I have been using computers since 1992 and I have never seen any drive fail here.
Disclaimer: I'm Dutch and and the current amount of harddisks working now is 7(3+1+2+1). 2 of them are over 6 years old. And I have a computer running a CRT screen from 1993. I must be the guy with all the luck or hard drives really don't fail that often. I do not buy special drives. I like my hard drives big and cheap.
"How on earth do zero seek time and no moving parts not qualify under "significant and intrinsic advantage"? Zero seek time alone represents a sea change for mass storage -- access many orders of magnitude slower than the rest of the system has been a major assumption encoded in much software (and hardware) architecture for decades. We'll be feeling the repercussions of the end of rotating media for decades more. Yes, the price needs to come down for SSD's to annihilate traditional hard drives... but SSD's will steadily eat up HDD territory in the mean time."
Well, what does this mean in real life? Zero seek time means reading it will be a lot faster. No moving parts means it will be less likely to break down.
But I don't care if I have a slower HDD and NONE of my harddisks have failed me. Unless SDDs become about the same price as the HDD and can carry an equivalent amount of data(certainly not less) it just isn't very interesting for me. I simply cannot justify the difference in costs. I mean, what's 128GB in a world of HD movies? It's nothing. Unless this becomes cheaper, it will face the same hardships as blu-ray. They are both better, but a reasonable person cannot justify the extra spending right now.
And still it is about 10 times more expensive than a hdd. If this doesn't get any cheaper, it won't get any popularity. If a new tech wants to replace an old tech it needs a significant and intrinsic advantage otherwise it will be adopted at a snails pace.
Well, I am also interested in crypto and the most in human doable(by hand) crypto. I have even made a more secure version(at least I think it is) of the Vigenere encryption scheme.
"Soldiers on the battlefield kill, people who work on death row kill, doctors who administer euthanasia kill... Hans MURDERED her."
I don't see the difference between killing and murdering. Soldier murder. People who work on death row murder. You end someones live because you think it is just. The soldiers justify their actions by claiming the enemy is evil. The people who work on death row justify their actions by claiming the person they will kill is evil.
What if Hans Reiser has the idea that his wife is evil? Does that make him someone who kills instead of murders?
That's all we need. An open source sockpuppet. Since open source software is usually better it will be able to mask as a regular/.er more effectively. Damn you open source and your effectiveness!
Highly unlikely. Are old paitings worthless because we have high definition movies now? No, because they are considered works of art. This is the same for the Stradivarius.
There needs to be light from a source other than your screen. Let it be the sun or a lamp that you don't have to look at directly. If you do this correctly, the colour scheme doesn't matter a lot. If the screen is your primary source of light, your eyes will be hurt.
"Also, 7.7 million of the total came from the US. It would be great to see a larger overseas distribution, especially considering the pledges that were signed in places like Africa. "
Indeed, there were a few hundred pledges from North-Korea. Anyone who knows anything about the state of the NK internet knows that it is a closed circuit.
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And I thank Jerry Yang's ego very much for that.
They either need to replaced or it must be built up from scratch. If this does not happen, there can NEVER be any trust in them again.
Fuck ISO
I have been using computers since 1992 and I have never seen any drive fail here.
Disclaimer: I'm Dutch and and the current amount of harddisks working now is 7(3+1+2+1). 2 of them are over 6 years old. And I have a computer running a CRT screen from 1993. I must be the guy with all the luck or hard drives really don't fail that often. I do not buy special drives. I like my hard drives big and cheap.
"How on earth do zero seek time and no moving parts not qualify under "significant and intrinsic advantage"? Zero seek time alone represents a sea change for mass storage -- access many orders of magnitude slower than the rest of the system has been a major assumption encoded in much software (and hardware) architecture for decades. We'll be feeling the repercussions of the end of rotating media for decades more. Yes, the price needs to come down for SSD's to annihilate traditional hard drives... but SSD's will steadily eat up HDD territory in the mean time."
Well, what does this mean in real life? Zero seek time means reading it will be a lot faster. No moving parts means it will be less likely to break down.
But I don't care if I have a slower HDD and NONE of my harddisks have failed me. Unless SDDs become about the same price as the HDD and can carry an equivalent amount of data(certainly not less) it just isn't very interesting for me. I simply cannot justify the difference in costs. I mean, what's 128GB in a world of HD movies? It's nothing. Unless this becomes cheaper, it will face the same hardships as blu-ray. They are both better, but a reasonable person cannot justify the extra spending right now.
And still it is about 10 times more expensive than a hdd. If this doesn't get any cheaper, it won't get any popularity. If a new tech wants to replace an old tech it needs a significant and intrinsic advantage otherwise it will be adopted at a snails pace.
Well, I am also interested in crypto and the most in human doable(by hand) crypto. I have even made a more secure version(at least I think it is) of the Vigenere encryption scheme.
A Ceasar cipher IS a replacement cipher. Just a really easy one(and an easily crackable one).
"Soldiers on the battlefield kill, people who work on death row kill, doctors who administer euthanasia kill... Hans MURDERED her."
I don't see the difference between killing and murdering. Soldier murder. People who work on death row murder. You end someones live because you think it is just. The soldiers justify their actions by claiming the enemy is evil. The people who work on death row justify their actions by claiming the person they will kill is evil.
What if Hans Reiser has the idea that his wife is evil? Does that make him someone who kills instead of murders?
Replacement cipher.
Translation table:
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I bet 0,02 cents on yes.
My mind is screwed. It immediatly thought of RMS wielding a big a big katana running like a madman towards Gates and a legion of MS employees.
That's all we need. An open source sockpuppet. Since open source software is usually better it will be able to mask as a regular /.er more effectively. Damn you open source and your effectiveness!
Oh wait, the other Twitter...
In the German state Bavaria, the police trojans you!
No, it simply doesn't have that ring to it.
but does the trojan run on linux?
Highly unlikely. Are old paitings worthless because we have high definition movies now? No, because they are considered works of art. This is the same for the Stradivarius.
There needs to be light from a source other than your screen. Let it be the sun or a lamp that you don't have to look at directly. If you do this correctly, the colour scheme doesn't matter a lot. If the screen is your primary source of light, your eyes will be hurt.
"Also, 7.7 million of the total came from the US. It would be great to see a larger overseas distribution, especially considering the pledges that were signed in places like Africa.
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Indeed, there were a few hundred pledges from North-Korea. Anyone who knows anything about the state of the NK internet knows that it is a closed circuit.
It's over 9000!!
Include large quantities of arsenic in my computer. I mean, what could possibly go wrong!
"PC Repair in Texas now requires a pi license"
Want to fix PCs? Recite the first 100 decimal places of pi.
Take the weight of the current sovereign of the United Kingdom and divide it by 120. That's how the other Imperial measurements work really.
More like; FF640k ought to be enough for anybody.
"Fast and clean"
Guess what ideal webbrowser and ideal hookers have in common.
Because your iris won't be properly scanned if you don't.
Posting a link to a 500 MB file. That won't be a problem ;)