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Intuitive Coin Design for International Visitors - http://flowingdata.com/2009...
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Kevykev, Itachi, Tony Ruscoe and 27 other people liked this
"You know when you go to another country and have no clue what the coins of the local currency are worth? ... Designer Mac Funamizu puts an idea out there that might solve the woes of international visitors. se wedges and proportions to indicate how much the money is worth."
- Tom Stocky
from Bookmarklet
"Nevermind the increased production costs, storage, and people cutting themselves on coin wedges. They look awesome. Plus - the one- and five-cent pieces can double as bottle openers."
- Tudor Bosman
Very clever
- Ozkan Altuner
from iPhone
Very clever. I love the 2.
- Kevin Fox
Isn't this problem solved by putting numbers on the coins?
- Andrew C
Andrew: not really. 1. not for blind people, and 2. not when fumbling around in your pocket; you end up pulling a handful of coins, and then slowly sifting through them reading every single number, while people behind you in the checkout line are tapping their feet -- an all-too-common event for international travelers.
- Tudor Bosman
Something noted by the designer (http://twitter.com/mac_fun...) is that angular coins might hurt your hand ... but still a cool idea.
- Tom Stocky
Non-round coins are also highly impractical for coin-operated machines that depend on the ability of a coin to roll through a mechanism.
- Kevin Fox
I think it is about time to get rid of most coins. Do we really need pennies and nickles or even dimes? They are almost useless and have very little value. Does anything actually cost 1, 5 or 10 cents anymore? Would be a lot easier if prices were rounded up or down to the nearest quarter or dime.
- Jeff P. Henderson
Currency for the hard of thinking? You could take your eye out with that quarter!
- Ken Morley
Fafblog! the whole world's only source for Fafblog. - http://fafblog.blogspot.com/2008...
"Everything seems to be goin okay til the FBI raid. It turns out butter is now classified as a Schedule I narcotic and I am under arrest on eighteen counts of racketeering, possession with intent to distribute and de-assaulting a police assaulter. I escape in the middle of the night with the help of an unfrozen caveman, an animatronic dinosaur and the robotic head of Alexander Hamilton. We make our way across the countryside disguised as a band of wandering minstrels til I find my way home."
- Tudor Bosman
from Bookmarklet
Why We Should Be Eating Horses
Instead of Riding Them http://theoatmeal.com/story...
WarLord, guruvan (Rob Nelson), Space Cowboy and 5 other people liked this
But after seeing the second picture in that post, I will NEVER want to eat horse.
- Tudor Bosman
My feeling is, if you're going to eat meat, why restrict yourself. (I don't eat meat)
- Robert Felty
my friend went to japan and unknowingly ate raw horse meat. she described it as fresh but chewy
- Daisy
Horse must be good, all those French gourmets can't be wrong
- WarLord
Any blu-ray player recommendations? Tempted to get a slimline PS3, but it's a gift for my dad so a PS3 might appear too self-serving. :).
Shey, Jamaican of FF liked this
If I wanted a Blu-Ray player, I'd get a PS3. Seems more useful :)
- Tudor Bosman
The PS3 is probably the best value; it's a great Blu-ray player that's cheaper than its competitors. It doesn't have an infra-red port though, so universal remotes won't work with it without adapters.
- Mark Trapp
The Oppo BDP-83 is very highly regarded: http://www.oppodigital.com/blu-ray... I have one and it's very nice, although it doesn't come with downloading services like others do. It depends on whether you want very high quality blu-ray w/DVD upscaling, want streaming services, or want a game machine. I get all the download services from other places and have Wii & Xbox 360 for gaming. It comes with an option for RS-232 control, if that might ever be interesting for you.
- Cristo
I heard great things about Oppo in my limited research. I read somewhere that they are coming out with a cheaper version more in line with the cost of other players on the market (<$200)
- Benjamin Golub
Not a good day... passenger side window of car smashed, messenger bag with laptop stolen.
topo and Mike Chelen liked this
harsh :(
- bob
:(
- imabonehead
not nice
- Rutger Blom
That is horrible!! *hugs*
- Rachel Lea Fox
oh no, dan, sorry to hear that. the same thing happened last week to a girl at my dance studio - and her rent money was in the bag that was stolen. she's been looking for a part-time job to earn this month's rent back, but in the meantime ppl at the studio took up a secret santa collection for her. i think sometimes ppl do shitty things (like steal, argh) so that others can rise up and show how much they care about fighting the shitty. but it still sucks to get your stuff stolen. sorry.
- Felicia Yue
dam that sucks............
- VAL D. Zone
Sorry to hear that Dan. Is it insured?
- Michael R. Bernstein
:(. Where did it happen?
- Paul Buchheit
:(
- Private Sanjeev
:( Did you have a recovery plan/insurance of some sort?
- Itachi
Ouch. :( Where did it happen?
- Tudor Bosman
:(
- AJ Batac
:(
- Mona Nomura
Unlike!
- April Buchheit
from iPhone
Dislike! :-(
- Emily Miller
Sorry to hear that. :(
- Anne Bouey
Blah
- Rodfather
:(
- Michelle Martinez
Yeah I’ll get right on that. « Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats – I Can Has Cheezburger? - http://icanhascheezburger.com/2009...
Felicia Yue, Grant Bierman, April Buchheit and 2 other people liked this
My feeling about 10am meetings :)
- Tudor Bosman
What is DRM doing in my garage? - http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...
"I never expected to stumble upon a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) story while standing beneath an unshielded light bulb in my garage, but that was before I picked up the manual for my garage door opener."
- Tudor Bosman
from Bookmarklet
"If this Security+ garage door opener is operated with a non-rolling code transmitter, the technical measure in the receiver of the garage door opener, which provides security against code-theft devices, will be circumvented," said the manual. "The owner of the copyright in the garage door opener does not authorize the purchaser or supplier of the non-rolling code transmitter to circumvent that technical measure."
- Tudor Bosman
Once again, DO. NOT. WANT.
Kol Tregaskes, anjelina, Will Higgins™ and 12 other people liked this
Australians are probably laughing at my fear of "tiny" spiders.
- Tudor Bosman
I'm with you Tudor. But is that one outside? I'm good with them outside, just not inside.
- Rachel Lea Fox
where is that?
- VAL D. Zone
Right outside our door (Mountain View, CA). I left it alone.
- Tudor Bosman
Previously (this was inside): http://friendfeed.com/tudor...
- Tudor Bosman
it's an orb weaver. harmless.. actually good for the yard as they eat mosquitoes and such.
- Jenna Bilotta
hide. Hide. HIDE!!!! I fear spiders like Madoff fears his cell mate.
- Morgan Haley
KILL WITH FIRE!
- Rasmus Lauridsen
outside I leave them alone, but beside the door I kind of shimmy as far from all of those legs as possible to get inside!
