Posts by Destroy All Monsters
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Could it be the SSD was running in a RAID 1 and both sides went away at the same time?
Relevant: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/05/the-hot-crazy-solid-state-drive-scale.html
Well no.
You are NOT following a geodesic through spacetime when you are carried along by the ocean bed.
Wasn't there a rumor that it actually went down in the Andes, and some worry about the local indian family that found the RTG Pu pallets and is now using these to keep warm at night?
Why yes!
Present consists in pieces of coal accelerated to several hundred meters per second for good measure.
Posted in Flash stalks Seagate's hybrid drives
Like driving without safety belts
I guess an OS-supported infrastructure to detect that an SSD is a burnout and to automatically "eject it safely" and reconfigure to the harddisk instead of taking the whole machine down with it would be useful.
I would generate some interesting "BONG!" alerts.
Ok, it's bad but...
The alternative is scantily clad presentation bunnies of asian descent just barely not showing pubes.
Do we want that?
Someone hasn't paid enough campaign contributions yet.
It's election year, ya know?
John Brunner hadn't seen anything
"It all comes down to money".
SNORT!
To hear this when 700 billion USD per annum are blown on the *official* flecktarned reichcircus alone [tendency: going UP] is unbelievable.
The hallowed military of the democratic welfare/warfare state is now just about feeding revenues to be seized from the populace *in the future* to arbitrary companies *now* depending on how much their lobbyists have been working the Central Palace Corridors. That some people in foreign lands get turned into metal-peppered steak, cripples or anatomical displays in torture cellars is totally ancillary and actually meaningless. This can be easily seen in that no political result or success whatsoever has been obtained in the last 20 years. Indeed, things are just getting started on the downhill slope with no politician (no politician not considered "extreme" or "on the fringe" or "unelectable") pulling the handbrake.
Guess the few shavings for the good people of Microsoft are just natural.
http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2012/01/varieties-of-pissing.html
"In the parlance of the day, or what would be that parlance if we spoke more plainly, we can say with accuracy and precision: The ruling class of the United States pisses on the entire world, just as it pisses on every human being who is not favored by privilege and power. This is the ultimate foundation of our lives today. This is the truth that will almost never be spoken."
Nah
That happens about every 5 years. It happen in '92 too with compression below the theoretical minimum, but I can't find the "ZOMG GREAT" and "LOL SCEPTICAL" articles from Byte back...
Not sure what is being said here...
"Monopolies" illegal? Since when? That's what "Intellectual Property" is all about.
The ones where "Antitrust" is involved are mainly about The Need For Taxes or a Friendly Ear for the Competitor, really. Or about bureaucrats trying palliative measures for problems that "Intellectual Property" legislation has created in the first place. Great job.
Now, we got that out of the way...
"But it's clear that in an increasingly digitised world, the delivery mechanism is the big key to creating value and maximising financial returns."
Thank you for the marketing shop boilerplate. But wasn't this always so? A mall creates value because it functions as a convenient delivery mechanism with all-in-one shopping, something that the corner shop cannot deliver. Amazon creates value - whether it delivers digital media or paper media - but offering nearly anything in a controllable manner, something that the corner bookstore cannot deliver. (Anyone who tried to order a book back in the 80s based on ISBN knows how abysmally unreliable bookstores were in delivering the goods.) This is why they die out or why to need to cater to the "non-connected" people or the book-browsing crowd (but then again, when you browse, the person behind the counter will look at you askance. Do I need this? Hell no.)
Hey, more books are being sold, "content creators" have the chance to reach more people and sell more stuff, it's great.
There is only one problem with above: lock-in DRMed formats and arbitary control by the distributor even after the purchase was made. Why is this even possible? Look under "Intellectual Property Legislation". Then be less slothful and go to somewhat shady sites where scans and PDFs can be had free of charge. In the latter case, only I win or maybe the "unauthorized reseller", but hey, the marketplace is not a controlled environment.
Well, it *is* Lubos. If he isn't doing defending String Theory by Vociferous Attack or commenting on politics, you should be able to trust him.
