Comment Re:Captain Kirk to the Rescue (again) (Score 1) 80
He never said that. The movie you think you're quoting doesn't exist. I bet you think they made sequels to The Matrix too.
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He never said that. The movie you think you're quoting doesn't exist. I bet you think they made sequels to The Matrix too.
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When it takes off for Jupiter
is when I get interested
Tsien would have left a few years ago.
How come Christians are the only ones that are asked to suffer this unconstitutional prohibition on their free exercise?
Did you miss the part where the second item in the lawsuit was a Menorah?
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Don't take it out on others just because you're imperfect and ignore all of the S.M.A.R.T. and controller warnings... Some of us tech Gurus do religiously tend to our flock of hard-drives and recognize when they are in spiritual, and physical, need of replacement....
I do hardware diagnostics for an HPC storage system vendor, including drive testing, qualification, and failure analysis. SMART has its uses, but, in my experience, if you've tripped SMART, you're already in serious trouble.
It's not helped by the fact that pieces of SMART which are actually in the ATA standards are basically tripped/not-tripped - none of the attribute structures are in the current specs, let alone which attribute IDs mean what. Heck, even getting the thresholds is no longer in the ATA standard!
Fortunately, *most* vendors implement *most* of the SMART structures the same way, and *most* use the same attribute IDs to mean the same things, and *most* still implement the sub-command for getting the thresholds. But all the really interesting data that could be used for more aggressive failure prediction (i.e. beyond the almost-always too late SMART trip) is vendor specific, and getting that information out of some vendors makes pulling teeth look like taking candy from a baby.
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with only two manufacturers of 3.5in form factor hard drives (seagate, wdc)
Samsung?
Actually, it's Hitachi. And Toshiba has (re?)entered the 3.5" space, at least on the enterprise side of the world - I have no idea if they make consumer 3.5" drives.
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If there were call centers setup in the US to cater to Indian clients then why would they be speaking English in the first place?
Because English is one of the official languages of India, and is spoken in every state.
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... And also, does the above mean that Gnome is no longer using GCC to compile, but switching to the LLVM compiler?
LLVM is designed to be modular. It sounds like what they're doing is probably similar to what Apple did a few years back - include LLVM bit-code files for functions that aren't handled natively, then hand those off to libllvm to emit native code when needed.
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I've read comments in past stories about the iOS developer program from people who own a Mac but still can't develop because the Mac is too old to run recent Xcode. So you end up having to depreciate the Mac and the iPod touch on which to test as annual expenses just like the developer fee.
Apple generally supports the current OS and developer tools on hardware going back three years, for both Macs and iPods/iPhones.
If you've determined to never pay back all your treasury bonds, how can treasury bonds be a stable investment?
You pay them all back, you just also issue new ones, which you will also pay back.
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... (Only works in browsers which recognize the data: URI scheme. Tested in FF and Opera.)
Works in Safari 5.1.1 (on OS X Lion) as well.
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... (unlike the patent-a-rectangle nature of the opposition)
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As previously stated, it's not a patent on round-rects:
I came across this yesterday and found it interesting (comparisons of what Samsung's tablets looked like before and after the iPad came out):
It seems like it's not quite as silly as it's usually been presented. (Don't get me wrong, I do think it's silly.)
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Oh, and the Argus Array in the book was located outside Socorro, New Mexico. Guess where the VLA is located?
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In Contact, the facility Ellie was at when The Message started arriving was called the Argus Array. Then when they made the movie, they actually used the VLA and called it the VLA. So why not make life imitate art and go with the Argus Array.
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UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn