I'm having some trouble - would you explain how tarballs help side-step the issue of the file system? I know you can split them to avoid the 4GB issue with FAT32, but I still have to use HFS+ on my external disk with the HD movies on: I don't want to have to extract something every time I want to watch it after all. If you have a set of tarballs on an ext3 volume then I don't see how that would help you read/write them on anything that doesn't support it. Obviously if you use *nix exclusively then this won't be a problem for you, or indeed anyone for whom the original question applies. I may have missed your point but I just don't understand how tarballs have anything to do with the choice of file system besides what I mentioned earlier about the limitations of FAT.
With a convenient holographic display to use any time you want to do something other than make a phone call, like we've been able to do since they invented text messaging.
By the same token couldn't you say the same about any solar/wind/geothermal/hydroelectric plant that makes use of oil-filled transformers or even plastics? In any case, is it still a fuel if it isn't being expended?
It's odd that you give those examples, I had a magsafe cord fail at the point where the cable enters and SE used to (giving them the benefit of doubt that they don't now) use soldered joints to attach connectors and worse still, volume sliders, to the PCB. I always had it drummed into me that solder is useless for attaching anything that might every carry a load, much less be put in a position to suffer fatigue.
What? It's not because we'd split into two camps: one that names things sensibly (read: boring), and another that gives everything a comic book gloss (read: juvenile)?
Frankly I'd be quite happy calling it by the IEEE designation.
I'm not familiar with it either but I imagine that it becomes harder to maintain a synchronous clock signal (moot for designs that don't use one, natch) when you increase the size. It would also increase the amount of time that any signal takes to travel from one end to the other.
As far as quantum goes, you're using individual or small groupings of atoms - that's just what size they are. The bulk of the machines I expect is made up of vacuum and cryogeny gear.
They determine the orbit by watching as the planet passes in front of the star. Somehow they determine which way the star spins and see the two are different. It doesn't matter if you see it from above or below.
Even if they had, the money may be worth less now, not enough to cover decommissioning costs. Personally, cynic that I am, I feel that this is just another case of the recession bogeyman being used as a catch-all excuse.
If you go in the other direction, the information itself is just a pattern of 1s and 0s and hence weighs nothing. Where do you propose we draw the line?
The question is not whether or not she downloaded the songs, it should be whether or not she did it with the intent of providing the same to others. I could support damages equal to the market value (plus reasonable punitive damages) of what she obtained iff (sic) she didn't upload anything but to suggest that this woman is even in the same league as someone who sells thousands of copied CDs is just silly. A common belief here is that the jury came down hard on her because she lied in court, but isn't perjury a criminal matter and shouldn't it have no bearing on the damages levied against her for a few dozen MP3s?
Hacker: Don't tell me about the press. I know exactly who reads the papers: the Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country; The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country; The Times is read by people who actually do run the country; the Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country; the Financial Times is read by people who own the country; The Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country; and The Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it already is.
Sir Humphrey: Prime Minister, what about the people who read The Sun?
Bernard: Sun readers don't care who runs the country, as long as she's got big tits.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGscoaUWW2M for those who'd like to see the original
I can honestly say I wouldn't. I became a civil servant because *gasp* I actually enjoy being of service to others. I heartily recommend it; the pay is decent and you get the Queen's birthday off.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm having some trouble - would you explain how tarballs help side-step the issue of the file system? I know you can split them to avoid the 4GB issue with FAT32, but I still have to use HFS+ on my external disk with the HD movies on: I don't want to have to extract something every time I want to watch it after all. If you have a set of tarballs on an ext3 volume then I don't see how that would help you read/write them on anything that doesn't support it. Obviously if you use *nix exclusively then this won't be a problem for you, or indeed anyone for whom the original question applies. I may have missed your point but I just don't understand how tarballs have anything to do with the choice of file system besides what I mentioned earlier about the limitations of FAT.
The point still stands whether 4 or 6 is more secret
Advert breaks tend to happen at the same time on most channels, you can't avoid them any more than billboards.
Would two words do? Impact armour.
With a convenient holographic display to use any time you want to do something other than make a phone call, like we've been able to do since they invented text messaging.
By the same token couldn't you say the same about any solar/wind/geothermal/hydroelectric plant that makes use of oil-filled transformers or even plastics? In any case, is it still a fuel if it isn't being expended?
It's odd that you give those examples, I had a magsafe cord fail at the point where the cable enters and SE used to (giving them the benefit of doubt that they don't now) use soldered joints to attach connectors and worse still, volume sliders, to the PCB. I always had it drummed into me that solder is useless for attaching anything that might every carry a load, much less be put in a position to suffer fatigue.
It wasn't Apple gear by any chance? I've had enough of their cables die on me to learn that the words "strain relief" don't exist in their lexicon.
Frankly I'd be quite happy calling it by the IEEE designation.
I'm not familiar with it either but I imagine that it becomes harder to maintain a synchronous clock signal (moot for designs that don't use one, natch) when you increase the size. It would also increase the amount of time that any signal takes to travel from one end to the other. As far as quantum goes, you're using individual or small groupings of atoms - that's just what size they are. The bulk of the machines I expect is made up of vacuum and cryogeny gear.
They determine the orbit by watching as the planet passes in front of the star. Somehow they determine which way the star spins and see the two are different. It doesn't matter if you see it from above or below.
Even if they had, the money may be worth less now, not enough to cover decommissioning costs. Personally, cynic that I am, I feel that this is just another case of the recession bogeyman being used as a catch-all excuse.
It might, but at least we can blame God!
You mean like the code you use on your luggage? Or the code you use at the ATM? Or the code for the alarm system in your home?
Or you could seal/partition the inside of the fuselage and pump the air out. At least then you might have something that can go faster than a balloon
If you go in the other direction, the information itself is just a pattern of 1s and 0s and hence weighs nothing. Where do you propose we draw the line?
Actually, a year is 9.4605284x10^12 kilometres, at least to anyone who isn't mired in laughably primitive notions of what space actually is.
Gibson's core idea in the novel is the direct integration of man and computer, with all the possibilities (and horrors) that such a union entails
It's been a few months since I read it but I remember the humans staying human all the way to the end.
Who's pretending? The only people I know who say butt are children and actors on pre-watershed US programs.
At least call them arses. You say butt over here and you'll just get laughed at (fanny will get you an altogether different response)
When you're sat browsing /.?
The UK does NOT have explicit freedom of speech. Neither does Germany. Don't think France does either.
5 words: European Convention of Human Rights. (Article ten, I think)
The question is not whether or not she downloaded the songs, it should be whether or not she did it with the intent of providing the same to others. I could support damages equal to the market value (plus reasonable punitive damages) of what she obtained iff (sic) she didn't upload anything but to suggest that this woman is even in the same league as someone who sells thousands of copied CDs is just silly. A common belief here is that the jury came down hard on her because she lied in court, but isn't perjury a criminal matter and shouldn't it have no bearing on the damages levied against her for a few dozen MP3s?
Hacker: Don't tell me about the press. I know exactly who reads the papers: the Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country; The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country; The Times is read by people who actually do run the country; the Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country; the Financial Times is read by people who own the country; The Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country; and The Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it already is.
Sir Humphrey: Prime Minister, what about the people who read The Sun?
Bernard: Sun readers don't care who runs the country, as long as she's got big tits.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGscoaUWW2M for those who'd like to see the original
I can honestly say I wouldn't. I became a civil servant because *gasp* I actually enjoy being of service to others. I heartily recommend it; the pay is decent and you get the Queen's birthday off.