Back in' day, Steam account names were the same as the email address you signed up with. I used an email account I had from about 15 years ago when the only email address I had was an ISP-proscribed one with my dial-up package. Neither the email account nor ISP still exist and while it's possible to change the email address the account is connected to, but I can't change my Steam username. Anachronism!
Simultaneously, Murdoch himself releases a statement calling for email service quality reform without realising he's contradicting his own company line.
Telling the difference between emails that have been deleted and those that haven't, along with those that have been sent and those that haven't, costs extra. Doing it any other way means Progressivism wins!
No, he said you need an infrastructure to distribute batteries.
I would contribute that the required quantity of water for any distance is not specified in the article - kinda makes it hard to judge how practical this is. Are we talking coke can or jerry can per 100mi?
Alternatively, you do the business at the wasp factory, walk on glass over the bridge down Espediar Street, cross the canal then head down Crow Road whistling a song of stone.
Completely agreed, my copy of UoW has been loaned to a few folks who thought the height of science fiction was the TV / video game spin-off novel - straightened them out but good! Ian, your boundless creativity will be sorely missed.
FTFY - "Most notably, someone upped the period of no warming that it would take for them to reconsider their models from 15 years (which was the new standard) to 30-40. Keep refining our scientific understanding based on observations!"
30-40 years is a pretty small pause when considered in context of the time scales we're dealing with here. By some staggering coincidence, it's also your IQ range.
Oh, I dunno. There are Americans and there are Merucans. Every country has it's delusional zealots, denialists, self-imposed ignorants. America is not unique in that aspect, we have similar folk in England. (Or Ing-ger-lernd!!! as they like to pronounce it)
Pointing the finger at under-achieving projects as evidence of some kind of peak is silly - under-publicity is more likely to be the cause there, especially for projects that get nothing at all. I seem to recall iTunes have a similar problem for a lot of it's artists, I can't find a link for it but a huge % of tracks on iTunes were reported at one time as having 0 purchases. IIRC it was something like a third. Looks like people are prematurely worrying this is a bubble, which is understandable considering the economic damage we've suffered over the past 15-20 years thanks to bubbles.
If the USA is so damn safe with so many guns tucked away for "self-defense", why is your murder rate per capita four times higher than the UK's?
You can dress it up in whatever flowery, biased, romanticised language you like, you can't hide the fact that Canada likes guns just as much as you do and have a far lower per capita murder rate at the same time. All your talk of freedom, tyranny, the founding fatheads and rights can't hide the fact that you're talking out of your arse, parroting someone else's line without even thinking about it.
There does seem to be some serious language bias. More concerning is the idea that merely using less US-produced coal domestically would change things - if you're producing it, you're going to sell it to someone who's going to burn it. I guess some lobbyists didn't like the idea of reducing the sum of coal dug up domestically and imported. You know, something that would actually make a difference.
Does anyone know whether the failure count for cells picks up along a nice smooth curve or is like running into a cliff? Intel seem to be suggesting in their spec sheets that the 20% over-provisioning on some of their SSDs (I'm assuming for bad-block remapping when failure is detected) can increase the expected write volume of a drive by substantial amounts:
This seems to go against the anecdotal evidence of sudden total SSD failures being attributed to cell wear - something else must be failing in those, most likely the normal expected allotment of mis-manufactured units.
No! No! It's not right! That's the common misconception, not what actually happened!
Anyone who thinks we always used 2^n in our definitions rather than 10^n is either too young to remember the really early days of computing or hasn't actually studied back that far - see somewhere else in this thread.
...and it's this exact denial of responsibility repeated loud enough for long enough that makes all us CS people act like Republicans whenever this subject comes up again. Why? See thread "Blame The Marketers".
While far from definitive, this would seem to suggest that the first reference equivocating 1k with 1024 with an article in 1964 by Gene Amdahl, followed by a similar assumption of equivalence in a 1965 article by MV Wilkes. I think it's safe to say these references pre-date those hard drives you mention.
This would suggest that computer science did originally adopt the standard definitions of kilo etc. but then started to deviate from them in the mid-60's for the sake of ease.
Why should they? It's not like enough of us are rushing to use those terms right now. The entire computer industry's historic dumb acceptance of an erroneously redefined numerical term makes it's our problem to fix, no-one else's.
Does anyone else remember a CS class when a lecturer papered over the cracks of this particular issue?
Slashdot Mirror
Back in' day, Steam account names were the same as the email address you signed up with. I used an email account I had from about 15 years ago when the only email address I had was an ISP-proscribed one with my dial-up package. Neither the email account nor ISP still exist and while it's possible to change the email address the account is connected to, but I can't change my Steam username. Anachronism!
Simultaneously, Murdoch himself releases a statement calling for email service quality reform without realising he's contradicting his own company line.
