind blowing or well polished, just very, very slick salesmen.
Cheap USB sticks with bad sodder jobs or cheap PCB's might be subject to shock but the flash itself is most certainly NOT.
For the sake of whatever deity you believe in, "sodder" is not a word. It's solder (pronounced how it's written, "sol" and "der"). How people get sodder from a word that clearly has an L in it is beyond me.
They didn't make the Breaking Bad series, they're not the ones who decided to split up the season in two. What's next, suing Apple because the new pop music album is crap?
Apple sold the pass, they are obliged to meet provide the product that has been paid for. Countries with consumer protection laws make this quite clear, Apple must either provide the product as described at the time of sale or a refund.
Apple should be suing the production company for its losses.
People didn't want an Abbott government, that was made quite clear by the ~4% swing against Labor translating to only a 1.5% swing to the Libs (in first preference votes).
Yep,
As much as the Murdoch and Reinheart papers would like to pretend, Abbott got in by a narrow margin and if minor parties end up ruling a hostile senate he's already promised a Double Dissolution (wikipedia link) which typically does not bode well for the government that calls it.
But if the Liberals truly wanted a landslide win, they should have put Turnbull in charge. Tony Abbott is too extreme on the right and Australians typically prefer centrists (this was what Gillard and Rudd had going for them) which Turnbull is. Turnbull is also a populist. Turnbull vs anyone in Labour would have resulted in a massive swing to the Libs. Unfortunately, unlike Abbott, Turnbull wont be a puppet for Liberal powerbrokers.
We've elected the faceless men. All we can hope for is a hostile senate.
I found the truly scary part is that the Australian Labor Party still got a reasonable amount of the vote. I wonder just how incompetent a party must become in order to be abandoned.
I suspect it is because the Labor government was not as incompetent as some people say. Sure debt is higher than is it was when Labor took power, but they came in just as the GFC was kicking in so they had to start with a big spending initiative to keep the economy going (which worked very well). They also have a policy of building infrastructure (like the NBN) rather than selling it all off (eg privatisation of Telstra).
This, any Australian who thinks there is a difference between the economic policies of the parties is deluded. We've followed the same basic strategy since Keating (Early 90's for the non-Aussies playing along at home).
The difference between the parties is in their social policies and even then, there isn't a huge divide. Both seem very well rooted in middle class welfare.
Where they were incompetent was in allowing an internal power struggle to play out in public. So much attention was paid to the Rudd-Gillard tug of war that even if they ran a perfect government nobody would remember it.
This, The Labor govt actually did quite a bit for schools and hospitals, but unfortunately this is what will be remembered.
"I've been pulled over a few times when they get no laser return off it and told to get a new plate. "
And you just ignore them.
And the cops make your life a living hell. Doubly so if the GP lives in a small town.
A previous employer of mine had this issue, license plates would come back bent. In Australia it _is_ the law that license plates must be readable. Bending them back is a pain so what my employer did was simply re-mount the plates above bumper rather than below it. OK now if they hit anything, it'll go through the intercooler rather than the numberplate but Land Cruisers are normally high enough that this isn't a problem.
Point in short, the GP should do something to protect his numberplate if he is sick of copping crap about it.
Is it? Is there any *real* evidence that pure nicotine, in these sort of doses, is actually harmful for you, when not associated with tars, benzene, and all the other nasties in cig smoke? Or is it more like caffeine, where it might exactly be "healthy", but the real risk at typical usage levels is miniscule.
I dont think it would be healthy per se, but definitely not worse than the other crap we're legally using (alcohol, pain killers, apple products). The big problem with Tobacco is not nicotine, but the other carcinogenic chemicals included as you pointed out.
The problem we have with Nicotine is that its addictive, but considering E-Cigs are an attempt to wean tobacco addicts onto a less dangerous product I'd say it's a huge step in the right direction.
Sure, the article says "Mr Leyonhjelm accepts his party probably gained votes in error, with voters thinking they were choosing the Liberals."... but what else is he supposed to say?
I think the mistake was that the voter simply didn't care. I highly doubt, as dumb as Liberal voters are that they would accidentally vote Liberal Democrat as opposed to Liberal.
