the wavers are actually sliced out of big single crystalline cylinders; making the cylinders bigger was what slowed the progress of waver growth. I don't think you can "draw" the crystal in a conventional sense, but since the material is extremely clean, it should recrystalize back into a single crystal out of the melt.
I'd say the question is not "when will the last DVD burned in 2000" become unreadable, but when will the first one die. And the odds are, if you run a complete backup of all your kids pictures on CDR or similar 10 years ago, one of the 10 CDs is probably irretrievable. And that's where the 3 year rule comes from.
I personally use the "snapshot every month" to a portable drive stored off-site to get at least some true back-ups in our office. After I found out people were using the back-up server to archive and delete, instead of just backing up data kept on their desktops, this seemed advisable. One day I'm sure I get a real sysadmin with a budget and back-up tools (right after the flying pig ski races in hell).
Windows HPC has actually gotten decent reviews, probably because their programmers didn't have to listen to marketing demanding "backwards compatibility" and "make it idiot proof". We can always hope that Windows 8 will be a port of HPC to the desktop, just like XP was NT reworked.
I don't know, I remember 20 years ago in grad school (damn I'm getting old) people were doing cutting edge research on non-linear optic materials, sure to be the next thing allowing truly optical computers. Worked nice in the lab, and I still haven't seen an optical transistor in any advanced computer I'd bought since. Quantum computing has to make the step from the lab to the usable machine before I start buying into it's amazing predicted powers. Plus, their power is only predicted to be amazing against our current popular algorithms, if I have to bet of what's easier, coming up with a new algorithm that is not susceptible to quantum computing brute force attacks or making a quantum computer work, my bet is on the former.
I see you skipped on RTFA in best/. tradition; the whole problem is not with free users being locked out but PAYING premium google app customers being left in the dark.
It means a black hole of galaxy center dimensions, usually several million solar masses. There is a minimum mass for stable black holes, which was frequently quoted in the discussion on whether or not the LHC can produce an Earth-absorbing black hole. It's not near the energies available in the LHC, but you can have a "light" black hole of some solar mass as a result of the collapse of individual neutron stars if I recall
What really got me in tfa was the "merged black holes" so. Do black holes actually merge, or do the two of them just circle each other endlessly behind their united event horizons?
Catch him in another country, Germans love to go on vacations.
But, joke aside, my guess is the Germans will probably prosecute him anyway for what he did, what would proscribe prosecution here under double jeopardy.
This is for "other citizens", e. g. a US citizen arrested in Germany. Germany does not extradite to countries with the death penalty, so every extradition to the US needs a "we won't seek the death penalty" waiver from the US.
that's why I went back and looked up the German Grundgesetz.
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(2) Kein Deutscher darf an das Ausland ausgeliefert werden. Durch Gesetz kann eine abweichende Regelung für Auslieferungen an einen Mitgliedstaat der EuropÃischen Union oder an einen internationalen Gerichtshof getroffen werden, soweit rechtsstaatliche GrundsÃtze gewahrt sind.
I just picked ME/Xp as an example where very little of the old ME kernel made it in the "next version", unlike previous 95/98/ME transitions. And from TFA it is not clear if the mystery Bulgarians have an existing product to modify either.
yes, it read like someone decided that while the UI and the artwork were worth salvaging, but the backend code behind it was irreversibly bad. And decided to give someone money to take the good parts and reinmplement the basic function. Kinda like Bill Gates looking at Windows Me and opting to go XP.
actually you only have about 5 min of weightlessness. The guy better pop a viagra before they take off, or it will be the most expensive flop of film history.
Laws are something we observe, written into an often simple equation. Basically, we know nature observes this law, but we don't have a good way of writing a nice mathematical proof for it. Another other examples is the law of gravity, we know how to describe the effect, but the unified theory has eluded the physicists for a century.
So breaking the law is HIGHLY unlikely, but it's not an absolute in the sense of the speed of light or absolute zero.
Especially since there seem to be still doubt if most cracks are actually done by computer, or by humans. They all seem to be happening "off-line" at some unknown destination. Which might be a server cluster in some Russian university, or a sweat-shop in Bangladesh.
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well, it's a dead human, that ups the challenge
the wavers are actually sliced out of big single crystalline cylinders; making the cylinders bigger was what slowed the progress of waver growth. I don't think you can "draw" the crystal in a conventional sense, but since the material is extremely clean, it should recrystalize back into a single crystal out of the melt.
You liked boot disks with the correct version of emm386 memory settings for every game? You probably take pleasure in root canals and C-span too.