Telling the difference between emails that have been deleted and those that haven't, along with those that have been sent and those that haven't, costs extra. Doing it any other way means Progressivism wins!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_prefix - see section "Non metric units".
No, he said you need an infrastructure to distribute batteries.
I would contribute that the required quantity of water for any distance is not specified in the article - kinda makes it hard to judge how practical this is. Are we talking coke can or jerry can per 100mi?
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_prefix
Specifically, see the section entitled Non-Metric Units. It would appear it's uncommon but perfectly valid. Who woulda thunk it?
Didn't he once, a long time ago, mention something about saving the town by destroying it?
Now that's the kind of black humour Iain would appreciate. xD
Yeah, it's the sound of a pitiful at comedy falling flat on it's face. Even the tumbleweeds are looking at you like you're not funny.
Alternatively, you do the business at the wasp factory, walk on glass over the bridge down Espediar Street, cross the canal then head down Crow Road whistling a song of stone.
Completely agreed, my copy of UoW has been loaned to a few folks who thought the height of science fiction was the TV / video game spin-off novel - straightened them out but good! Ian, your boundless creativity will be sorely missed.
FTFY - "Most notably, someone upped the period of no warming that it would take for them to reconsider their models from 15 years (which was the new standard) to 30-40. Keep refining our scientific understanding based on observations!"
30-40 years is a pretty small pause when considered in context of the time scales we're dealing with here. By some staggering coincidence, it's also your IQ range.
Oh, I dunno. There are Americans and there are Merucans. Every country has it's delusional zealots, denialists, self-imposed ignorants. America is not unique in that aspect, we have similar folk in England. (Or Ing-ger-lernd!!! as they like to pronounce it)
Alive people don't remember those.
That many devs on one aircraft... makes on a plane.
Pointing the finger at under-achieving projects as evidence of some kind of peak is silly - under-publicity is more likely to be the cause there, especially for projects that get nothing at all. I seem to recall iTunes have a similar problem for a lot of it's artists, I can't find a link for it but a huge % of tracks on iTunes were reported at one time as having 0 purchases. IIRC it was something like a third. Looks like people are prematurely worrying this is a bubble, which is understandable considering the economic damage we've suffered over the past 15-20 years thanks to bubbles.
Speaking of lies:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate
USA: 4.8
UK: 1.2
Canada: 1.6
If the USA is so damn safe with so many guns tucked away for "self-defense", why is your murder rate per capita four times higher than the UK's?
You can dress it up in whatever flowery, biased, romanticised language you like, you can't hide the fact that Canada likes guns just as much as you do and have a far lower per capita murder rate at the same time. All your talk of freedom, tyranny, the founding fatheads and rights can't hide the fact that you're talking out of your arse, parroting someone else's line without even thinking about it.
You just did something that no-one else commenting on this has done - actually looked at the legislation everyone's knees are in a jerk about.
There does seem to be some serious language bias. More concerning is the idea that merely using less US-produced coal domestically would change things - if you're producing it, you're going to sell it to someone who's going to burn it. I guess some lobbyists didn't like the idea of reducing the sum of coal dug up domestically and imported. You know, something that would actually make a difference.
RTFA.
That is all.
Does anyone know whether the failure count for cells picks up along a nice smooth curve or is like running into a cliff? Intel seem to be suggesting in their spec sheets that the 20% over-provisioning on some of their SSDs (I'm assuming for bad-block remapping when failure is detected) can increase the expected write volume of a drive by substantial amounts:
http://www.intel.co.uk/content/www/us/en/solid-state-drives/solid-state-drives-710-series.html
This seems to go against the anecdotal evidence of sudden total SSD failures being attributed to cell wear - something else must be failing in those, most likely the normal expected allotment of mis-manufactured units.
No! No! It's not right! That's the common misconception, not what actually happened!
Anyone who thinks we always used 2^n in our definitions rather than 10^n is either too young to remember the really early days of computing or hasn't actually studied back that far - see somewhere else in this thread.
...and it's this exact denial of responsibility repeated loud enough for long enough that makes all us CS people act like Republicans whenever this subject comes up again. Why? See thread "Blame The Marketers".
I call tentatively BS on this explanation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_binary_prefixes
While far from definitive, this would seem to suggest that the first reference equivocating 1k with 1024 with an article in 1964 by Gene Amdahl, followed by a similar assumption of equivalence in a 1965 article by MV Wilkes. I think it's safe to say these references pre-date those hard drives you mention.
This would suggest that computer science did originally adopt the standard definitions of kilo etc. but then started to deviate from them in the mid-60's for the sake of ease.
Why should they? It's not like enough of us are rushing to use those terms right now. The entire computer industry's historic dumb acceptance of an erroneously redefined numerical term makes it's our problem to fix, no-one else's.
Does anyone else remember a CS class when a lecturer papered over the cracks of this particular issue?