What happened is that apathetic voters simply put 1 into the first box on the page and dumped the paper into the Ballot box. They really didn't care who was in the box, they just voted to avoid being fined (yes, in Australia if you dont vote you get a fine).
I'm just glad one of the obviously racist parties (One Nation, Stable Population) wasn't in pole position.
But Apple needs to respond to the will of the market.
It's Apples "my way or the highway" attitude that will sink it to single figure market share. This is the exact problem Nokia had under Elop, they refused to do what their customers wanted them to do. Android phones have long since eclipsed Apple's offerings and Apple has been living off two things, vendor lock-in and emotional attaches. These wont last forever.
If Apple does changes, there is no guarantee that they will gain customers or even maintain the same customer base. However if Apple does not change it will bleed customers until all they have left are the hardcore fanboys.
The vast majority of Muslims kinda sorta do that, although many fudge the praying 5 times a day part when it's inconvenient, and many never make it to Mecca. The idea, very popular in some Christian circles, that all Muslims are some sort of barbarian horde that would destroy everything good in the world if given a chance, just doesn't match up with reality.
This, the overwhelming majority of Muslims are normal people who just want to get on with their lives. Same with Jews, Buddhists, Christians, Hindu's, Taoists, Baha'i, Jedis, Pastafarians and most other religions you care to name.
Now we can hardly demand the entire Jedi order to be dismantled and all force users to be drowned at birth just because a few fell to the dark side.
BTW, I'm an atheist, a proper atheist which means I dont believe in god but I also dont really mind what other people believe in as long as they dont force it on others.
Key Lime Pie is less common than kit kats? Look, I enjoy kitkats, always have, but I've had way more key lime pie in my life. It's kinda sad that your country in general feels the reverse. Sad, and not unexpected.
Yes,
Outside the US (in fact I've been told outside Florida) no one has any clue what Key Lime Pie is. It certainly isn't readily available in my country (Australia) where as you can find kitkats in every supermarket and milk bar.
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No, RAID is *not* a backup, RAID's only purpose is to improve reliability/uptime by letting you ride through hardware failures,
This, RAID is high availability and in no way a backup.
Why?
Because if data gets corrupted or accidentally deleted it gets corrupted or accidentally deleted across the entire array. RAID will keep you going if a disk dies (most of the time) but it wont recover data. Also remember RAID is vulnerable to the RAID controller dying (had that happen to an Adaptec years ago, it was a good thing we had backups).
A rare reverse-car analogy folks
Personally I prefer my car analogies to be in a forward gear.
Yes, for self described "rock stars" the arrogance varies from "extreme" to "weapons grade".
Dev's who are personable and competent would never look down on another persons position, are not only capable of working in teams but will help to train the younger or less skilled developers. Above all of this they are capable of delegating tasks to both junior and senior developers and documenting the process so that in the unfortunate scenario they fall under a bus, another developer could take over.
To rely on a single developer (or any IT professional) to fix everything is incredibly stupid but whats even worse is big noting this person because when they get offered even more money (or just get bored) you'll be the one up shit creek without a paddle. Reward competence but dont pander to egos. A good professional realises that they're part of a team, even if they are the only Dev/Sysadmin/DBA/ETC... there are still others in the business you work with, who depend on what you do and you also depend on what they do.
TSA finds average of 4 guns each day at airports, with number continuing to rise since 2007
If it is all just "security theater," the "patrons" seem a bit over-armed.
As much as I agree with you, the TSA is overkill.
Airport security should be able to detect guns without 3D scanners and "enhanced pat downs". Same with terrorist plots, airport security is the absolute last line of defence, we shouldn't arm it or treat it as the first line.
Ah crap, I knew this was too phonetic for forum humor. And I hate explaining my own jokes... sucks the life right out of them. But heregoes anyways:
Dont worry about explaining your joke killing the humour, it had none to begin with.
To those of us who speak English, "6C" sounds like Six Cee, which ends up being more like "Sick Sea" when said fast. In English, the "i" vowel sound is more like "ai" or "aye", not "ee". This is why we dont spell sex with an i.
So really, does the Iphone make you sea sick?
I'm sorry, but the 5C is $99 on contract, which is similar to many Android phones that are better. In addition, the off-contract price is $599 (CAD) for 5C 16GB... how is that a "cheap" phone? The nexus is, what, $350? Give me a break.