I'd say the question is not "when will the last DVD burned in 2000" become unreadable, but when will the first one die. And the odds are, if you run a complete backup of all your kids pictures on CDR or similar 10 years ago, one of the 10 CDs is probably irretrievable. And that's where the 3 year rule comes from.
I personally use the "snapshot every month" to a portable drive stored off-site to get at least some true back-ups in our office. After I found out people were using the back-up server to archive and delete, instead of just backing up data kept on their desktops, this seemed advisable. One day I'm sure I get a real sysadmin with a budget and back-up tools (right after the flying pig ski races in hell).
Windows HPC has actually gotten decent reviews, probably because their programmers didn't have to listen to marketing demanding "backwards compatibility" and "make it idiot proof". We can always hope that Windows 8 will be a port of HPC to the desktop, just like XP was NT reworked.
Have you looked at your typical mod point assignment? It's at least 63%
On the plus side so, you can use the device for "safe points"; who hasn't always wanted to "go back and do that section over" in real life.
well, you could put it all back on the 1,000,000 floppies you needed to read for the 1 TB data ...
Don't you think that the optical fiber you're dragging behind the sub will be a dead giveaway?
I don't know, I remember 20 years ago in grad school (damn I'm getting old) people were doing cutting edge research on non-linear optic materials, sure to be the next thing allowing truly optical computers. Worked nice in the lab, and I still haven't seen an optical transistor in any advanced computer I'd bought since. Quantum computing has to make the step from the lab to the usable machine before I start buying into it's amazing predicted powers.
Plus, their power is only predicted to be amazing against our current popular algorithms, if I have to bet of what's easier, coming up with a new algorithm that is not susceptible to quantum computing brute force attacks or making a quantum computer work, my bet is on the former.
I see you skipped on RTFA in best /. tradition; the whole problem is not with free users being locked out but PAYING premium google app customers being left in the dark.
Is that you, brenda@viagra.com?
It means a black hole of galaxy center dimensions, usually several million solar masses. There is a minimum mass for stable black holes, which was frequently quoted in the discussion on whether or not the LHC can produce an Earth-absorbing black hole. It's not near the energies available in the LHC, but you can have a "light" black hole of some solar mass as a result of the collapse of individual neutron stars if I recall
What really got me in tfa was the "merged black holes" so. Do black holes actually merge, or do the two of them just circle each other endlessly behind their united event horizons?
Catch him in another country, Germans love to go on vacations.
But, joke aside, my guess is the Germans will probably prosecute him anyway for what he did, what would proscribe prosecution here under double jeopardy.
This is for "other citizens", e. g. a US citizen arrested in Germany. Germany does not extradite to countries with the death penalty, so every extradition to the US needs a "we won't seek the death penalty" waiver from the US.
that's why I went back and looked up the German Grundgesetz.
Artikel 16
(2) Kein Deutscher darf an das Ausland ausgeliefert werden. Durch Gesetz kann eine abweichende Regelung für Auslieferungen an einen Mitgliedstaat der EuropÃischen Union oder an einen internationalen Gerichtshof getroffen werden, soweit rechtsstaatliche GrundsÃtze gewahrt sind.
They have an exception for EU member states and international courts, so the US is out.
AFAIK Germany doesn't extradite its citizens due to constitutional constrains, put there after the Nazi rule.
I just picked ME/Xp as an example where very little of the old ME kernel made it in the "next version", unlike previous 95/98/ME transitions.
And from TFA it is not clear if the mystery Bulgarians have an existing product to modify either.
yes, it read like someone decided that while the UI and the artwork were worth salvaging, but the backend code behind it was irreversibly bad. And decided to give someone money to take the good parts and reinmplement the basic function. Kinda like Bill Gates looking at Windows Me and opting to go XP.
actually you only have about 5 min of weightlessness. The guy better pop a viagra before they take off, or it will be the most expensive flop of film history.
Laws are something we observe, written into an often simple equation. Basically, we know nature observes this law, but we don't have a good way of writing a nice mathematical proof for it. Another other examples is the law of gravity, we know how to describe the effect, but the unified theory has eluded the physicists for a century.
So breaking the law is HIGHLY unlikely, but it's not an absolute in the sense of the speed of light or absolute zero.
If I have to wait 30 min for my booze I'm sure I find it more desirable afterward. It's called thirst.
The difference between a vodka and diluted everclear: Flavor
Especially since there seem to be still doubt if most cracks are actually done by computer, or by humans. They all seem to be happening "off-line" at some unknown destination. Which might be a server cluster in some Russian university, or a sweat-shop in Bangladesh.