They are using them to illustrate real-world examples of sound quality. When someone says "FM quality sound" they don't mean a FM modulated signal, they mean the relative sound quality of an FM broadcast coming out of your stereo. Same goes for "CD quality sound", they obviously don't mean an arrangement of pits on a rotating disc.
He's not a real-life 'superhero', he's a real-life hero.
A store owner follows a suspected thief around his store and then asks for assistance from the general public to prevent the suspect from leaving, then calls the cops. Where exactly was the "hero" in any of that?
This no-news is only "news" because tabloid media loves pointing and laughing at nerds dressed in costumes.
- Physical media - this is the risk - most new machines these days can't read 3 1/2" floppies, let alone anything older, but so long as you migrate contents of your old physical media onto new media formats - AND you have multiple copies of important stuff - that shouldn't be a problem.
I get your point but you've used a terrible example. If you NEED to read a 3 1/2" floppy, then you can go and buy a new or used floppy drive for under $10. Most mobos still come with a floppy interface, just the drive is not bundled because most people don't use them.
HD-DVD kit was cheaper, region free, and had less troublesome DRM as well as dual DVD/HD-DVD discs actually on the market, I suspect all things being equal these factors alone would've made it the consumer choice otherwise.
In Blu-Ray's favour it has more than double the storage capacity of HD DVD (25GB vs 12GB). Consumers as a whole don't care about DRM or Region Coding, they care about shiny discs and big flat-screen TVs.
In order for EC2 capacity to be highly available (I haven't yet heard of people waiting in a queue for hours for an instance), it seems obvious that Amazon must have a large amount of computing power in standby.
This process of auctioning off the extra processing power based on fluctuating capacity seems like a win-win situation for Amazon AND users. Users who want increased processing, but are not time-bound, can get "off-peak" rates. Meanwhile Amazon can make money off the "idle" processors which are still available to be reserved as an EC2 instance.
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I forget who said it, but some comedian said we should remove the warnings from everything, and let nature sort it out.
I have a hunch it was George Carlin, maybe someone can find the video evidence.
So a blogger looks at five websites and makes a cultural conclusion based on that? That's just not science.
I've been to Japanese websites, and sometimes instead of words they use a single Unicode character to denote a link. That's minimalism.
I can't believe I wasted my time reading that dribble from D-Link.
In short, you can't buy the magical 802.11n router “because the market is not asking for it”.
A tool using his *magical and revolutionary* tools to control tools.
I only see the "phonebook" sized directories used to prop open doors or as monitor stands.
OTOH the "paperback" sized directories are useful for carrying in cars or keeping on a handy shelf.
It's no coincidence that the IT Crowd also showed the effectiveness of emailing the fire dept, a somewhat similar action to a "police button".
They are using them to illustrate real-world examples of sound quality. When someone says "FM quality sound" they don't mean a FM modulated signal, they mean the relative sound quality of an FM broadcast coming out of your stereo. Same goes for "CD quality sound", they obviously don't mean an arrangement of pits on a rotating disc.
Partitioning is not even possible, because on XP, only IA-64 supported GPT.
I created a 3TB secondary volume using RAID and Windows XP 32bit has no problem creating 2 x 1.5TB partitions with it.
If you want something kept private, DEFEND IT WITH LIVE AMMUNITION.
I would like to introduce you to the Streisand effect.
In Australia a petty criminal will be armed with a knife, not a firearm.
He's not a real-life 'superhero', he's a real-life hero.
A store owner follows a suspected thief around his store and then asks for assistance from the general public to prevent the suspect from leaving, then calls the cops. Where exactly was the "hero" in any of that?
This no-news is only "news" because tabloid media loves pointing and laughing at nerds dressed in costumes.
Czjzek's team compared the microbial genomes of 13 Japanese people with those of 18 North Americans.
Unless there is a scientific reason for not testing more people, a sample size of 31 sounds worse than a school project effort.
Five of the Japanese subjects harbored the enzyme, but among the North Americans, "we didn't find a single one," says Czjzek
Fixed "conclusion" should be: Americans, and almost 60% of Japanese, don't have guts for sushi.
The Ipad app includes mandatory douchbag hipster tax.
I suppose a subset of people who buy the Ipad also know how to use a web browser and thus can access the Online WSJ without the added tax.
That sounds like a bruteforce dictionary attack.
Mandatory Dennou Coil reference.
I use Ubuntu but not Gnome. You see, with Linux the user can choose the UI.
If you wanted something that looked or behaved like Windows then you would be looking at KDE, not Gnome.
- Physical media - this is the risk - most new machines these days can't read 3 1/2" floppies, let alone anything older, but so long as you migrate contents of your old physical media onto new media formats - AND you have multiple copies of important stuff - that shouldn't be a problem.
I get your point but you've used a terrible example. If you NEED to read a 3 1/2" floppy, then you can go and buy a new or used floppy drive for under $10. Most mobos still come with a floppy interface, just the drive is not bundled because most people don't use them.
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They've already got a copy of your Geocities sites from the first Digital Dark Age.
HD-DVD kit was cheaper, region free, and had less troublesome DRM as well as dual DVD/HD-DVD discs actually on the market, I suspect all things being equal these factors alone would've made it the consumer choice otherwise.
In Blu-Ray's favour it has more than double the storage capacity of HD DVD (25GB vs 12GB). Consumers as a whole don't care about DRM or Region Coding, they care about shiny discs and big flat-screen TVs.
That just goes to show that with enough resources, you can brute-force anything.
Pretty sure Google proved this long ago.
Surprisingly you appear to be quite Safe in OZ
In order for EC2 capacity to be highly available (I haven't yet heard of people waiting in a queue for hours for an instance), it seems obvious that Amazon must have a large amount of computing power in standby.
This process of auctioning off the extra processing power based on fluctuating capacity seems like a win-win situation for Amazon AND users. Users who want increased processing, but are not time-bound, can get "off-peak" rates. Meanwhile Amazon can make money off the "idle" processors which are still available to be reserved as an EC2 instance.
Parent seems to have missed the point of keyboard shortcut.
I was referencing Pontypool but that Monty Python skit is also relevant.
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