- Rachel Lea Fox
Unless it's doing it's job, preferably somewhere far from me, it get's a three count before it does, a horrible, squishy death. eeeeekkk!!!
- Bette Cooper
Orb Weavers are beautiful spiders. We have them all over around our house. Here's a Golden Orb Weaver we had last summer: http://picasaweb.google.com/jhuebel...
- Jason Huebel
NOPE.
- Derrick
+100 Jenna. Love the fact she knows it's an orb weaver. Is there anything Jenna can't do?
- Louis Gray
The PNW is positively replete with orb weavers in the late summer and fall. They eat many metric shit-loads of mosquitoes and flies.
- Christopher A Carr
Yes, I think of Portland as Spider City. I don't mind spiders because they do eat all of those boatloads of pesky insects, but I don't like it when they surprise me.
- Eph Zero
There's a spider there? Ohh ! Pff, micro.
- Mo Kargas
Do not fear it. Actually embrace it. You'll become the next Spiderman. :P
- imabonehead
HOLY GROSSNESS.
- Mona Nomura
Oh hi little guy. What's his name?
- Will Higgins™
The "eek, nuke it from space" meme has grown tiresome.
- Christopher A Carr
We have one that builds a web across our driveway every night. I'm scared of it but we've left it alone, it's not doing any harm there. If it built a web across our porch? Different story.
- Mellissa Claus
Spiders don't bother me. Little known fact: It's virtually impossible for a spider bite to kill you. Many are poisonous, but spiders simply don't produce enough poison to actually kill a healthy full grown person. However, they can cause severe damage at the bite scene, including necrosis and such, but this is often treatable (and/or highly painful).
- Otto
Knowing the facts doesn't make me any less scared. Phobia = unreasonable/irrational fear. Eg, I am scared of the huntsman, which is virtually harmless; but not red-backs, which are venemous.
- Mellissa Claus
I must confess to once allowing an orb weaver to stay in a corner of my house. I even fed it -- interested to see if I could get it to live through the winter.
- Christopher A Carr
That looks *just* like a golden skulltula from Legend of Zelda!
- Mitch
There's something wrong with redheads? | Reuters - http://www.reuters.com/article...
"An ad for a TV dating show has been banned for suggesting that redheads are unattractive, Britain's advertising watchdog said on Wednesday."
- Jessie
from Bookmarklet
Wait, what? They *ban* an advertisement for suggesting that redheads are unattractive? Way to go, freedom of speech.
- Tudor Bosman
Absurd. Gimme Ginger!!
- T. Brent, technopeasant
They might be a little worried after that "Kick A Ginger" day crap resulted in redheads actually getting beat up. And they don't have a Bill of Rights in the UK.
- Spidra Webster
Huge Signature Gathering Success Sends Pot Legalization to Ballot - http://www.alternet.org/blogs...
Robert Higgins, April Buchheit, vovasty and 12 other people liked this
"This win means that Californians will be the first in the nation to decide whether they believe marijuana ought be taxed and regulated for all adults over 21, much the same way alcohol is. ... Support for marijuana legalization is at an all-time high, with polls ranging from 44 to 52 percent national support. In California, where marijuana has been legalized for medical use since 1996, 56 percent support legalization."
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
"an all-time high" pun intended?
- Gabe
Hah.
- Tudor Bosman
Oh man, I'll finally be able to use my wizard bong on the bus.
- Noah Belson
7 Reasons The 21st Century Is Making You Miserable http://www.cracked.com/article...
Irrational homeophobe, elnaz, rowlikeagirl and 27 other people liked this
"A photo turns up of you nakedly doing something that would shame you and your family for generations. Bestiality, perhaps. How many people in your life you would trust with that photo? If you're like the rest of us, you probably have at most two. Even more depressing, studies show that about one out of four people have no one they can confide in. The average number of close friends we say we have is dropping fast, down dramatically in just the last 20 years. Why?" (According to them: Segmented society.)
- ⓞnor
Among mounds of silly, crass humor, cracked.com strikes a chord every once in a while.
- Tudor Bosman
"You don't wait for a girl to verbally tell you she likes you. It's the sparkle in her eyes, her posture, the way she grabs your head and shoves your face into her boobs. That's the crux of the problem. That human ability to absorb the moods of others through that kind of subconscious osmosis is crucial. Kids born without it are considered mentally handicapped. People who have lots of...
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- Paul Buchheit
from iPhone
Very good!
- Paul Buchheit
from iPhone
I was wondering why I was miserable! Thanks, Paul, for pointing out to me the crux of the problem. :-)
- Daniel Dulitz
wonderful
- Manila Envelope
hilarious -- loved the bar charts. must remember to start tracking and histogramming the insults that come my way...
- daisy
If Bay Area public transit were better, I would see more of my friends from outside the East Bay than I currently do.
- Ruchira S. Datta
I love that we're sharing this online. I feel closer to all the people who Liked this!
- Seth
Thanks RSD- too bad the key comes at the end:You want to break out of that black tar pit of self-hatred? Brush the black hair out of your eyes, step away from the computer and buy a nice gift for someone you loathe. Send a card to your worst enemy. Make dinner for your mom and dad. Or just do something simple, with an tangible result. Go clean the leaves out of the gutter. Grow a damn plant.
- Mark A Jensen
I took 3rd place at Poker tonight!!! I beat 10 to take 3rd!! Yay Poker me!!
Caroline, Brian Johns and Mona Nomura liked this
Grats! was that in the first or second game?
- Tudor Bosman
Second game Tudor. I couldn't get decent cards to save my life in the first game. At least that is what it seemed like.
- Rachel Lea Fox
What Heritability Is Not http://www.gnxp.com/blog...
But regarding the closing statement about heritability of IQ, check this out: "$13 Christmas Gift = $13 point gain in children's IQ" http://www.gnxp.com/blog... Heritability depends on which environmental variations have been tried.
- Ruchira S. Datta
"Heritability is not a statistic for individuals. If you are using your knowledge of heritability to understand a single individual you are a biographer, not a scientist." Arguably, not yet -- 23andMe and other similar companies are betting that there is enough data out there to be able to derive significance for individuals.
- Tudor Bosman
Tudor, I think what they (and indeed I) would like to be able to derive is the genetic component of traits and predispositions. That is what the word "heritability" evokes, but not what it actually means--it has a technical, statistical definition that only applies to populations.
- Ruchira S. Datta
One of my PCs has a virus that is so bad... (HOW BAD IS IT?) ...It's so bad that it won't even let me boot into safe mode to do scanning and maintenance. Anyone have a super-magnet I can borrow for a few seconds?
April Buchheit, Micah Wittman, Jeremy and 6 other people liked this
:( I'm often resorted to just restoring from base if it's Windows in this case. By chance, is this virus called Security Tool or something like it, with a light-blue shield for an icon?
