Whatever. Point is, the people who are supposed to be using the words ("gibibyte") are not, in fact, using them. No programmer is using those units.
But the biggest problem is with standards organisations suddenly saying, "no wait, you can't use mega for that, nooooooooo" To hell with them and their late arrival to the party. 1kB is 1024 bytes. Live with it.
Anyway, the problem with changing the meaning [metric prefix][bit|byte] into something else is legacy. There is lots and lots of code, compiled programs and documentation out there that takes kB to mean 1024 bytes.
In short, if IEEE or any standards organisation thought this was a problem they should have said something sooner. A lot sooner. Like 25 years ago. Maybe, just maybe, 25 - 30 years ago they could have stood a chance. But now? Forget it. And the standards organisations insistence that kB means 1000 bytes just fuels the confusion. Fuck 'em and their kibibytes. Or their kilobibytes.
In 20 years time, the hosting company will have changed names 4 times, had 6 database outages completely wiping the Mysql DB, and have changed the location to the htdocs no less than 3 times.
In addition, when the site is accessed in 20 years, there will be a dns error.
Ever thought slashdot perhaps sniffed your use of ABP, and then 'gave' you the option of turning off ads?
This is, in fact, the/first/ thing that popped into my mind when I saw that checkbox to disable advertising. It would be a clever way to turn people who block ads into people who watch (your) ads.
It was designed with the potential to allow the use of more RAM than 4GB, but too many 3rd party drivers don't act correctly in this case. MS does not want to explain to each and every Joe "I'm a unique person" sixpack how they should contact the vendor of driver isv.sys. Most certainly, they would not be believed by their unique, intelligent, friendly, warm, kind and just plain wonderful customers.
This is why it is not supported.
As for it being a license check, it's entirely possible that MS has some test machines of Win32-bit that are running that configuration. Maybe there are even a few configurations of this in the wild. But I'm betting that in that case, MS will be billing their support by the hour, starting at the first second.
Dude, the master boot record on the first drive is the one the BIOS loads. And of course a install process for a operating systems sets itself up to be booted.
Next you would be telling me that if Windows didn't do this that it would be user-unfriendly to the people not running multiple OS's but with multiple hard-drives.
Make up your mind. Not just you, but all of you MS haters. It's not that I like Microsoft, but goddamn, some of the bitching that happens on this site is waaaay over the top. And inconsistent. I suppose that is because MS is a big target.
Just remember, every time a comment like the parent is posted, it's like a nagging girlfriend is saying, "I want to go hoooooome."
Most news is still meaningless filler. While I might want to know that a car with driver and 3 passengers was totaled in the neighborhood last Tuesday, I don't need a 2 page diatribe on how sad it is for the family.
This actually behaves as a multiplexer. You can transmit 2 ethernet signals on one ethernet wire, but you'll have to have another splitter at the other end of the ethernet wire.
Bottomline, this doesn't help as a replacement for a hub.
There goes my pre-order... not that I pre-order anything usually, this is the first single pre-order I did because of a (nearly) expired gift-certificate.
In addition to that, I'd like to say, expiring gift-certificates are lame.
Thinking you're just going to come up with a genius idea is showing a lot of disrespect to the people that are actually geniuses.
It's like a woman going to the gym, afraid to work out too hard; because she might end up looking like a bodybuilder. Like it's easy and something you can do with 2 hours a week.
Now, unless you stop thinking(dreaming) and start doing(implementing the idea) you're not ever going to find out if you could be a genius or not. Now, get the fuck off slashdot and don't come back until you're that genius.
Spinvox states a computerprogram will do the transcription and call upon human aide when it doesn't know how to transcribe something.
If there is in fact no computerprogram actually in use transcribing messages at spinvox then they are lying AND unethical.
If the computerprogram exists, is actually attempting to transcribe messages but is in fact failing in most cases; then they are not technically lying, but STILL unethical and falsely representing their business. (The last thing is still pretty important to stockholders.)
Anyway, if any of this is true on the scale it is implied, than Spinvox is morally and ethically bankrupt.
Anybody that "upgrades" a Windows operating system in place from one version to another is an idiot.
"You're not wrong, you're just out of line."
People should reinstall their Windows from scratch at least once a year.
Wrong. If you don't need a program, uninstall it. If you do need it, install it. In the end, the result is the same between the old system and the newly installed system.
Your reasoning is only correct for people who run as administrator all the time or for people who install any program they encounter. While this is common for most users, people who maintain their windows boxes like they do their linux boxes shouldn't need to reinstall every year.
Both writing a program on your own and working on a huge project can be valid next steps.
A huge multiprogrammer project can be just the thing. Creating your own program from scratch takes a lot more work and knowledge than just settling into a couple of niches in a large project and learning bits of the trade. A lot of programmers at your side working away at other parts of the same program also provides you with a great resource where you can ask them: "What do you think of this?"
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Do you really think iplg@microsoft.com will grant the Samba team a written license or possibly a patent license?
Has anyone asked?
Whatever. Point is, the people who are supposed to be using the words ("gibibyte") are not, in fact, using them. No programmer is using those units.
But the biggest problem is with standards organisations suddenly saying, "no wait, you can't use mega for that, nooooooooo"
To hell with them and their late arrival to the party. 1kB is 1024 bytes. Live with it.
Ahem.
http://www.google.com/search?q=1000+bytes+in+kB
1000 bytes = 0.9765625 kilobytes
http://www.google.com/search?q=1024+bytes+in+kiB
"kibibyte, what kibibyte?" (Acutally, shouldn't that be a kilobibyte?)
Anyway, the problem with changing the meaning [metric prefix][bit|byte] into something else is legacy. There is lots and lots of code, compiled programs and documentation out there that takes kB to mean 1024 bytes.