> lot of 'science' suffers from the same human failing of dogmatic belief that religion has
This B.S. is repeatedly professed as truth by "soft" science academics, "truthers" and people how think that math has been invented by The Man to put down the peasants. But it's just not true. You may have to *wait* thirty years for attitudes to be reoriented until the egos occupying the ivory tower have died, but compare this to the 4000+ years that humanity has been plagued by abrahamic religions.
> dismissed as crank theory
> e.g plants having sexuality
WAHT!
> relativity vs Newtonian mechanics
history shows that it wasn't dismissed as "cranky" AT ALL, indeed it gave a fresh look at the problems that others tried to crack with unwieldy and bizarre ideas given EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE. Hard-core Newtonians weren't happy. They were wrong.
> quantum vs classical physics
history shows that it wasn't dismissed as "cranky" AT ALL, indeed it gave a fresh look at the problems that others tried to crack with unwieldy and bizarre ideas given EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE. Hard-core Classicists (like Einstein) weren't happy. They were wrong.
"Damn I lost my singularity, it fell through the floor."
> I don't think a device that gives out free energy would take off much up in Mullumbimby
OTOH, a device that produces Copper from Nickel would probably blow up much of Mullumbimby.
Could not find anything under "Faith". Did you mean "Fail"?
You just need to have about 2 years of engineering on your résumé to learn that designing and building an artifact doing stuff in the real world is fraught with risk because nature WILL confront you with configuration spaces larger than you imagined and exhibit the FRANKLY DISTURBING tendency to change the state of your artifact from a controlled region to one of the VASTLY LARGER regions next to it, with those regions labelled "here be failure", "don't go here" and "your wife just left you", and this RANDOMLY and EXPONENTIALLY MORE FREQUENTLY the more complex your artifact is.
WHAT!
"The ability to use DC as well as AC power supplies ... the DC power supply can take 48 volt or 60 volt power, while the AC unit can scale from 100 volts to 240 volts.
Ok. Why don't "commodity" servers have that kind of extra option? Do only telecom-historical racks have DC? Doesn't DC reduce hardware bolt-ons? Or does it INCREASE hardware bolt-ons?
"if you want redundancy. The DC supplies cost a couple grand extra."
Why so expensive?
"In this case a maximum of two 1,200 watters"
Can one actually put more than a couple of those machines in the same rack without blowing the room's breakers? I can't imagine. The cooling effort must be tremendous, too.
What, no monitoring of /b/?
Sun Tzu you say? This shall be updated for the American Age:
"If you don't not know your enemies nor your friends nor yourself, if you don't know whether you are spending too much or too little, if you don't know left from right or right from wrong, if your only hope for survival is to invent military problems, if you have no brake to your ambitions, no sanity in your economic reasoning and you are ridden by arrogance and hubris like a sick horse, then you will be forever known as the gigantic faggot."
Posted in Best-selling games of 2011 revealed
c--tfield 3?
I can't fit anything in there. "cattlefield 3" does not match.
"I think zero punctuation had last year pretty well summed up for mainstream top and bottom 5 games"
This doesn't even reach RACTER level. What is being said here?
Posted in Australia should head-hunt Michael Gove
Or they could just call the IEEE or the ACM.
But thhere should be no problem with *people from* Microsoft and Google helping to shape the curriculum, as long as they are not the people from the penetrative tentacle arm injecting requirements on products. There's good and bad in companies.
Ohhh.. nooo....
"Boogeyman-du-jour comes just behind economic fears about income disparity and fiscal imbalances, and concern about rising greenhouse gas emissions."
No mention about the actual economic meltdown and the evils of paper money, fractional bank reserves an the destabilizing effect of central banks? Ah, but that would be challenging to the current order of the clowns. Better look into uh ... cyberterrorists and global warming. Enlightening.
Le résumé de la situation -> http://mises.org/daily/5837/Some-Additional-Reflections-on-the-Economic-Crisis-and-the-Theory-of-the-Cycle
That was Philip K. Dick, you illiterate person!
