What I find creepy storagewise is microSD AKA Transflash. Having used 3.5 and 5.25 in floppies, some of which may have even been 360k, having a gigabyte or two in a tiny plastic package about the mass and volume of one of my ever-bitten fingernails, and not only that but having it be CHEAP is kinda mindblowing. I used to play some games that are still pretty fun on a copy of DOS that would have taken 32 partitions just to address that much space!
To be honest flash is more than enough these days. It takes a day or more of pretty constant listening to get sick of a 1-2 gig of songs so a complete music library doesn't have to fit on your player all at once. Heck, the piddling 192 meg on my Rio500 was more than enough until I started doing pizza delivery and spending hours on end in my car every day.
The raw inconvenience (not to mention fears of identity theft) should be more than enough to reduce the stream of users to a trickle. When you present content the convenience of access is a large determining factor in the size of the market you actually reach.
The real advantage is when you're the government you can MAKE people pay for the services. This is important to note as it allows services to exist that would otherwise never happen or be a barely functioning charity at the best.
Actually given that I despise private beaches, I wouldn't really care. I might be bothered if he behaved in an unacceptable fashion, but by that point I could probably just call the cops. You don't buy into a contract that has terms you don't like and just decide to ignore the terms, unless you can show the contract wasn't legal in the first place.
In my experience WindowsCE 1 and 2 on a Handheld PC wasn't actually all that bad. It's when things went to the palm form-factor that stuff started getting real obtuse. The way I see it a very large portion of the problem is the user interface. A machine with a keyboard (and a window manager) is just that much better.
Epsons do that. The permanent piezoelectric printhead can be a source of headaches. Does wonders for image quality though, not that every inkjet on planet Earth can't make convincing photos by now.
I don't even like the guy and never thought we should have actually attacked in the first place. It doesn't make countries expending enormous sums of money on redundant services out of spite any less humorous though.
Personally I think there's something cool about using a file system written by a deranged genius. It gives a certain level of flare to a linux install.
At this rate though the administration will have changed before the alternative systems are up. Also the installed civilian userbase is so huge (and in many cases wealthy) that the slim possibility of the system being changed to somehow block access to some seems quite ridiculous. And I mean that in the most literal sense as in I am making fun of you for even suggesting it.
This has been discussed many places and the consensus is that it severely weakens private copyright. With this an artist who shows work low-res online could be anonymized by someone else grabbing the work to post on a forum or the like. This breaks the chain and makes the artist impossible to track. This isn't a problem if you're the RIAA or other MAFIAA as your spy network will catch it for you, but for the little guy, such as ever private artist and photographer out there this is total murder.
When you think about it this has mostly just been produced as a bandaid to allow things like archiving to occur in the absence of a strong public domain and working fair use.
I don't. It's pointless if you format your code decently. The bracket and the knockdown in tabbing should be enough. The only place I can see it being useful is when you have a truckload of nested brackets and even then you want something a lot more useful than "end while" it should at least name the stinking loop.
That said, if they're as neutral as they say there's nothing to fear. They shouldn't be hostile towards it, it's just preaching to the choir. Unfortunately there's a bit or tribalism here, even on the scientific side. It's not rational, but it's there.
Sounds good to me. Any time expected physical wear and tear destroys data irrevocably it means you're packing the data too tight. Explains why I still don't fully trust DVD's for backup.
The only way Free Software can be loosing people money is because it reduces duplication of effort. Otherwise it's just money going to different people. I consider that a good thing as it means the money could be spent on something else, like wages. Not that anyone would do something so foolish as to pay their own workers properly in this day and age.
Not exactly. As I understand it holographic media works fundamentally different from an optical disk and no bit is dependent on a single location on the disk. Instead of a scratch taking out several bits from different tracks that the CRC codes make up for a scratch makes a large number of bits loose definition uncritically. In this fashion a holographic disk would take quite a few scratches with no data lost until it started reaching a threshold where all of the bits started to read unreliably all at once. That said I'm coming from Wikipedia so who knows how biased and inaccurate that information is for this particular technology.
I can see doing this for nonexistant domains, but doing it for sub-domains is treading on very thin ice. When someone registers a domain they've been entitled to control over all the sub-domains and serving ads on their domain like this could very easily be argued as a major break of trademark law. It was a seriously braindead decision as suddenly it's no longer a victimless crime, and the victims may have the money to afford lawyers in this case.
To be honest I'd never suggest it with OpenOffice available in this day and age it just makes no sense. The value of Microsoft products in compatibility and when you can get a more compatible product for less money Works has no reason to exist except for widespread ignorance of the existence of OpenOffice.
Radon has this annoying tendency to emit alpha radiation. Alpha radiation does nasty things to any materials it contacts by embedding helium nuclei in their structure. That and it has a half life of less than 4 days so it's not really suitable for any sort of long term use, and if you're using an ion drive you've already chose to do things the long, efficient way.
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Because CC is the standard range of licenses for the artistic rather than coding community?