- Itachi
Shoulda used Linux. *runs and hides*
- Steven Perez
boot disk?
- Joe Silence is not Santa
What were the symptoms, Josh. Can you be sure it's not a physical disk semi-failure?
- Micah Wittman
zing
- Jeremy (cropmarks)
oh, wait, most ppl don't have diskette drives anymore. except for me, that is. *smug look*
- Joe Silence is not Santa
Actually, that's not a bad idea. Get a Live CD from Ubuntu and use it to back up any data you can't do without. Then wipe the HD clean and start over.
- Steven Perez
some viruses disable optical drives.
- Joe Silence is not Santa
You can also use Puppy Linux or Damn Small Linux on a USB stick.
- Steven Perez
assuming USB is still functional!
- Joe Silence is not Santa
Micah, that's not entirely impossible, so I won't rule it out, but this is a nasty worm or set of worms, the names of which I did not write down while I had functionality. It's OK, though, I was looking for an excuse to redo this PC. It has been too long.
- Josh Haley
I have another HD lying around I can use as the new C drive and will just pop the old C into my Vantec enclosure to get what I need off of it after installing the new system.
- Josh Haley
btw, a great new lite version of Linux that has a *newer* Kernel than DSL + is actually liter than it that you might want to check out is Slitaz <http://www.slitaz.org/en/>
- Itachi
I second the idea of booting from a Linux Live CD (or USB stick, whatever). I did that to recover data from Jeanette's hard drive when it failed -- mounted the drive as NTFS, copied everything that could be copied (thankfully, nothing important was lost), then wipe the drive (dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/hda), get a new drive and reinstall Windows.
- Tudor Bosman
Word of warning: please do not run that "dd" command unless you're absolutely sure that you never want data from that drive ever again :)
- Tudor Bosman
There's actually a dedicated distro for recovery: Trinity Linux http://trinityhome.org/Home...
- Itachi
You linux guys are persistent. It actually *would* be a bit better for me to be able to transfer off and reinstall without having to pop open the case, so I think i will try the Trinity bootable. Thanks.
- Josh Haley
Opensource aims to please.
- Itachi
Is there a gui built into the trinity bootable? Not going to be able to take care of everything at the prompt. It's OK, you can laugh.
- Josh Haley
Josh, yep: http://trinityhome.org/Home... also, I'd take a look at the documentation first too: http://trinityhome.org/Home... Navigation on the left-side panel
- Itachi
Josh - do you need me to send you the external drive that you sent me a while back? I can include my large pipe wrench too, which will come in handy, should the fix attempts not work.
- Morgan Haley
Morg, you were supposed to send that back like a year ago. It was supposed to get shipped back and forth. :p But nah, it's not necessary for this.
- Josh Haley
DO. NOT. WANT.
Yes, I am afraid of spiders.
- Tudor Bosman
from email
Yeah, that one would have to die.
- Jason Huebel
A C K. Kill it with fire.
- Jeremy (cropmarks)
*cries*
- Derrick
ok. THAT is not an orb weaver like your other one. suck it up with the vacuum. :)
- Jenna Bilotta
:(
- Tyson Key
I like arthropods.
- Christopher A Carr
Pro-health-insurance-reform ads should be more personal. Something like: "My dad has heart disease. And he has no health insurance; he was in an out of hospitals for 6 months because of complications, he lost his job, and now he can't get insurance coverage. And even if he could -- his heart disease would be a pre-existing condition."
April Buchheit, Michael R. Bernstein, Mark Trapp and Ruchira S. Datta liked this
"If he had a heart attack -- and I pray that he never does -- and survived -- and I pray that he does --, he'd have to declare bankruptcy to be able to pay the hospital bill."
- Tudor Bosman
I just tweeted about this: forget having some recognizable ailment, it's hard enough to get insurance if you're a healthy person. My parents got denied health insurance just recently; my dad for having blood pressure on the high end of normal, and my mom because she hasn't been to a doctor (because she's healthy) in years. I got denied last month. I think it's easier to get a mortgage...
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- Mark Trapp
Use the Soup Nazi in pro-health reform ads. Pre-existing condition? No soup for you! :-)
VAL D. Zone, kartik vaithyanathan, Bruce Lewis and 3 other people liked this
That would be awesome.
- Tudor Bosman
Is there really "evil" in this world and can we isolate "evil" to a specific set of people? Does that justify our war in Afghanisthan?
Michael R. Bernstein, Steven Perez, Itachi and Bruce Lewis liked this
I think there are few people who mean to be "evil" (in the evil villain, D&D sense of the word). People do commit acts that we would consider "evil" -- sometimes as unintended consequences of their actions, sometimes because they have to make (real or imaginary) trade-offs and the choice is better (to them) than the alternatives, and sometimes because they're not mindful of all consequences.
- Tudor Bosman
Romans 3:23
- τorƍue
And, you know, one man's terrorist is another's freedom fighter.
- Tudor Bosman
Everyone has done what is bad. But it is intent and motivation that divides wickedness from weakness. All of us would love to believe that everything wrong we do is a mere matter of weakness. ("I didn't mean it") but that is the problem with relativism. Our conscience may be so seared by repetition and excuse, that it no longer works correctly. That is why being accountable to a...
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- Melanie Reed
Thinking of Bonaparte's famous quote that "his conscience did not trouble him" is one example of how a conscience can be "seared" and unreliable.
- Melanie Reed
If I were Google, I would most definitely buy Twitter....
Kol Tregaskes, rowlikeagirl, Melanie Reed and 3 other people liked this
Why?
- CW™
I wouldn't.
- Johnny Worthington
because google has no social play and the only real-time/social/publishing network that they can afford right now is Twitter.... FB's valuation is prob. too high for Google
- Bindu Reddy
How much would you pay for it?
- Tudor Bosman
Why would they buy Twitter instead of buying something smaller and just add it to their services?
- CW™
I would start negotiating very low but I would actually be willing to pay a lot... Remember I have very very deep pockets :))
- Bindu Reddy
2 reasons. 1) Myspace cost billions... Yahoo paid 3.6 billion for Geocities. 2) Google doesn't need a 'social play', they make coin selling ads from mining the data from 100s of 'social plays'. You own it, you have to fix it
- Johnny Worthington
CW - Twitter has mindshare and a good user base. A smaller service is not worth Google's time....
- Bindu Reddy
Bindu, why not just make a app to use WAVE functions but in a twitter like way?
- CW™
Twitter is the pager of the '00s. Anyone still have a pager?
- Johnny Worthington
CW - cause to-date Google has not succeeded in building their own social app....Much easier to buy Twitter and let the Twitter team run the app... Kinda of like YouTube..
- Bindu Reddy
Since the CPM for Twitter has to be quite low and they can buy access to the fire hose, do they really need to buy Twitter?
- Todd Hoff
Google already tried buying something smaller. It was called Jaiku. Next time around they'll just buy Twitter.
