That's fine for converting current times but for comparing an historical time to the current time you need to know if there have been any timezone changes. That's what this whole thing is about.
To all the "clever" people that pointed out that UK, Japan and Germany do have polar bears in zoos and other enclosures I will clarify that my meaning was that UK, Japan and Germany do not have any NATIVE polar bears.
I thought based on the thread of the conversation that that point was implied but I forgot I was on Slashdot where people don't read summaries or the context of what they are responding to.
I clearly forgot to spell everything out like I was speaking to a five year old. My bad.
If the OP had presented the argument the way you did then I would have agreed.
Unfortunately overly simplistic, uninformed opinions repeated often enough seem to become fact. I was just injecting a bit of knowledge into the hyperbole.
Really? You think Americans created the concept of selling prepared Chinese food to take it home?
Now I'll concede that "American Chinese food" bares little resemblance to the food served in China but I'd be willing to bet that markets in China were selling prepared food before the pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock.
I don't understand why the concept is so difficult. There is a 100% effective way to prevent catching HIV. Don't have sex with someone who has it! Why is that so unrealistic?
Perhaps it's unrealistic because it's not true. For example,
I'm sure manufacturers added the ability to flash the BIOS from a Windows based utility because they were tired of having to explain to non-technical people how to create a boot disk especially now that the floppy has more or less disappeared. Of course you could boot from a USB drive but a bootable USB drive is more problematic than a boot floppy for non-techies.
A safer solution might be to have the BIOS read only with a writable update area where the update utility could save a compressed copy of the new BIOS. On reboot the BIOS, recognizing the presence of the update, could display the appropriate warnings and then ask the user if they want to install the update.
Of course it would still require that the user understand the risks but at least it would eliminate stealth updates of the BIOS.
Unfortunately Slashdot is populated by equal numbers of each extreme so no matter what you say there will be someone waiting to obnoxiously inform you of your error.
The cluster is listed as 120 PB not PiB so 1 PB = 10^15 not 2^50. One IBM punch card in binary mode can hold 2 bytes per column * 72 columns (columns 73 - 80 are not used), so 144 bytes per card.
So you would need 833,333,333,333,334 cards.
My question is, can you make a punch card RAID5 array?
If you mean the current generation of Soyuz hasn't lost any crew then you are correct but there were fatalities with the first generation. However, the last fatality was over 40 years and 100 launches ago so you are absolutely correct that the Russian program has a much better safety record than NASA.
I hate to defend Apple but from a consumer perspective the iPod/iPad/iPhone product lines are well made, the selection of apps in iTunes is quite extensive and their marketing is excellent.
Your explanation of a "large delusional crowd movement" that crosses cultural, economic and age boundaries seems a less likely explanation for Apple's success. The success of improved Android devices that have eroded Apple's share in the last couple of years further disproves your theory.
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That's fine for converting current times but for comparing an historical time to the current time you need to know if there have been any timezone changes. That's what this whole thing is about.
There you go bringing facts and logic into this.
Don't you know this is Slashdot? Where's your car analogy? Where is the blaming of Microsoft, anti-FOSS, patent trolls, etc.?
To all the "clever" people that pointed out that UK, Japan and Germany do have polar bears in zoos and other enclosures I will clarify that my meaning was that UK, Japan and Germany do not have any NATIVE polar bears.
I thought based on the thread of the conversation that that point was implied but I forgot I was on Slashdot where people don't read summaries or the context of what they are responding to.
I clearly forgot to spell everything out like I was speaking to a five year old. My bad.
There are no polar bears in the UK, Japan or Germany.
Q.E.D. robthebloke is too lazy to do a two second internet search.
If the OP had presented the argument the way you did then I would have agreed.
Unfortunately overly simplistic, uninformed opinions repeated often enough seem to become fact. I was just injecting a bit of knowledge into the hyperbole.
It's even worse if you have a Ru Paul sticker on your car.
Really? You think Americans created the concept of selling prepared Chinese food to take it home?
Now I'll concede that "American Chinese food" bares little resemblance to the food served in China but I'd be willing to bet that markets in China were selling prepared food before the pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock.
They keep the good stuff like the melamine "enhanced" baby formula.
I try to avoid any Chinese products because if they'll poison their own children with melamine what would they be willing to do to us.
I don't understand why the concept is so difficult. There is a 100% effective way to prevent catching HIV. Don't have sex with someone who has it! Why is that so unrealistic?
Perhaps it's unrealistic because it's not true. For example,
Contaminated haemophilia blood products
Blood transfusions
Transmission from mother to child
Needlestick injuries to health workers
It's also theoretically possible to get it from tattoos and piercings although no known cases have been documented.
4. Stop measuring your self worth by the size of your "friends list".
5. Get a life.
Put it on women's bras for the ultimate "touchscreen interface".
I'm sure manufacturers added the ability to flash the BIOS from a Windows based utility because they were tired of having to explain to non-technical people how to create a boot disk especially now that the floppy has more or less disappeared. Of course you could boot from a USB drive but a bootable USB drive is more problematic than a boot floppy for non-techies.
A safer solution might be to have the BIOS read only with a writable update area where the update utility could save a compressed copy of the new BIOS. On reboot the BIOS, recognizing the presence of the update, could display the appropriate warnings and then ask the user if they want to install the update.
Of course it would still require that the user understand the risks but at least it would eliminate stealth updates of the BIOS.
Unfortunately Slashdot is populated by equal numbers of each extreme so no matter what you say there will be someone waiting to obnoxiously inform you of your error.
My vote for best comment of the day.
If we don't get cancer then the terrorists win.
"Class M" is a fictional Star Trek term. I think what you meant to say is that there are no nearby planets in the habitable zone.
The cluster is listed as 120 PB not PiB so 1 PB = 10^15 not 2^50. One IBM punch card in binary mode can hold 2 bytes per column * 72 columns (columns 73 - 80 are not used), so 144 bytes per card.
So you would need 833,333,333,333,334 cards.
My question is, can you make a punch card RAID5 array?
Didn't you ever see "Debbie Does A Donkey Up Against A Ficus And Takes It In The Bungalow"?
How about ParisSucksCo.xxx?
Punch cards.
If you mean the current generation of Soyuz hasn't lost any crew then you are correct but there were fatalities with the first generation. However, the last fatality was over 40 years and 100 launches ago so you are absolutely correct that the Russian program has a much better safety record than NASA.
It's not advertising to us. It's just trying to increase it's page rank.
That's why even after modding it down they still accomplish what they set out to do.
I remember when Fiat meant Fix It Again Tony.
The only humans deaths in orbit were the crew of Soyuz 11 who died when their capsule decompressed after it separated from Salyut 1.
I don't think you understand Occam's Razor.
I hate to defend Apple but from a consumer perspective the iPod/iPad/iPhone product lines are well made, the selection of apps in iTunes is quite extensive and their marketing is excellent.
Your explanation of a "large delusional crowd movement" that crosses cultural, economic and age boundaries seems a less likely explanation for Apple's success. The success of improved Android devices that have eroded Apple's share in the last couple of years further disproves your theory.