Optional
> NASUWT challenged the notion that current IT teaching was "dull" It is not? Says who? > Removing the curriculum in the subject risked short-changing pupils HOW? > and creating a free for all Oh no, disorganization. IT MUST BE BAD. > Adding that school teaching shouldn't be left to the agendas of multinational companies. Preferring that school teaching should be left to the agenda of well-meaning left-leaning decision makers who like to mind other peoples' business. What could go wrong? Pretty apropos: http://mises.org/daily/5862/University-Guildsmen-and-Anticapitalism
Well that's easy
"away from the big bang?"
Nope, because the Big Bang is not "somewhere" but "somewhen" - in your past! In fact, it "is" your past, in the same sense as the Big Crunch "is" your future (if there is one, which seems to not be the case)
Do not envision the Big Bang as a point in space but rather as space coming into hot existence *everywhere* (where "everywhere" could be a closed universe just a few planck lengths across or possibly a universe already of infinite size) with time starting off *from then* (with the "future" direction most probably not even well defined)
Citation needed.
"Actually the *size* of the observable universe is around 95 billion light-years (in diameter)."
Doubtful.
When you receive your redshifted photon NOW, by measuring the redshift you know how long (and thus how far) it has travelled: 13 billion years. I assume that you try to say that the galaxy is "now" 95 billion light years away, but there is no well-defined "now" in that sense. Special relativity gets rid of simultaneity of events, and quite viciously so the further away these events are (just changing one's speed *here* by a meter per second shifts the relative times of events in Andromeda by many years IIRC)
Only one side has nukes though...
If this escalates, we will see whether the Saudis fly their US gear better than the Israelis do theirs.
Crazed irate Wahabbis vs. Bonkers irate Zionists ... FIGHT!
TAX THE SINFUL FALLEN TO SAVE THEIR HEALTH!
"It would deliver a hefty $13bn in revenue to the hard-pressed US exchequer"
Promptly blown on such health-improving devices like The Depleted Uranium Sand Denizen Enduring Genetic Improvement Project (DUSDE-GIP).
I also think the US economy could currently use 13 billion "in the pocket" that are not being "redistributed" by confused left-wing programs, even it is currently spend on giving people the sugary shakes. Why not consider the absence of tax a stimulus?
Beer now!
Pfffrttttt!! Muahaha!!!
"Content from News Corporation – Fox broadcast programming, The Wall Street Journal .... "
Hey kid, ready to listen to your warmongering govnmt-propaganda propelling XBox after a game of Halo?
The founding fathers, indeed.
Nothing?
Some bearded dude woken up by the probe bouncing into the stage lighting, yelling "CUT!", more like.
Prof! Slight correction!
"particles and antiparticles, the antiparticle falling into the black hole and causing it to lose mass"
Actually, either of the particle and antiparticle call "fall in", so the black hole would be seen to emit particles and antiparticles in equal amounts (except if there were some mechanism that would be biased to one side or the other, who knows).
"If we are so worried about them building up their military, perhaps we should stop paying them to make it."
I have rarely read anything more ignorant, stupid or ass-backwards.
Jesus F. Christ!
"every sat nav maker should be legally required to provide free, or at least cheap (as in £10 a year), map updates"
Well, FU too.
The big problem with socialists is that, at some point in time, they run out of other people's money.
The MSM is far too busy...
...drumming up support for the war on Iran at the behest of the Israeli extremely-far right and assorted X-tian end-timers in the US.
There is also the important story about how the economy is going to recover ANY MOMENT NOW. We have to know what Michelle Obama is doing. Oh yeah, the presidential election freakshow is there too. Then we have the total defeat, sorry I mean VICTORY, in Iraq and the continuing SUCCESS in Afghanistan.
Have pity on them.
So I heard you like X11 ...
I remember his Billsian Gateness proclaiming the X server idea (or maybe the protocol) as "insanely dumb", then proceeding to fag up the world with crashing fat clients.
Ah well, good ideas don't die, they just come back rebadged and appropriated.