- Ken Sheppardson
Todd, Yes, because they get into a whole new area of "push"... People discover things by searching for them or having stuff pushed to them... Twitter is best at discovery based on push. Believe me the ad-model will come :)
- Bindu Reddy
Doubt they will buy twitter.
- CW™
They don't NEED to buy Twitter
- Johnny Worthington
1 Twitter is at its peak of usage. 2. Google is already looking for the next social.. not the current one.
- CW™
Then they can put the proper Beta tag on it. I think you're onto something, Bindu ;)
- Micah Wittman
CW - I think it's more like - Twitter may not be willing to sell....
- Bindu Reddy
I remember a time not so long ago when Google was going to buy Digg... cause it was the hot thing...
- Johnny Worthington
Yeah and digg is now similar to Usenet.
- CW™
Twiiter has more mindshare than Digg ever did
- Bindu Reddy
Mindshare is nice... returning customers willing to 'pay' for a service is a whole other thing...
- Johnny Worthington
So here's the thing... if they already get the tweets [i.e. firehose] now, they're indexing them and can serve ads into the search results, and most tweets are generated from some client other than the twitter.com web site... the twitter site's really just another client for sticking messages onto the bus. What do they *really* get by buying the service?
- Ken Sheppardson
No one is going to pay for twitter. To use or to own.
- CW™
Ken, exactly. The real juice is in cross service clients like Brizzly and Seesmic. Google would sooner buy a client and super size it then purchase one information stream.
- Johnny Worthington
Imagine getting all your social media messages in a side bar or gmail like interface.
- Johnny Worthington
It's always a bar with you Johny :-)
- Todd Hoff
I'm having all my social media messaging routed through eFax and having it send it all to my office fax machine.
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
Always. Frankly Bindu, until I found Brizzly, Twitter meant little to me. I actually spend more time on the Facebook tab. I don't care where it comes from, I only care what it is.
- Johnny Worthington
sıɹɥɔ, classic thermo paper, ami right.
- Micah Wittman
dot matrix
- Johnny Worthington
I don't think Google should buy twitter. There's nothing that twitter is doing that Google Reader can't do. I would rather put the money into giving Reader more than the 3 engineers (if they have that many --- I don't really know) that they already have. Google's problem is that it seems chronically unable to devote engineers to these projects.
- Piaw Na
Nooooo.... Look what they did to Jaiku! ;)
- Space Cowboy
I would rather have them give free wimax/wifi internet service than buying Twitter. Internet >> Twitter.
- ashish
woke up this morning to head going BOOM BOOM BOOM! Now down to a kind of tap tap tap... keep fading head knocker, please keep fading!!
AJ Batac liked this
Was it to the beat of MSTRKRFT, leftover from Friday night? :)
- Tudor Bosman
Yeah, you are having poker folks over later!! You have to feel better!!
- Georgia Diehl
Dr Johnny's Diagnosis... You may have been awoken by a Black Eyed Peas' song...
- Johnny Worthington
Also, if you guys need an extra hand for poker, let me know :)
- Tudor Bosman
Tudor, it might have been, I think my ear drums are still vibrating from them. (and I'll keep you posted), Georgia, we will be all good for tonight! Johnny, my alarm was set to wake me with 80's music so I don't think Black Eyed Peas slipped in there, but then again, who knows.
- Rachel Lea Fox
I really dislike the American way of quoting prices without tax. When I have to pay for something, I mostly care about how much money I have to pay overall, and not where the money goes.
Anton Bosman, Sebastian, John μller and 31 other people liked this
While this is not too bad when all you have to deal with is a 7-9% sales tax, it's annoying in the case of airline tickets, where "taxes and fees" may be up to 50% of the overall price.
- Tudor Bosman
That's not American, that's the airlines
- Johnny Worthington
They've been trying to pass a law in Canada to force airlines to advertise their fares "all-in" but the airline lobbyists are winning so far.
- Kenton
yeah the sales tax can annoy me to no end... mostly because I'm a total scrooge. Also when they add euro VAT to stuff just before checkout on Amazon, I always have to think about why the price is suddenly 25% higher (Danish VAT is 25% normally included the advertised price)
- Rasmus Lauridsen
Forcing them to add tax in will just make things cost more. Because lets say something costs $299, or $320 with tax. If they're forced to advertise total price, then guess what will happen? Retailers *love* their -9 pricing schemes. They'll raise the price to make the total have that 9 at the end again. They certainly won't *lower* the price to do that...
- Otto
Otto: the same argument applies for any change in the pricing structure. Suppose the situation were reversed: suppose prices included the tax, and retailers were considering removing the tax from advertised prices; they'd rise the price such that the new advertised price ended with a 9...
- Tudor Bosman
from Android
Tudor: I agree with your logic. Both cases are true. Which means that I'm for the status quo, I suppose. :)
- Otto
Completely agree Tudor. That was the biggest shocks when we moved to the US. Back in Turkey, everything is tax included and you know how much you are going to spend: no surprises.
- Eren Emre Kanal
<side-rant>Checked on price for round trip flight from a Calgary, Canada to LAX. IT WAS DOUBLE THE PRICE compared to LAX to Calgary. Same exact flight time, other parameters except reverse starting point that is.</side-rant>
- Micah Wittman
There's a political reason why some would want it separate: it makes it more visceral what the government's take is. You feel the sales tax as an increase on what you wanted to pay.
- Ray Cromwell
Not including the tax encourages consumption. We need the economic stimulus :).
- Gary Burd
Otto: also, people understand very, very well how to compare prices -- "lower is better". This is why a merchant deciding to include the tax in the advertised price unilaterally would lose in the marketplace; people would see their prices as higher, and would be dissuaded from shopping there, even before thinking about the fact that taxes are included. This is also why, I think, prices...
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- Tudor Bosman
Micah, an article in the Calgary Herald on Saturday had someone compare prices from Toronto to Vancouver (about $1,000.00) v.s. Buffalo to Seattle and then shuttle to Vancouver (about $500.00). The taxes are killers.
- Kenton
I don't want it to be different than how I expect it
- Mistletoe Glen
There is a big problem that can occur for the companies with this adding the tax into the price and displaying the total on the tags & advertising instead of the base price. Think about a large chain of stores with locations all over the US, where the tags and advertising are made in bulk and then distributed to stores all over the country. Or the stuff is pre-tagged at a central...
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- April Russo (app103)
That's why you abolish state taxes with a single GST
- Bryce Roney
from iPhone
Then what do you do about areas like in depressed parts of NJ where they have a 50% reduction in the taxes to encourage businesses to open shop and create jobs there, and people to go and shop there?
- April Russo (app103)
Japan made it a law that retailer must make it crystal clear if it is with or without. Lots of parentheses after prices now. In japan it's five pct consumption tax everywhere but airlines still play games!