What I find creepy storagewise is microSD AKA Transflash. Having used 3.5 and 5.25 in floppies, some of which may have even been 360k, having a gigabyte or two in a tiny plastic package about the mass and volume of one of my ever-bitten fingernails, and not only that but having it be CHEAP is kinda mindblowing. I used to play some games that are still pretty fun on a copy of DOS that would have taken 32 partitions just to address that much space!
To be honest flash is more than enough these days. It takes a day or more of pretty constant listening to get sick of a 1-2 gig of songs so a complete music library doesn't have to fit on your player all at once. Heck, the piddling 192 meg on my Rio500 was more than enough until I started doing pizza delivery and spending hours on end in my car every day.
The raw inconvenience (not to mention fears of identity theft) should be more than enough to reduce the stream of users to a trickle. When you present content the convenience of access is a large determining factor in the size of the market you actually reach.
The real advantage is when you're the government you can MAKE people pay for the services. This is important to note as it allows services to exist that would otherwise never happen or be a barely functioning charity at the best.
Actually given that I despise private beaches, I wouldn't really care. I might be bothered if he behaved in an unacceptable fashion, but by that point I could probably just call the cops. You don't buy into a contract that has terms you don't like and just decide to ignore the terms, unless you can show the contract wasn't legal in the first place.
In my experience WindowsCE 1 and 2 on a Handheld PC wasn't actually all that bad. It's when things went to the palm form-factor that stuff started getting real obtuse. The way I see it a very large portion of the problem is the user interface. A machine with a keyboard (and a window manager) is just that much better.
Every other time you go to a protest. You prepare to get pepper-balled to death on the remain ones.
Epsons do that. The permanent piezoelectric printhead can be a source of headaches. Does wonders for image quality though, not that every inkjet on planet Earth can't make convincing photos by now.
I don't even like the guy and never thought we should have actually attacked in the first place. It doesn't make countries expending enormous sums of money on redundant services out of spite any less humorous though.
Personally I think there's something cool about using a file system written by a deranged genius. It gives a certain level of flare to a linux install.
At this rate though the administration will have changed before the alternative systems are up. Also the installed civilian userbase is so huge (and in many cases wealthy) that the slim possibility of the system being changed to somehow block access to some seems quite ridiculous. And I mean that in the most literal sense as in I am making fun of you for even suggesting it.
This has been discussed many places and the consensus is that it severely weakens private copyright. With this an artist who shows work low-res online could be anonymized by someone else grabbing the work to post on a forum or the like. This breaks the chain and makes the artist impossible to track. This isn't a problem if you're the RIAA or other MAFIAA as your spy network will catch it for you, but for the little guy, such as ever private artist and photographer out there this is total murder.
When you think about it this has mostly just been produced as a bandaid to allow things like archiving to occur in the absence of a strong public domain and working fair use.
I don't. It's pointless if you format your code decently. The bracket and the knockdown in tabbing should be enough. The only place I can see it being useful is when you have a truckload of nested brackets and even then you want something a lot more useful than "end while" it should at least name the stinking loop.
We need an "I support the War on Space" t-shirt.
That said, if they're as neutral as they say there's nothing to fear. They shouldn't be hostile towards it, it's just preaching to the choir. Unfortunately there's a bit or tribalism here, even on the scientific side. It's not rational, but it's there.
Sounds good to me. Any time expected physical wear and tear destroys data irrevocably it means you're packing the data too tight. Explains why I still don't fully trust DVD's for backup.
The only way Free Software can be loosing people money is because it reduces duplication of effort. Otherwise it's just money going to different people. I consider that a good thing as it means the money could be spent on something else, like wages. Not that anyone would do something so foolish as to pay their own workers properly in this day and age.
Which in my experience is a royal pain to try to do with Office when everyone who's not a geek loses their disks.
Not exactly. As I understand it holographic media works fundamentally different from an optical disk and no bit is dependent on a single location on the disk. Instead of a scratch taking out several bits from different tracks that the CRC codes make up for a scratch makes a large number of bits loose definition uncritically. In this fashion a holographic disk would take quite a few scratches with no data lost until it started reaching a threshold where all of the bits started to read unreliably all at once. That said I'm coming from Wikipedia so who knows how biased and inaccurate that information is for this particular technology.
It should actually be pretty simple I think. If there are any DNS entries for that entire second level domain you do not redirect it's sub-domains.
I can see doing this for nonexistant domains, but doing it for sub-domains is treading on very thin ice. When someone registers a domain they've been entitled to control over all the sub-domains and serving ads on their domain like this could very easily be argued as a major break of trademark law. It was a seriously braindead decision as suddenly it's no longer a victimless crime, and the victims may have the money to afford lawyers in this case.
To be honest I'd never suggest it with OpenOffice available in this day and age it just makes no sense. The value of Microsoft products in compatibility and when you can get a more compatible product for less money Works has no reason to exist except for widespread ignorance of the existence of OpenOffice.
Radon has this annoying tendency to emit alpha radiation. Alpha radiation does nasty things to any materials it contacts by embedding helium nuclei in their structure. That and it has a half life of less than 4 days so it's not really suitable for any sort of long term use, and if you're using an ion drive you've already chose to do things the long, efficient way.
And if it doesn't have Tachikomas there will be blood.