Is the off contract price unlocked?
Here in Australia if you buy an Iphone from a carrier, it was locked to that carrier even if you paid full price. Once carrier that I know of even hard coded their APN's in there so it was impossible to run it on another carrier if you wanted data.
"See Apple, the thing is, these big media events used to be about introducing jaw-dropping, mind blowing new technology."
Has Apple ever been about 'mind blowing new technology'? As long as I can remember, they've been about well polished, high-production-value implementations of technology that already existed.
Nope, they're all about marketing which is why people are arguing about whether they're about "mind blowing" or "well polished" technology.
In reality they have never been mind blowing or well polished, just very, very slick salesmen.
Cheap USB sticks with bad sodder jobs or cheap PCB's might be subject to shock but the flash itself is most certainly NOT.
For the sake of whatever deity you believe in, "sodder" is not a word. It's solder (pronounced how it's written, "sol" and "der"). How people get sodder from a word that clearly has an L in it is beyond me.
Next years surprise, Ford releases the 2015 model of the Focus! Shocking! Who could ever see that coming?
This is Jeremy Clarkson's surprised face.
They didn't make the Breaking Bad series, they're not the ones who decided to split up the season in two. What's next, suing Apple because the new pop music album is crap?
Apple sold the pass, they are obliged to meet provide the product that has been paid for. Countries with consumer protection laws make this quite clear, Apple must either provide the product as described at the time of sale or a refund. Apple should be suing the production company for its losses.
People didn't want an Abbott government, that was made quite clear by the ~4% swing against Labor translating to only a 1.5% swing to the Libs (in first preference votes).
Yep,
As much as the Murdoch and Reinheart papers would like to pretend, Abbott got in by a narrow margin and if minor parties end up ruling a hostile senate he's already promised a Double Dissolution (wikipedia link) which typically does not bode well for the government that calls it.
But if the Liberals truly wanted a landslide win, they should have put Turnbull in charge. Tony Abbott is too extreme on the right and Australians typically prefer centrists (this was what Gillard and Rudd had going for them) which Turnbull is. Turnbull is also a populist. Turnbull vs anyone in Labour would have resulted in a massive swing to the Libs. Unfortunately, unlike Abbott, Turnbull wont be a puppet for Liberal powerbrokers.
We've elected the faceless men. All we can hope for is a hostile senate.
I found the truly scary part is that the Australian Labor Party still got a reasonable amount of the vote. I wonder just how incompetent a party must become in order to be abandoned.
I suspect it is because the Labor government was not as incompetent as some people say. Sure debt is higher than is it was when Labor took power, but they came in just as the GFC was kicking in so they had to start with a big spending initiative to keep the economy going (which worked very well). They also have a policy of building infrastructure (like the NBN) rather than selling it all off (eg privatisation of Telstra).
This, any Australian who thinks there is a difference between the economic policies of the parties is deluded. We've followed the same basic strategy since Keating (Early 90's for the non-Aussies playing along at home).
The difference between the parties is in their social policies and even then, there isn't a huge divide. Both seem very well rooted in middle class welfare.
Where they were incompetent was in allowing an internal power struggle to play out in public. So much attention was paid to the Rudd-Gillard tug of war that even if they ran a perfect government nobody would remember it.
This, The Labor govt actually did quite a bit for schools and hospitals, but unfortunately this is what will be remembered.
"I've been pulled over a few times when they get no laser return off it and told to get a new plate. "
And you just ignore them.
And the cops make your life a living hell. Doubly so if the GP lives in a small town.
A previous employer of mine had this issue, license plates would come back bent. In Australia it _is_ the law that license plates must be readable. Bending them back is a pain so what my employer did was simply re-mount the plates above bumper rather than below it. OK now if they hit anything, it'll go through the intercooler rather than the numberplate but Land Cruisers are normally high enough that this isn't a problem.
Point in short, the GP should do something to protect his numberplate if he is sick of copping crap about it.
Is it? Is there any *real* evidence that pure nicotine, in these sort of doses, is actually harmful for you, when not associated with tars, benzene, and all the other nasties in cig smoke? Or is it more like caffeine, where it might exactly be "healthy", but the real risk at typical usage levels is miniscule.