- Rick Cogley
from iPhone
Taxes that are not separated are taxes that are not noticed (and thus, easier to raise). Take a look at gasoline taxes in the US, the amount of which few at the pump could identify if they had to. Keeping them out of the price helps to keep them lower overall.
- Andrew Leyden
If you abolished state and local sales taxes and replaced it with a single GST, wouldn't that mean that in some states that didn't have a sales tax, that consumers would be suddenly paying more? And what gets taxed? Some states would lose money if you remove the tax from some items, while other states consumers would end up paying more because items that were previously exempt from sales tax, now are taxed.
- April Russo (app103)
We need an augmented reality app that can just tell you as you have the camera on the price what the real price is :-) Yes lazy don't want to do my own calculations solution, but sales tax is always stupid % like 7% or 8%
- Rasmus Lauridsen
I liked it better when NJ had a 5% tax. Paid less and it was easy to figure out in your head. Now it's 7% and 3.5% in Urban Enterprise Zones.
- April Russo (app103)
April: that's a fair point; what I'm suggesting would make life harder for retailers, while making it easier for consumers. It's a worthy trade-off, in my opinion. Also, stores that operate in multiple locations already have knowledge about the local tax rules; after all, they need to calculate and remit the taxes to the appropriate authorities; that information now has to end up on labels.
- Tudor Bosman
Although big box stores would probably not be affected. The few big stores I shop at (Safeway, Walgreens, Fry's, Costco, Best Buy) don't have labels on items, but only on the shelves (except for bulk groceries and meats, which are presumably cut, weighed, and labeled in the local store anyway). And they already print different labels for different stores, because of time-limited, regional promotions.
- Tudor Bosman
Rasmus, here the sales tax is 8.25%. To compute this, divide the price by twelve, then subtract 1% of the result.
- Ruchira S. Datta
One part of the reason why they're separate is to prevent double-taxation: the revenue before tax is considered earned income, and is taxed as such, leaving the sales tax collected separate and untaxed. If they're rolled into one price, it's harder to determine if the sales tax was charged, or if the price was simply higher. Additionally, since sales tax is a levy on the consumer, not...
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- Mark Trapp
Taxes and fees are a little over $30 on my cable/internet bill, almost $60 for my water/trash/electricity. It's so depressing to open my bill to see the total, then getting to the bottom of the page or the next page to see all the little extra fees.
- Admiral Anika
Mark: they can be separate on the receipt, and bundled together on the tag. Or display both: (in small font) $35 + $2.89 tax = (big font) $37.89.
- Tudor Bosman
Tudor, the obligation is on the consumer, not the retailer, to pay the levy to the government. One other thing I'm thinking about is there is a subset of the population that's tax exempt or partially tax exempt, and would not pay the big, stated price. So then is it a discount, or was the price incorrectly stated? Is the retailer trying to tax an individual who is exempt? Leaving it up...
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- Mark Trapp
Mark: How is the tax-exempt population dealt with today? Do I go into Walgreens and show some form of ID at the checkout counter, and I don't get charged sales tax? I don't think I've ever seen this happen.
- Tudor Bosman
I know some *items* are tax-exempt (food, and possibly others, depending on locality), but that's not a problem; the store already knows which ones they are, as they levy the tax appropriately.
- Tudor Bosman
Tudor: yeah. You have documentation either on file with the store (or you bring the documentation to the register) that states you're exempt, and you wind up not paying it. NPOs, certain income levels in certain jurisdictions, and public workers in some special cases are all tax-exampt. Having worked with sales tax over the years, it's a hard concept to convey when it all goes into the...
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- Mark Trapp
Sales Tax exemption depends on various local and state laws. Stores deal with it automatically for cases where certain types of items are exempt (like food items in Kentucky are tax-free). Other cases are where items are purchased for resale, in which you generally have to set up an account with the stores in question and file documentation with them of your tax-exempt status. And that...
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- Otto
Thinking about this a little more, I guess the point I'm making is that the government only intercedes after the act of sale: that is, the retailer isn't in business with the government. The setup that exists now is that the retailer controls their business up until the point of sale, where their hand is forced to collect taxes for the government. When you change the advertised price to...
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- Mark Trapp
Mark: I can see your point, although I don't empathize with it :) Maybe it's because I lived outside of the US until 1997, and the system I describe is in use throughout Europe; it was baffling to me to not know exactly how much I have to pay until the register. Two prices on the tag would, I think, satisfy most folks: if you're tax-exempt, you pay the first one, and the second one (including tax) is in a bigger font, simply because that's what most consumers will pay.
- Tudor Bosman
I have seen the future, and it is good.
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Tease.
- Louis Gray
Pics or it didn't happen
- Jesse Stay
:P
- Jenna Bilotta
Should I regret buying my Droid?
- Tudor Bosman
I guess I didn't win the lottery...or maybe I did>>>>??? :)
- VAL D. Zone
all i will say is... zomg.
- Jenna Bilotta
Transit Tip: TransLink « Car-Free Outdoors - http://carfreeoutdoors.wordpress.com/2009...
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"Like some other U.S. metro areas, the San Francisco Bay Area has several transportation systems serving different parts of the region. It doesn’t take long to get used to the specifics of a transit system that you will be using regularly for trips to work, school, or other frequently visited destinations. But traveling somewhere new on the weekend may put you on a bus or train that is unfamiliar to you. Planning for the trip takes some time with a system you do not use on a regular basis. While I look forward to many aspects of the planning process, I find it inconvenient to navigate multiple payment systems. Every transit agency has different fares, payment methods, and rules about whether or not you need a ticket before you board. Although it currently is far from including all of the transit agencies in the Bay Area, the TransLink card helps a great deal with fare logistics. TransLink is a payment system that can be used (as of Fall 2009) on AC Transit, BART, Caltrain, Dumbarton...
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- Spidra Webster
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So you're saying that the TransLink gates on MUNI, and the TransLink terminals on Caltrain, no longer display "Out of service" all the time? I'm impressed :)
- Tudor Bosman
It's not my blog. But I'll consider myself forewarned. I no longer own a car. I don't mind BART or the ferry but I'm not wild about the buses. So I try to walk or bike most places. I can't wait until the (probably far off) day when I can bike up substantial hills. Then I will be able to range farther than I can today. But there's no doubt that I go fewer places since selling my car....
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- Spidra Webster
James Randi Lecture @ Caltech - Homeopathy - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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I'm really amazed that we still sell homeopathic remedies at the local drugstore (e.g., Zicam is the best known)
- Mistletoe Glen
I'll remember that the next time I get exposed to commercial grade pesticides (thank you, modern day science for that wonderful "discovery" for compromising my immune system) vomiting up almost every day, hot diarrhea, wonderful boils over my skin that lasted for 3 years, broke and bled so much that I had to wear T-shirts to bed under my pajamas, lesions in my nose, an overgrowth and...