In short, if IEEE or any standards organisation thought this was a problem they should have said something sooner. A lot sooner. Like 25 years ago. Maybe, just maybe, 25 - 30 years ago they could have stood a chance. But now? Forget it. And the standards organisations insistence that kB means 1000 bytes just fuels the confusion. Fuck 'em and their kibibytes. Or their kilobibytes.
The degree to which a person can multitask and what kinds of multitasking he/she can do; is highly personal and differs a lot by gender.
For instance: women, in general, can process and respond to multiple, simultaneous and overlapping conversations.
While guys are amazed they can do this, they are amazed that guys can't.
You're good at this.
In 20 years time, the hosting company will have changed names 4 times, had 6 database outages completely wiping the Mysql DB, and have changed the location to the htdocs no less than 3 times.
In addition, when the site is accessed in 20 years, there will be a dns error.
I wish I was joking.
Ever thought slashdot perhaps sniffed your use of ABP, and then 'gave' you the option of turning off ads?
This is, in fact, the /first/ thing that popped into my mind when I saw that checkbox to disable advertising. It would be a clever way to turn people who block ads into people who watch (your) ads.
FUD. WinXP 32bit does not support 64GB of RAM.
It was designed with the potential to allow the use of more RAM than 4GB, but too many 3rd party drivers don't act correctly in this case. MS does not want to explain to each and every Joe "I'm a unique person" sixpack how they should contact the vendor of driver isv.sys. Most certainly, they would not be believed by their unique, intelligent, friendly, warm, kind and just plain wonderful customers.
This is why it is not supported.
As for it being a license check, it's entirely possible that MS has some test machines of Win32-bit that are running that configuration. Maybe there are even a few configurations of this in the wild. But I'm betting that in that case, MS will be billing their support by the hour, starting at the first second.
LockdownPC
if os == winnt
do not give Administrator password
else if os == linux
do not give Root password
Any power-user that is running as an Administrator/Root all the time, isn't a power-user.
No you can't. All sales are final.
The shady people were the registrar's /themselves/.
Thanks, I needed the laugh ;) (And I posted already, so I couldn't mod you up.)
Dude, the master boot record on the first drive is the one the BIOS loads. And of course a install process for a operating systems sets itself up to be booted.
Next you would be telling me that if Windows didn't do this that it would be user-unfriendly to the people not running multiple OS's but with multiple hard-drives.
Make up your mind. Not just you, but all of you MS haters. It's not that I like Microsoft, but goddamn, some of the bitching that happens on this site is waaaay over the top. And inconsistent. I suppose that is because MS is a big target.
Just remember, every time a comment like the parent is posted, it's like a nagging girlfriend is saying, "I want to go hoooooome."
I could look it up, but I want to emphasize first just _how_ antiquated the man is.
Evony's ads are the reason I recently started to use Adblock Plus. This after 15 years of not minding online ads.
Most news is still meaningless filler. While I might want to know that a car with driver and 3 passengers was totaled in the neighborhood last Tuesday, I don't need a 2 page diatribe on how sad it is for the family.
If you are doing this, fyi; you can setup *.lnk files to call run-as and prompt for an elevated password:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\runas.exe /user:machinename\elevatedaccountname "C:\Full path to.exe"
This actually behaves as a multiplexer. You can transmit 2 ethernet signals on one ethernet wire, but you'll have to have another splitter at the other end of the ethernet wire.
Bottomline, this doesn't help as a replacement for a hub.
There goes my pre-order... not that I pre-order anything usually, this is the first single pre-order I did because of a (nearly) expired gift-certificate.
In addition to that, I'd like to say, expiring gift-certificates are lame.
Mod me -1 drunk if you want.
Hang on? Is this copyright, or copy-sell-right?
Of course the school wants a permission form for some stuff. Basic CYA. But when you are a legal adult, just sign it yourself.
That reminds me, still have to get this printed on some plastic card for my wallet: "I am authorized to do what I'm doing. Signed: me."
What? How did this end up +5 Informative??
Thinking you're just going to come up with a genius idea is showing a lot of disrespect to the people that are actually geniuses.
It's like a woman going to the gym, afraid to work out too hard; because she might end up looking like a bodybuilder. Like it's easy and something you can do with 2 hours a week.
Now, unless you stop thinking(dreaming) and start doing(implementing the idea) you're not ever going to find out if you could be a genius or not. Now, get the fuck off slashdot and don't come back until you're that genius.
Spinvox states a computerprogram will do the transcription and call upon human aide when it doesn't know how to transcribe something.
If there is in fact no computerprogram actually in use transcribing messages at spinvox then they are lying AND unethical.
If the computerprogram exists, is actually attempting to transcribe messages but is in fact failing in most cases; then they are not technically lying, but STILL unethical and falsely representing their business. (The last thing is still pretty important to stockholders.)
Anyway, if any of this is true on the scale it is implied, than Spinvox is morally and ethically bankrupt.
Anybody that "upgrades" a Windows operating system in place from one version to another is an idiot.
"You're not wrong, you're just out of line."
People should reinstall their Windows from scratch at least once a year.
Wrong. If you don't need a program, uninstall it. If you do need it, install it. In the end, the result is the same between the old system and the newly installed system.
Your reasoning is only correct for people who run as administrator all the time or for people who install any program they encounter. While this is common for most users, people who maintain their windows boxes like they do their linux boxes shouldn't need to reinstall every year.
Both writing a program on your own and working on a huge project can be valid next steps.
A huge multiprogrammer project can be just the thing. Creating your own program from scratch takes a lot more work and knowledge than just settling into a couple of niches in a large project and learning bits of the trade. A lot of programmers at your side working away at other parts of the same program also provides you with a great resource where you can ask them: "What do you think of this?"
But, I agree with GP. Just do it.