Also, arcelormittal.com defaced
Earth silently turns.
While Wild trolls do their stuff.
You want a better world?
I give you politicians.
You successfully completed previous mission!
The pilot has a new mission!
-> Make Imperial US flush constitution and go bonkers by crashing into random buildings.
Press left mouse button for "ALLAHU AKBAHR"
But to what?
To the "WozCompanion™" action figurine?
Posted in Parasites spark swarm of ZOMBIE BEES
Fracking chestbusters!
How come these things are discovered by accident then found to infect 77% of the hives?
It is pretty astonishing, we can photograph the arsehair of a peacenik from orbit, then pull his telephone friend list from a data silo before we dispatch Mighty Guy In Blue armed with capsicum delivery systems for a hold&confront .. but bees are just the outer limits?
And mobes influencing bees? Yeah right.
This comment section is a goldmine of copypasta!
It shall be put to use in future trolling attempts.
But really, I blame the popular press administered in unhealthy doses to people who are psychologically incapable of correctly - quantitatively or qualitatively - gauging cause-effect relationships, paired with paranoia. Something with "people with different needs" of the mind.
I have a colleague like that, locks on to any unlikely stuff you can find as long as it flies in the face of reality. If in the quiescent phase, she tries to push bizarro ideas on why Quantum Mechanics is wrong and can actually be explained by <pet hidden variable theory that makes no use of mathematics whatsoever and must therefore be correct>. She was going full antivaxer during the last flu flap, with claims about nasty holocausty tricks to reduce population count.
Deplorable
The US still isn't getting that it's not the center of the universe?
Excellent!
It would definitely be an improvement over the ICBM-like bunker-with-carpet atmosphere that I'm surviving in now.
But can I have with a simulation of a STALKER-like blowout to get the coworkers to work instead of waiting, coffee in hand, for database fixes?
We must be imagining this!
Self-styled "Presidential Material" out of Amurrica keeps insisting that "there is no Palestine", so doxing Israeli credit cards must be as material as doxing credit cards from Hobbitburg, right?
Clearly another take on
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/01/03/japan_cyber_weapon_research/
I still don't understand what they are trying to do. There is no general "antivirus" in this universe. This is like paying for a broom. It may come in handy if you find dust in your house, but if the problem is an inch of water in the cellar, what you gonna do?
They really should spend the money for designing good management practices or for serious engineering of trustworthy and open OS and hardware, even if it's only for bolt-on stuff like SELinux.
This is not the Beyond!
People who downvote AC here are clear into Kuang Grade Mark 11.
Posted in The Commodore 64 is 30
That reminds me of the time I sweated hell after running POKE all through the memory (then my parents threw me out of the room and I couldn't continue "work"). I was unsure during the whole of the next day whether I had destroyed the machine ... noob along several dimensions, me.
"Physicists working for CERN in September fired a beam of 15,000 neutrinos from Geneva, LHC's HQ, to Gran Sasso in Italy"
That would be "fired many many beams of many man very high-energy neutrinos through 700km of rock and about 15'000 of the neutrinos were found to do something in the detector"
"only to find the particles completed the 730km journey 60 nanoseconds faster than light would have."
Only to find that measurement devices indicated that the particles completed the 730km journey 60 nanoseconds faster than light; finding no obvious errors in the setup they went public.
Hope of this result standing up to scrutiny: 0.0000000001%
"Politicians may focus on ways to get consumers to spend more money in an effort to rebuild their economies"
Politicans may do so but that just means they are ignorants, can't think and don't define their words. Or they are actually "vote me in, feed me taxes and fuck you all" evil.
I think a better example should be found.
"By this time the US will have broken apart into a loose confederation of sometimes warring states"
FIXED
My care-o-meter is at zero your "Hurr Amurrica" attitude is obnoxious.
Nitric Acid + Hydrazine, basically?
Gives people living under the shadow of Baikonour liver failure. Definitely not good stuff.
I don't give a Wick Rotation
MFW anon believes that academic types don't have overinflated egos.
Just check out some blogs.
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