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- Melanie Reed
The placebo effect has been clinically proven under control circumstances, again and again and again. Having said that, I am all for whatever works to remedy the ailment(s).
- Kurt Starnes
Kurt, It was not placebo. This took a measurable edge off the pain. It also had to be administered at a particular time in the pain cycle or the pain simply was too overwhelming
- Melanie Reed
Melanie - I'm just happy to hear you are no longer suffering!
- Kurt Starnes
Thank you, Kurt! I am glad of the improvement as well. It stole a lot of my health and years of my life. But they were not wasted spiritually. Without God, I could not have endured something like that. The person inside gained strength even though the person outside suffered.
- Melanie Reed
Melanie, I'm sorry for your suffering, but there is and never has been one shred of evidence at any time in the past 220 years in a repeatable trial that showed any effect from homeopathic medicine beyond what is reasonably expected from a placebo. Diluting some material to a ratio of...
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- Mistletoe Glen
Thank you, Glenn. Have you used Homeopathy? Until the drug companies came in with their big business approach it and other methods from the east and native Indians were being used to treat many Chronic conditions successfully without doing harm. Now we have a singular approach many might liken to a "sledge hammer" approach that in all fairness does seem to help in traumatic and some...
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- Melanie Reed
Besides that, respected physician, Dr. Andrew Weil disagrees with this man on this point
- Melanie Reed
You sure know how to catch them, Christopher ;)
- Eivind
He has it down to an art.
- Kurt Starnes
Melanie: I'm curious; did you watch the video?
- Christopher A Carr
And that there are issues with the pharmaceutical industry has nothing whatsoever to do with homeopathy's (essentially, "magic" water's) efficacy or lack thereof in the treatment of disease.
- Christopher A Carr
By whom is Andrew Weil respected? His agent and publisher, I suppose. He advocates all manner of quackery, and isn't much better than that flimflamer and scoundrel, Deepak Chopra.
- Christopher A Carr
Placebos can have a measurable effect on pain and other symptoms. The placebo effect is well documented and quite real, though the benefits are unrelated to the particular substance administered.
- Kevin Fox
This is a pet peeve of mine, and it may be the issue at stake here. The word "homeopathy" is used to mean two different things, and the confusion might not be accidental. 1. herbal remedies, in sane concentrations, which probably can work to treat certain diseases; after all, many drugs used today (including aspirin and penicillin) are derived from the natural world. 2. substances...
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- Tudor Bosman
The two concepts are very different in the mind of a scientist, but the average Joe will see both kinds of products lumped under the same heading ("homeopathic remedies") in the grocery store or pharmacy.
- Tudor Bosman
And, aside: I like Randi, but I think we skeptics will only stand to gain when the person at the forefront of our movement is someone more charismatic and less of an asshole :)
- Tudor Bosman
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...: "Not all homeopaths advocate extremely high dilutions. Many of the early homeopaths were originally doctors and generally used lower dilutions such as "3X" or "6X", rarely going beyond "12X". The split between lower and higher dilutions followed ideological lines. Those favoring low dilutions stressed pathology and a strong link to...
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- Tudor Bosman
Tudor, yes, too many people do consider homeopathy only in your second sense and do not consider the first. And yes, I agree the confusion is not accidental.
- Melanie Reed
Tudor: Randi is a lovely fellow, and by no means an "asshole."
- Christopher A Carr
Tudor: You left off this part: "...Some products with such relatively lower dilutions continue to be sold, but like their counterparts, they have not been conclusively demonstrated to have any effect beyond the placebo effect.[71][72]"
- Christopher A Carr
And for the (what appears to be majority of) homeopathic practitioners who advocate high dilutions, what of this concern? : "Furthermore, since water will have been in contact with millions of different substances throughout its history, critics point out that water is therefore an extreme dilution of almost any conceivable substance. By drinking water one would, according to this interpretation, receive treatment for every imaginable condition.[99]" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Christopher A Carr
And who funded those studies? I am very skeptical of studies. Why? Because of who funds them, how they are often conducted and who stands to benefit from their findings. The university level is not without agenda. Here's the point on which this turns: placebo has become an overused word and it certainly has never benefited the homeopathy I have used (and was initially skeptical of in...
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- Melanie Reed
"...placebo has become an overused word and it certainly has never benefited the homeopathy I have used..." How would you know the difference?
- Christopher A Carr
"And I daresay, Christopher, were you in the same sea, neither would you." I'm not the magical thinker that you are. So, yes, I would turn down snake oil for which their was neither any evidence of efficacy, nor any plausible proposed mechanism of activity.
- Christopher A Carr
To be clear, is it your position that extreme dilution is the invalid sort of homeopathy? Water, in fact, does not have "memory?"
- Christopher A Carr
And how would you know the difference, Christopher? Is the patient better? Are they cured? Then what does it matter that they are good health again, how it was accomplished, really. That is the bottom line, isn't it? They're better health now. I have met doctors and read accounts of doctors who openly admit they don't know how their patient recovered....but they did. So does it really matter how?
- Melanie Reed
What does it matter how it was accomplished? First of all, that one ingests some substance and subsequently improves, does not necessarily mean that the substance effected an improvement. The person may have gotten better anyway. Or, the person's expectations that they would be helped by the substance could have kicked in the placebo effect. In good studies, the placebo effect is...
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- Christopher A Carr
"Hope is a Placebo" Discuss.
- Kevin Fox
Does it ever occur that what works for one may not work for another, Christopher? As much as the idea of batch delivery appeals to the economies of scale for cure, one size really doesn't fit all. For example, they used to lose more women on the table than men during heart surgery. Why? The stent was made for men and thought to be purposeful for both. So does it occur, that harsh drugs...
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- Melanie Reed
Kevin, you remind me of a favorite and proved thought: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage...
- Melanie Reed
What constitutes "harshness" in a drug? What "gentler approach" are you referring to? Water?
- Christopher A Carr
"And yet, most women were telling them something was wrong and they wouldn't listen." <-- Does that make the proposed mechanism by which homeopathy works any more plausible? If so, how?
- Christopher A Carr
Melanie: One of your arguments seems to go something like "science-based medicine isn't perfect, therefor x & y non-science-based techniques are effective." That is illogical.
- Christopher A Carr
An example of harshness in a drug: prenatal nausea drugs that cause missing limb birth defects.
- Melanie Reed
Noted.
- Christopher A Carr
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal... From the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology: "ABSTRACT - Homeopathy remains one of the most controversial subjects in therapeutics. This article is an attempt to clarify its effectiveness based on recent systematic reviews. Electronic databases were searched for systematic reviews/meta-analysis on the...
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- Christopher A Carr
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed... - "Are the clinical effects of homoeopathy placebo effects? Comparative study of placebo-controlled trials of homoeopathy and allopathy." : BACKGROUND: Homoeopathy is widely used, but specific effects of homoeopathic remedies seem implausible. Bias in the conduct and reporting of trials is a possible explanation for positive...
