Try this. It's very good. Though I doubt its half as much fun. Reading sheet music is like learning to read - it's hard at first but quickly gets easy with practice.
"Why simulate something you can actually do?"
In fact, it would be trivial to get a gun , steal a car and run over people. ,
Uhhh dude... have you any idea how much damage hitting real people with a real car does to the car? Especially a modern car. You wouldn't actually get very far.
But your point is well made. As a real guitarist, though I've never played Guitar hero, I am sure I'd enjoy it - plus it'd probably help with my rythm. And who knows, with a little R&D, why can't the controller become an instrument in its own right?
..Sometimes one filesystem type uses different sized blocks (1024, 4096) based on the size of the media. That's totally irrelevant to the user and just gets tacked into the filesystem overhead along with space for directory entries, timestamps, filenames and security attributes. Some filesystems can even pile multiple small file fragments within a single block, rendering your argument totally invalid. None of these low-level implementation details need to show up in a directory listing, especially if it makes it needlessly impossible to do mental computations on the displayed numbers.
Ummm... last time I checked 1024!=1000... Also, the free space on any given disk is always a multiple of the block size which is always a multiple of 2.
The fact remains that computers are completely based around a binary number system. While you can hide that, you can't run away from it. There are abnormal people in the world who are good at power of two math, but I grant you the point that most people are better at base 10 math.
It occured to me that this is all moot, since the average user just drags files into k3b/nero until he runs out of space. But to answer your origional question: about 43. The exact answer of 44(you can't have part files or your question is irrelavent) is a nice bonus - which is probably why people sued creative. 43 is close enough for any practical purposes of estimation. Noone has had to manually calculate disk space for ages. You may choose to, but you don't have to.
But if we hide all the low level details from you you'll start complaining that your group of 10 000 234888 byte files is taking more disk space than it should. Perhaps if the user is "too dumb" to see these low level details perhaps the user should just get a pie chart like in say, windows?
From the operating system's (and therefore the user's) point of view the smallest unit on the drive is 512bytes. You are therefore suggesting that we take this "unit" of 512bytes and multiply it by powers of ten...???
The logical structure of any particular drive has nothing to do with the case. Whichever system is used, the end user will be presented with fractions.
Now to clarify for you; disk drives are divided up into sectors of 512bytes. It is unpractical and dificult to write to a fraction of a sector, therefore a whole number of sectors is always used to store a file. This intricatly ties the number 512 with the size of all files on any disk(and therefore free space by the way). 512 is 2^9, or half a "kilobyte". Now either we use powers of two and retain consistency or we don't and loose it. It is actually that simple. Powers of two give us an informative and useful indication of disk space. They may not be as "user-friendly" as you would like, but they are certainly more practical.
But I guess computing power and storage space are cheap enough for people to waste them making conversions for the users that "cant understand powers of two", although I reckon it would cause more confusion then it would solve. Most people don't even know about this issue or care, but changing now would cause problems with anyone who took the time to try and understand.
And everyone always forgets that the minimum allocation size on a hard disk is 512bytes so it actually makes sense to report the space in powers of 2. Even for the clueless consumer. And it therefore makes less sense for the drive manufacturer (who designs their drives to allocate in 512byte blocks) to report the sizes in powers of 10. It is highly inconsistent.
A PC3200 (as in 3200 MByte/s) memory stick is 3200 * 10^6 byte/s (power of 10)
One Byte being 8 bits... Or two nibbles..
Also note that RAM is measured in powers of 2 -due to the way the processor accesses it. It would be ludicrous from both the technical and consumer point of view to do otherwise; it is something that can not be changed. So why not change what we can (e.g. hard drive sizes) change to be consistent with what we cant change?
In any case Operating systems use use powers of two to measure disk space for the same reason we use powers of two for RAM: it makes more sense. Did you not realize that disk space is allocated in a minimum of a 512byte (2^9) size block?
Its not as bad as it sounds once you remove some of the sillier options, eg indexed searching. I'll get flamed for this, but it is way faster then XFCE4 on the same machine. ICEWM lacks functionality, and my setup faster then XP. RAM usage with nothing loaded is about 100Mb, with a web browser loaded, about the same as XP. The custom Kernel helps a lot. I use mandriva as well, but beacuse I can install other desktop environments I dont need to go the DSL route.
I dont understand why we actually need so much RAM just to run a decent desktop environment. Or why there are no standard type interfaces that are small and fast. Windows 95 is more functional than some of these light desktops for goodness sake. Where is the simple fast desktop environment that is also functional enough to use every day?
