After extensive testing to find a durable DVD-RW I can honestly say that none of the ones I tested was completely readable after two years in storage. All had defects to some extend. Most surprising find was that there was no correlation between price and low error count. At all.
If you have experience with a brand that lasts for a lot longer I'd really appreciate to hear about it.
I'm sure nobody will call you on this one. It's obvious C has a lot of drawbacks compared to more modern languages. But for raw performance there isn't much that can keep up.
I'm even willing to up the ante by saying that the solution in C will be at least twice as fast as the other competitor. And that is a conservative estimate.
He probably couldn't get the supernova to explode on time to provide decent fill-in light. And then there is the matter that the Canon 5D doesn't have exposure setting for one-trillionth of a second.
Not yet, but they are working on it. They tried to snuck it through by hiding it in the amendments of an agricultural bill. Luckily Poland kept watch and rose a stink about it.
It's not over. There is too much money to be gained for that.
Al-Jabr is the Arab mathematician who discovered (or invented, whichever way you lean on that topic) algebra.
You are mistaken. Muhammad ibn Musa Khwarizmi wrote (or rather translated from Indian texts) his book al-Kitab al-mukhtasar fi hisab al-jabr wa'l-muqabala. From the title of this book we still got the word "algebra".
Also, the oft heard claim that the West uses Arabic numerals is incorrect. These numerals also came from India.
You do know that the torrent files don't contain the copyrighted content, right?
If I give away a text file saying "the classified material is in the top left drawer of Mayor Smiths desk" or "the creditcard numbers can be found in locker number 30 at the YMCA", does that make me a criminal?
And, in this very case, does it make me guilty of copyright infringement? I didn't infringe.
If you had followed the trial, you might know that it was established in court that 80% of the torrents on TPB link to content that you can legally download. But you don't care, because it doesn't fit in your hidden agenda.
No the real bummer is that so many people like you think that they are not criminals. Last time I checked, its illegal to take something that is not yours and you didn't pay for.
You make a copy. You don't take something.
And it has been that way for thousands of years.
No, it isn't. You could copy the Mona Lisa until you're green in the face, no problem.
You fully well know what they are trying to accomplish with their site. Don't pretend like its something its not.
They are providing torrent files. Plain text files. On which no copyright lies, or at least nobody minds that they copy those.
It is for encouraging piracy plain and simple.
Piracy happens in the coastal waters of Somalia. What you mean is called "copyright infringement".
In my experience missing documentation on mission-critical systems is the number one reason it gets left well alone. Nobody wants to be the guy that broke the system, taking the whole company down with it.
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Cocaine is better for your health than a case of Red Bull anyways.
After extensive testing to find a durable DVD-RW I can honestly say that none of the ones I tested was completely readable after two years in storage. All had defects to some extend. Most surprising find was that there was no correlation between price and low error count. At all.
If you have experience with a brand that lasts for a lot longer I'd really appreciate to hear about it.
Why not? You can saturate any commercial network link with a 100 MHz Pentium machine easily.
If you do some heavy scripting on the machine, it might cave a bit. But if your quad-core machine doesn't hold up, then indeed You're Doing It Wrong.
I'm sure nobody will call you on this one. It's obvious C has a lot of drawbacks compared to more modern languages. But for raw performance there isn't much that can keep up. I'm even willing to up the ante by saying that the solution in C will be at least twice as fast as the other competitor. And that is a conservative estimate.
It brings the 'P' to the ISS...
He probably couldn't get the supernova to explode on time to provide decent fill-in light. And then there is the matter that the Canon 5D doesn't have exposure setting for one-trillionth of a second.
Also, you can't patent software in Europe
Not yet, but they are working on it. They tried to snuck it through by hiding it in the amendments of an agricultural bill. Luckily Poland kept watch and rose a stink about it.
It's not over. There is too much money to be gained for that.
Cool! Thanks!
And why did those crusades start? Not because the middle east was such a warm and welcomy paradise, for sure.
Oh, by the way, he wasn't Arab either. He was Persian and therefore Zoroastrian, not Muslim.
Al-Jabr is the Arab mathematician who discovered (or invented, whichever way you lean on that topic) algebra.
You are mistaken. Muhammad ibn Musa Khwarizmi wrote (or rather translated from Indian texts) his book al-Kitab al-mukhtasar fi hisab al-jabr wa'l-muqabala. From the title of this book we still got the word "algebra".
Also, the oft heard claim that the West uses Arabic numerals is incorrect. These numerals also came from India.
Can't believe some third party didn't take over production of these excellent chips.
They are still available (new old stock) but prices are rising steadily.
If that works for you, sure, why not?
True. But typography has a strong bond with language. Which was what we were discussing here.
You do know that the torrent files don't contain the copyrighted content, right?
If I give away a text file saying "the classified material is in the top left drawer of Mayor Smiths desk" or "the creditcard numbers can be found in locker number 30 at the YMCA", does that make me a criminal?
And, in this very case, does it make me guilty of copyright infringement? I didn't infringe.
I don't want stuff for free. I don't need to get it for free.
There is a lot of material that isn't even in print anymore. Nobody can be arsed to print it, even when there is still demand for it.
You might argue that the publisher has the right to withhold the material from the public. I don't think that is ethical.
It is not about the money. It's about culture. If you can't see that, you have a very shallow mind. Or you're an industry shill, perhaps.
If you had followed the trial, you might know that it was established in court that 80% of the torrents on TPB link to content that you can legally download. But you don't care, because it doesn't fit in your hidden agenda.
The point was that you could copy the Mona Lisa when it was freshly painted. Nobody cared.
And don't pretend that giving access to plain textfiles is somehow illegal.
So it can all be solved by renaming it to "The Non-Pirate Bay"? Of course not.
The ethical question is quite easy. Long term copyright is not in the best interest of the people. Therefore it is unethical.
To hit the bastards where it hurts, you don't need to download. Just don't buy anything from them.
I'll never, ever, buy anything that is connected to the big media conglomerates.
In the immortal words of the Futuristic Sex Robotz... (nsfw is your boss is a prick)
No the real bummer is that so many people like you think that they are not criminals. Last time I checked, its illegal to take something that is not yours and you didn't pay for.
You make a copy. You don't take something.
And it has been that way for thousands of years.
No, it isn't. You could copy the Mona Lisa until you're green in the face, no problem.
You fully well know what they are trying to accomplish with their site. Don't pretend like its something its not.
They are providing torrent files. Plain text files. On which no copyright lies, or at least nobody minds that they copy those.
It is for encouraging piracy plain and simple.
Piracy happens in the coastal waters of Somalia. What you mean is called "copyright infringement".
Almost anything would be better than a stack of floppies. Get the guy two usb harddrives and get it over with. No need to over-engineer the solution.
Hang him, I'd say.
In my experience missing documentation on mission-critical systems is the number one reason it gets left well alone. Nobody wants to be the guy that broke the system, taking the whole company down with it.
If you're game for an experiment, please send a few greetingcards from a few e-card sites.
That seems to do the trick for me, within a few days the spam avalanche commences.