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- Christopher A Carr
Real Homeopathy includes using ginger root tea and Shoyu tea (macrobiotic-eastern medicine) for nausea. They are both considered very safe. That would have been a safer and gentler medicinal alternative to prenatal nausea drugs
- Melanie Reed
I can vouch for ginger & peppermint for nausea, though there is another herb vastly superior to both. (dunno if it's a good idea with pregnancy though!)
- Lo
Ginger's effects are rather weak. What do you mean by "shoyu tea?" Soy sauce in hot water? "Tea" is Camellia sinensis. It's not my understanding that the partaking of herbal or folk remedies (some of which have plausible mechanisms of activity) amounts to homeopathy.
- Christopher A Carr
Due to the absurdity in his explanation and the comedy approach in presentation, I can't help but feel there must be another side. For instance in speaking of the potency due to molecule quality, filtered water eliminates substance so the billions of years of accumulating molecules would be irrelevant. Unless I am missing something here.
- Lillie Oliver
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed... "Feeling validated versus being correct: a meta-analysis of selective exposure to information."
- Colby
I wonder if there is a strong correlation between believers in homeopathy and theism, as I see fills Melanie's feed.
- Colby
Colby, actually not. I didn't try homeopathy until western medicine didn't work. I wasn't raised on it. I resisted trying it for years. I didn't expect anything to work. I was properly conditioned not to believe in anything other than western medicine. I wasn't a good candidate for homeopathy if placebo was the basis of its success.
- Melanie Reed
Lillie: You *are* missing something. The molecules don't need to be there anymore, because water molecules "remember" having been in proximity to the solute molecules, and to other water molecules that were in proximity to the solute molecules. Yes; crazy.
- Christopher A Carr
And Melanie, eating some ginger is not homeopathy.
- Christopher A Carr
:) I'll tell my homeopathist and throw out all those books right away, Christopher. And I'll go back to waiting in pain in those doctor office's till they find what works and when I run out of money. I'll be sure to just keep up my faith that they will find help soon . lol
- Melanie Reed
Are you seeing a naturopathic practitioner who uses homeopathy on occasion?
- Christopher A Carr
Melanie: You should peruse the Wikipedia article. It's pretty thorough.
- Christopher A Carr
Melanie, Western medicine works in many cases, some diseases we obviously can treat better than others. Genetics and epigenetics make for varying individual responses for drugs, we know this. Pharmacogenomics is helping us improve this. Meanwhile, in controlled studies homeopathy always fails. A n=1 is never evidence that something works.
- Colby
Melanie: And while it might sound mean, your anecdotes are not really worth much of anything in this discussion.
- Christopher A Carr
Also, homeopathy is dangerous because it dissuades people such as yourself from seeking evidence based treatment from qualified physicians. People who practice and promote homeopathy are putting many people at risk if they don't seek appropriate treatments.
- Colby
...an important point.
- Christopher A Carr
Christopher, no offense is taken. I know what happened. I know what helped and so do many others.
- Melanie Reed
Colby and Christopher. My intent is not to replace Western medicine but to respect it for what it is and to stand firm on its limitations. What I would ask of you is to respect that you nor I have the complete answer for every case. I (yes every individual) has the right to choose their medical care. And western medicine needs to trust that I am capable of knowing what is best for me....
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- Melanie Reed
"I know what happened. I know what helped and so do many others." I'm sure you think that's true.
- Christopher A Carr
I don't think everyone has equal rights at all. People with no understanding of scientific literature should not have a choice of something of zero rationality. Again you are using poor logic that because Western medicine sometimes fails (sometimes it is simply an incompetent physician), homeopathy is something that can step in and fill the gap. But in objective trials, homeopathy always fails.
- Colby
Colby, an understanding of scientific literature does not ensure agreement with it. :) I said nothing of the kind. Homeopathy is not here to support Western medicine and neither is any other methodology outside of it. Tools work together. And they are nothing more than tools, hopefully applied well and with care.
- Melanie Reed
I still think you are talking about herbalism or something, not homeopathy.
- Christopher A Carr
I suppose preventing dehydration could improve some outcomes :p
- Colby
"Homeopathy" is not an antonym of "Western medicine." And it's not a catch-all term for every sort of non-standard medicine. "Homeopathy" is not a synonym of "alternative medicine."
- Christopher A Carr
I always assumed the "homeo-" part was a reference to the law of similars.
- Eivind
"Recently, homeopathy has come to mean pretty much anything in the way of alternative therapy, from aromatherapy and herbal remedies to pressure points and chiropractic techniques. But homeopathy itself is actually something very different. It doesn't mean that homeopathy doesn't often coincide with herbal remedies or aromatherapy, many homeopathic remedies are herbal in origin. But...
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- Eivind
FreeBSD / ZFS box is up!
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Now installing Samba and MediaTomb.
- Tudor Bosman
Yay! Now clean up the office. :)
- Jeanette Bosman
I'm doing the same thing this weekend.
- Scott Ludwig
Does it have a time-slider equivalent? The integration into nautilus is a nice touch in opensolaris.
- Eric Borisch
s/MediaTomb/Firefly/ as I wanted something that iTunes recognizes.
- Tudor Bosman
8.94T: 5 * 2TB drives (- 40GB reserved for the root fs), raidz1.
- Tudor Bosman
@Tudor What is Firefly? Got a link?
- EricaJoy
http://www.fireflymediaserver.org/ although the site seems down at the moment. Search for "Firefly media server" (formerly known as mt-daapd)
- Tudor Bosman
sweeet
- Logan Lindquist
Also, I love the FreeBSD ports collection (which Gentoo tried to imitate). cd /usr/ports/devel/git; make install will fetch git, build it, and install it, and automatically deal with any dependencies as they arrive.
- Tudor Bosman
Another option is pkg_add -r git which will install a binary package compiled with default options, and resolve dependencies.
- Scott Ludwig
from iPhone
Okay, nested dependencies work just fine until you find a package that depends on TeX. Why does my little storage box need latex and amstex and mkfontdir and dvips and...?
- Tudor Bosman
Because you need PDFs of the documentation, of course!
- Eric Borisch
In many languages, apparently. /usr/ports/print/latex-cjk/scripts/installt1enc.sh arb5sung arb5sung.ttf Bg5 Generating Type 1 subfonts arb5sung from arb5sung.ttf [Bg5 planes: 1-55]:
- Tudor Bosman
This is apparently all caused by updating the freebsd-doc-en package, which regenerates all forms of documentation from scratch.
- Tudor Bosman
One of my disks appears bad, hopefully it's the cable.ad8: FAILURE - READ_DMA48 timed out LBA=766744255
- Tudor Bosman
Yep, RMAing now.