Seriously, IANA American, but I happen to know first hand what happens when a government is able to keep too many secrets(google Zimbabwe Election Results..) from its people. Its a recipe for disaster. It implies the government controls what you hear.
I'd say that the idea of an Open Government is best: Only critical secrets may be kept with full disclosure after a short period of time, say two years maximum. But then having been burnt perhaps I'm not as objective as I should be...
OK, I know I'm insane, but I run KDE3.5 on a Pentium II 266 laptop with 80Mb of RAM, and a decently fast hard disk. Why KDE? because bar Windows 98, I've found it's the fastest most useful desktop environment. Dude, there is something seriously wrong with your install. Try recompiling your kernel - it helps a lot and is really easy to do.
Funny, but think what a great advert that'd be for Microsoft's systems... "Buy our servers; they lose all incriminating evidence automatically. And as for our backup software, your data is never so securely lost!"
Seriously, if they try and pull that off, they'll be a laughing stock.
Its not just old data... I recently had to virtualize an entire system using qemu, because the hardware died and the software did not support modern hardware.
On the plus side, the virtual machine will now run on any modern hardware - as long as it has an ethernet port for the dumb terminals to connect to. What else can you do with people who can't/won't upgrade their systems?
Actually, I'd say free will can be predictable. If you throw a stick and your dog chases it, you did not make your dog chase it, but you know it will. Scale it up and make it more complex for humans. You can always choose not to chase the stick... But then we know you're gonna do that too...:) I think the "free" part just implies that the choice is there.
ARMOR (Assistant for Randomized Monitoring over Routes) is approximately AMOR (Amusing Misuse of Resources...)
There is an extra "R". But essentially it amounts to the same thing.
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It willy be very very very slow. btw, not an infinite loop. Don't see how you could make a loop. I know, yes, you were going for funny.
Try this. It's very good. Though I doubt its half as much fun. Reading sheet music is like learning to read - it's hard at first but quickly gets easy with practice.
Uhhh dude... have you any idea how much damage hitting real people with a real car does to the car? Especially a modern car. You wouldn't actually get very far.
But your point is well made. As a real guitarist, though I've never played Guitar hero, I am sure I'd enjoy it - plus it'd probably help with my rythm. And who knows, with a little R&D, why can't the controller become an instrument in its own right?
use DHT... Trackerless torrents. http://www.utorrent.com/faq.php#What_is_DHT.3F They'll still go after individuals... But thankfully I'm outside their jurisdiction...
Brilliant! But you need 1-point-twenty-one jigawatts... And a flux capacitor...
..Sometimes one filesystem type uses different sized blocks (1024, 4096) based on the size of the media. That's totally irrelevant to the user and just gets tacked into the filesystem overhead along with space for directory entries, timestamps, filenames and security attributes. Some filesystems can even pile multiple small file fragments within a single block, rendering your argument totally invalid. None of these low-level implementation details need to show up in a directory listing, especially if it makes it needlessly impossible to do mental computations on the displayed numbers.Ummm... last time I checked 1024!=1000... Also, the free space on any given disk is always a multiple of the block size which is always a multiple of 2.
The fact remains that computers are completely based around a binary number system. While you can hide that, you can't run away from it. There are abnormal people in the world who are good at power of two math, but I grant you the point that most people are better at base 10 math.
It occured to me that this is all moot, since the average user just drags files into k3b/nero until he runs out of space. But to answer your origional question: about 43. The exact answer of 44(you can't have part files or your question is irrelavent) is a nice bonus - which is probably why people sued creative. 43 is close enough for any practical purposes of estimation. Noone has had to manually calculate disk space for ages. You may choose to, but you don't have to.
But if we hide all the low level details from you you'll start complaining that your group of 10 000 234888 byte files is taking more disk space than it should. Perhaps if the user is "too dumb" to see these low level details perhaps the user should just get a pie chart like in say, windows?
From the operating system's (and therefore the user's) point of view the smallest unit on the drive is 512bytes. You are therefore suggesting that we take this "unit" of 512bytes and multiply it by powers of ten...???
The logical structure of any particular drive has nothing to do with the case. Whichever system is used, the end user will be presented with fractions.
Now to clarify for you; disk drives are divided up into sectors of 512bytes. It is unpractical and dificult to write to a fraction of a sector, therefore a whole number of sectors is always used to store a file. This intricatly ties the number 512 with the size of all files on any disk(and therefore free space by the way). 512 is 2^9, or half a "kilobyte". Now either we use powers of two and retain consistency or we don't and loose it. It is actually that simple. Powers of two give us an informative and useful indication of disk space. They may not be as "user-friendly" as you would like, but they are certainly more practical.
