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Convoy escorts - SPOILER for SNIPPET 8 of HFQ

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Re: Convoy escorts - SPOILER for SNIPPET 8 of HFQ
Post by dreamrider   » Tue Nov 18, 2014 1:20 am

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runsforcelery wrote:
Highjohn wrote:Question for those of a historical bent. What were the three world wars. WWI and WWII are obvious but I've never know what the other one was though I've heard mention of it before. The closest I can come is either the Franco-Prussian war, but that only involved Germany(pre-Germany) and France, or the cold war, but that doesn't seem right as a full scale conflict never erupted.


That's because WW III's never been fought . . . yet, at least. It's the one everyone was expecting in the 50s, dreading in the 60s, more or less resigned to in the 70s, too busy to worry about in the 80s, figured was a relic of the past in the 90s, and shifted to jihad around 2001.

It would have been accurate to define the French and Indian War (US designation) as a world war, as well, but then we couldn't have called the 1914-1918 unpleasantness World War One, I'm afraid. ;)

That help? :lol:


I've seen the Seven Years War called (ad hoc) "World War 0" a couple of times. :)

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Re: Convoy escorts - SPOILER for SNIPPET 8 of HFQ
Post by Hildum   » Wed Nov 19, 2014 2:10 pm

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This may be a bit late to the party, but the book "Japan 1941" by Eri Hotta may be of interest to the readers of this thread. It basically covers the political and cultural situation in Japan that lead to the attack on Pearl Harbor despite literally everyone being aware that it would be a bad thing to do.
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Re: Convoy escorts - SPOILER for SNIPPET 8 of HFQ
Post by BobG   » Sun Nov 30, 2014 10:31 pm

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runsforcelery wrote:In the meantime, I'm taking the opportunity for a major hardware update (since I didn't have a whole heck of a lot of choice :roll:) and I'll be going to a pair of completely separate towers, plus mirrored drives in each, and a new, heavy-duty laptop with bunches more memory, RAM, and speed. "Take that, you silly cyber k-night!" :P

Hopefully by mirroring you mean Raid 1, I.e. a complete duplicate of the disk at all times. Of course, I don't of know any laptops with dual drives, but if you get an SSD it is more resistant to impact and has lower power consumption.

However, you can't mirror an SSD on a desktop with a hard drive (AFAIK). That would be a useful compromise between the SSD's speed and head crash invulnerability, vs the hard drive's ability to be written to more often.

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Re: Convoy escorts - SPOILER for SNIPPET 8 of HFQ
Post by AirTech   » Mon Dec 01, 2014 9:28 pm

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BobG wrote:
runsforcelery wrote:In the meantime, I'm taking the opportunity for a major hardware update (since I didn't have a whole heck of a lot of choice :roll:) and I'll be going to a pair of completely separate towers, plus mirrored drives in each, and a new, heavy-duty laptop with bunches more memory, RAM, and speed. "Take that, you silly cyber k-night!" :P

Hopefully by mirroring you mean Raid 1, I.e. a complete duplicate of the disk at all times. Of course, I don't of know any laptops with dual drives, but if you get an SSD it is more resistant to impact and has lower power consumption.

However, you can't mirror an SSD on a desktop with a hard drive (AFAIK). That would be a useful compromise between the SSD's speed and head crash invulnerability, vs the hard drive's ability to be written to more often.

-- Bob G


Dual drives on laptops are obtainable (I have a pair on my Acer and also on my HP) but you do need to opt for a larger form factor (17" screens on both) as the 10" units don't have the room, but some of the 15.6" ones do. Given a choice I would opt for RAID 10 or RAID 6 in a desktop for better speed.
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