- Tudor Bosman
Two more disks are showing read errors, including the boot disk. This is not good at all. Maybe WD actually qualifies RAID-level drives, and rebrands the crappy ones (with bad sectors which auto-remap) as consumer-level. With auto-remapping turned off, errors start creeping in within days.
- Tudor Bosman
I'll investigate this more, of course, by mounting the bad disks into a different machine and looking at SMART output, but so far it smells of a bad batch of drives.
- Tudor Bosman
How hot are they getting? (It's in the SMART data) ... We had a fan go out on a drive tower (and the 'dead fan' alarm didn't sound -- wonderful) and we smoked at least three drives before figuring out what was going on.
- Eric Borisch
Eric: While trying to stress the disks with a few dd commands running in parallel, I can't get them to heat up above 26 degrees Celsius. I'd say that cooling inside my box works well. The two newly failed disks have 5 UNCorrectable sectors each -- and that's just because the SMART buffer only remembers the last 5 errors.
- Tudor Bosman
Maybe I just got a bad batch, but at this point I would recommend against using WD20EADS drives for anything.
- Tudor Bosman
yeah, the EADS aren't so good. The ABYS series have been super reliable in comparison, but I don't think they go up to that many TB.
- Private Sanjeev
incidentally the drives are physically different (the mechanicals are more vibration-resistant on enterprise drives), so WD doesn't just rebrand flaky drives.
- Private Sanjeev
Any opinions on the new, 4-platter WD RE4 RAID edition drives? They're 2TB, expensive as hell, but there may be deals to be had. Alternatively, the Seagate Barracuda XT 2TB.
- Tudor Bosman
I have a bunch of EADS drives (4x1TB, 4x1.5TB) and I haven't seen any problems. Might just be a bad batch.
- Joe Beda ()
Currently leading the pack: Hitachi 7K2000.
- Tudor Bosman
I only have experience with ABYS and EADS in production :(.
- Private Sanjeev
I have 24 A7K1000s that have been going great for over a year. (Knocks on wood)
- Eric Borisch
Okay, I ordered 5 7K2000s. Let's see how this goes.
- Tudor Bosman
The box is back up with the 5 Hitachi 7K2000 drives. I copied all the data over again, and "zpool scrub" now completes without errors. I'll update this post after 2 or 3 days of burn-in.
- Tudor Bosman
Hint: Read the man page. The "--batch" option to portupgrade is supremely useful. portupgrade -vaP --batch: upgrade all installed FreeBSD packages, prefer to use precompiled packages if available (-P), don't ask questions (use default configuration options).
- Tudor Bosman
A few scrubs later, still zero errors, and normal smartctl output. I now deem the box ready for production use (that is, the main storage device in the Bosman household).
- Tudor Bosman
Does anybody sell a BSD/ZFS raid box that is all ready to go?
- Peng-Toh
For small boxes, you could consider a self-contained box like a MSI Wind PC ($139).
- Scott Ludwig
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I mean something that comes with all software (BSD/ZFS) installed, an UI and no "hacking" required. Something for a non-techie.
- Peng-Toh
my EADS results: 2/6 failed so far (free RMA replacement). no data loss though.
- Michael Herf
Tudor: FWIW, random activity is much more stressful (and power consuming = heat producing) than the contiguous reads/writes you get from dd. Try bonnie++ or iozone if you'd like to really hit the system. Glad to hear you're up and running - ZFS is fantastic stuff.
- Eric Borisch
Michael: Yes, I had 3 out of 5 EADS drives fail within a week. I returned all 5 and got Hitachi 7K2000.
- Tudor Bosman
I'm looking for reliable, cheap remote storage (to back up my home storage device). S3 is $0.15/GB/month, which is reasonable, but I'm hoping for something cheaper (for storing roughly 100GB - 2TB of data). Any format works -- ftp, ssh access, simple block storage -- I can write code :)
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Diomede Storage (http://www.diomedestorage.com/) has near-line storage (up to 5 minutes to first byte) for $0.08/GB, and offline storage (up to 4 hours to first byte) for $0.03/GB, which may be good enough for backup purposes.
- Tudor Bosman
I use Jungle Disk with Rackspace (they also offer Amazon storage) -- the price is the same but I think Amazon has bandwidth charges as well. The extra $2 per month is worth it for the ease of use.
- Brian Sullivan
I also use JungleDisk and love it.
- Beau Liening
i wish dropbox.com had bigger plans.
- Eren Emre Kanal
+1 on bigger dropbox.com plans. I have a 50GB plan now (probably moving to the 100GB plan soon) but what do I do when I get above 100GB?
- Jason Huebel
Google is running a deal on cheap storage.
- Jeremy (cropmarks)
Sorry about the downtime, the bug should be fixed in a couple of minutes.
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And, we're back.
- Tudor Bosman
I see what you did there.
- Itachi
http://friendfeed.com/static... -- this file is probably broken. Please, friendfeed team, look into it.
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Fixed, fix being pushed right now, we should be fully up within 2 minutes.
- Tudor Bosman
Weird. Between the clip of me from Lie to Me http://ausiellofiles.ew.com/2009... and working on Dollhouse today, I'm having a Fox-filled Thursday.
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Don't you love how she casually slipped the Dollhouse ref in? :)
- WorldofHiglet
What what, working on Dollhouse? :)
- Tudor Bosman
arching the back is a clue to the animal being in its death throws was that a turn on ow look i got triplcat and ive only been back 12 hours
- Gratten
I am so curious about the Dollhouse gig, of which I know I'll not be answered ;) Series finale? Same character? Same time-line? flashbacks? flashforwards? I guess we'll just have to wait. Happy FOX Thursday.
- David Monroe
"'See you later' is just an expression. People say this even if they never plan to see you again." -- Cultural etiquette for foreign diplomats living in the US - http://www.reddit.com/r...
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Ever walked into a hospital room where it is apparent the occupant is not doing well and the first words to leave your mouth include "How're you doing?".
- SuezanneC Baskerville
In Japan, if they'll never see you again, they would say "sayonara."
- Christopher A Carr
Or the mortician at my great uncle's funeral, who saw us off with a cheery, "See you again soon!"
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
from iPhone
In the mid south east US there are two: In a little bit, which means in a week or so, and, After a while, which is a longer period of time. Bless their hearts...
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
from fftogo
Smell you later!
- Mistletoe Glen
We live... underneath the radar
- Johnny Worthington
around here "bless your heart" means "fuck off and die, you idiot".
- Joe Silence is not Santa
Along the same lines: http://everything2.com/title...
- Tudor Bosman
"Talk to you later!"
- imabonehead
Now I want to see a guide to US culture written for Canadians. ... and vice-versa.
- Andrew C
i'm italian and we have a similar expression in italian, but we use "later" to define in a few minutes or hours. not as americans that mean in some point in the future from now to the apocalipse.
- Fabrizio
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