But I guess computing power and storage space are cheap enough for people to waste them making conversions for the users that "cant understand powers of two", although I reckon it would cause more confusion then it would solve. Most people don't even know about this issue or care, but changing now would cause problems with anyone who took the time to try and understand.
And everyone always forgets that the minimum allocation size on a hard disk is 512bytes so it actually makes sense to report the space in powers of 2. Even for the clueless consumer. And it therefore makes less sense for the drive manufacturer (who designs their drives to allocate in 512byte blocks) to report the sizes in powers of 10. It is highly inconsistent.
A PC3200 (as in 3200 MByte/s) memory stick is 3200 * 10^6 byte/s (power of 10)
One Byte being 8 bits... Or two nibbles..
Also note that RAM is measured in powers of 2 -due to the way the processor accesses it. It would be ludicrous from both the technical and consumer point of view to do otherwise; it is something that can not be changed. So why not change what we can (e.g. hard drive sizes) change to be consistent with what we cant change?
In any case Operating systems use use powers of two to measure disk space for the same reason we use powers of two for RAM: it makes more sense. Did you not realize that disk space is allocated in a minimum of a 512byte (2^9) size block?
Never underestimate the usefullness of an drive image, and therefore the ability to put the machine back exactly as it was.
Its not as bad as it sounds once you remove some of the sillier options, eg indexed searching. I'll get flamed for this, but it is way faster then XFCE4 on the same machine. ICEWM lacks functionality, and my setup faster then XP. RAM usage with nothing loaded is about 100Mb, with a web browser loaded, about the same as XP. The custom Kernel helps a lot. I use mandriva as well, but beacuse I can install other desktop environments I dont need to go the DSL route.
I dont understand why we actually need so much RAM just to run a decent desktop environment. Or why there are no standard type interfaces that are small and fast. Windows 95 is more functional than some of these light desktops for goodness sake. Where is the simple fast desktop environment that is also functional enough to use every day?
I guess it all boils down to balance. I suspect either view taken to extremes is dangerous.
the Stargate Program is finally going Public...?
Seriously, IANA American, but I happen to know first hand what happens when a government is able to keep too many secrets(google Zimbabwe Election Results..) from its people. Its a recipe for disaster. It implies the government controls what you hear.
I'd say that the idea of an Open Government is best: Only critical secrets may be kept with full disclosure after a short period of time, say two years maximum. But then having been burnt perhaps I'm not as objective as I should be...
OK, I know I'm insane, but I run KDE3.5 on a Pentium II 266 laptop with 80Mb of RAM, and a decently fast hard disk. Why KDE? because bar Windows 98, I've found it's the fastest most useful desktop environment. Dude, there is something seriously wrong with your install. Try recompiling your kernel - it helps a lot and is really easy to do.
I still use PIC16F877As. Around 4Kb memory and 35 instructions. Its amazing what you can do with so little.
No, this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mugabe
And you Americans think you have problems.
Bill Gates a Troll? Seriously, though, it is news. In the same way its news when a president says something. Even an evil one.
Funny, but think what a great advert that'd be for Microsoft's systems... "Buy our servers; they lose all incriminating evidence automatically. And as for our backup software, your data is never so securely lost!"
Seriously, if they try and pull that off, they'll be a laughing stock.
Its not just old data... I recently had to virtualize an entire system using qemu, because the hardware died and the software did not support modern hardware.
On the plus side, the virtual machine will now run on any modern hardware - as long as it has an ethernet port for the dumb terminals to connect to. What else can you do with people who can't/won't upgrade their systems?
Actually, I'd say free will can be predictable. If you throw a stick and your dog chases it, you did not make your dog chase it, but you know it will. Scale it up and make it more complex for humans. You can always choose not to chase the stick... But then we know you're gonna do that too... :) I think the "free" part just implies that the choice is there.
Just FYI, AMOR is a little program that runs on an X desktop and does exactly what it says...
ARMOR (Assistant for Randomized Monitoring over Routes) is approximately AMOR (Amusing Misuse of Resources...) There is an extra "R". But essentially it amounts to the same thing.
"If an american moves to china and then breaks an american IP law."
Which is not the case here. They were still in "America". As I said, read it.
In any case, what I am disputing here is the motivation behind killing everyone. It is certainly not hate.
"If an american moves to china and then breaks an american IP law. They are not in trouble"
Which is of course not the case here. As I said, read it...
My kingdom, mod points and all my carma just to be able to mod you +5 Disturbing...