I dont think it would be healthy per se, but definitely not worse than the other crap we're legally using (alcohol, pain killers, apple products). The big problem with Tobacco is not nicotine, but the other carcinogenic chemicals included as you pointed out.
The problem we have with Nicotine is that its addictive, but considering E-Cigs are an attempt to wean tobacco addicts onto a less dangerous product I'd say it's a huge step in the right direction.
Sure, the article says "Mr Leyonhjelm accepts his party probably gained votes in error, with voters thinking they were choosing the Liberals." ... but what else is he supposed to say?
I think the mistake was that the voter simply didn't care. I highly doubt, as dumb as Liberal voters are that they would accidentally vote Liberal Democrat as opposed to Liberal.
What happened is that apathetic voters simply put 1 into the first box on the page and dumped the paper into the Ballot box. They really didn't care who was in the box, they just voted to avoid being fined (yes, in Australia if you dont vote you get a fine). I'm just glad one of the obviously racist parties (One Nation, Stable Population) wasn't in pole position.
Apple doesn't need to make shitty free phones,
But Apple needs to respond to the will of the market.
It's Apples "my way or the highway" attitude that will sink it to single figure market share. This is the exact problem Nokia had under Elop, they refused to do what their customers wanted them to do. Android phones have long since eclipsed Apple's offerings and Apple has been living off two things, vendor lock-in and emotional attaches. These wont last forever.
If Apple does changes, there is no guarantee that they will gain customers or even maintain the same customer base. However if Apple does not change it will bleed customers until all they have left are the hardcore fanboys.
Yeah. Duck season.
Rabbit season.
Drone sure is good eatin'
Why else does all Y'all think I need a drone shootin' license.
They've already back-pedalled on this policy faster than Tony Abbott walking into a gay bathhouse.
Which means they'll do it after the election.
I wouldn't be surprised if Tony likes gay bath houses, the most ardent homophobes often hide homosexual desires.
Needless to say, if Tony gets in I'm moving to Singapore, he's our George W Bush.
Just get me a brightly coloured, oversized van.
The vast majority of Muslims kinda sorta do that, although many fudge the praying 5 times a day part when it's inconvenient, and many never make it to Mecca. The idea, very popular in some Christian circles, that all Muslims are some sort of barbarian horde that would destroy everything good in the world if given a chance, just doesn't match up with reality.
This, the overwhelming majority of Muslims are normal people who just want to get on with their lives. Same with Jews, Buddhists, Christians, Hindu's, Taoists, Baha'i, Jedis, Pastafarians and most other religions you care to name.
Now we can hardly demand the entire Jedi order to be dismantled and all force users to be drowned at birth just because a few fell to the dark side.
BTW, I'm an atheist, a proper atheist which means I dont believe in god but I also dont really mind what other people believe in as long as they dont force it on others.
Clearly you've not flown KLM :)
Admittedly, I never have :)
I try to fly Asian airlines (Singapore, Cathay, Thai) whenever possible, as the service and food is miles above everyone else.
Flying QANTAS or BA tends to leave a bad taste in my mouth every time.
Wireless gets them some access which is better than nothing but not even close to fiber. Your not going to magic around the spectrum issues .
This.
But the biggest issue in Africa is not spectrum (yet) it's copper theft.
This is pretty much the only reason wireless is better than wired. There are very few components worth stealing.
Not readily available, but you've obviously heard of pie made with limes.
Actually, no I haven't.
You've heard of pie.
Yes, they are chunks of meat, suspended in gravy encased in pastry, they are essential eating for games of (Australian Rules) Football. Pie.
What's the difference which fruit?
Go eat a tomato pie, then tell me there's no difference.
Key Lime Pie is not used outside the US, in fact the word "pie" in many countries is used to refer to a meat dish. I.E. a shepherds pie.
Key Lime Pie is less common than kit kats? Look, I enjoy kitkats, always have, but I've had way more key lime pie in my life. It's kinda sad that your country in general feels the reverse. Sad, and not unexpected.
Yes, Outside the US (in fact I've been told outside Florida) no one has any clue what Key Lime Pie is. It certainly isn't readily available in my country (Australia) where as you can find kitkats in every supermarket and milk bar.