First spec sheet I looked up from STMicro stated 1 million write cycles and 40 year retention. Second one from Microchip says a million as well. Third one from Atmel says a million cycles + 100 years retention.
But it's worth thinking about for a while to come up with a flash solution since even adding a $.10 IC adds up over millions of drives.
It's Mean Time Between Failure. Your example gives it as a hard number that none of the drives will survive past. There will be a statistical spread, but not like you describe it.
The actual spread depends on the shape of the failure distribution which isn't normally given. In a lot of cases, it's a Weibull curve which front-loads the failures and has a long tail. Even then though, you don't expect more than 60 to 70% of drives to have failed by the MTBF point.
You could also put a small EEPROM on the controller to store that information. A 128-bit EEPROM would probably be less than a dime in large quantity. A 1k-bit would cost just a penny or two more.
I'm not the person you're asking, but we used this text in ECE206 at NC State University. The LC-3 ISA is even reused in other classes. In the ECE406 Verilog class I took last year, our major project was to synthesize a simplified version of the LC-3 using Synopsys design tools.
Of course not, if they had taken the info they might have been legally obligated to get off their asses and do something about it. By refusing it they have plausible deniability.
If this became law, what prevents someone who is pregnant and wants an abortion from simply claiming she was raped by an unknown assailant?
This is the same sort of argument as the Republicans use against building in a 'for health reasons' clause into their anti-abortion legislation. They have no way of peaking into the private deliberations between a doctor and his patients without filing a court order.
When I was laptop shopping, I really wanted a subnote. I was on the verge of ordering one when I actually found a couple on display at CompUSA (Sony Vaio TR3). The keyboard was way too small for my hands. I'm 6'7" (2.0 meters) and I've got pretty good-size meathooks. There was way too much double-key pressing in trying to type at a halfway decent speed.
So, I stepped up a size category to the "thin and lights". Got a decked out T40, 80GB HDD, 1 Gig RAM, 802.11a/b/g/Bluetooth, 14.1" SXGA+ screen for the same price (~$1800). Weighs in maybe twice as much at ~5.5 lbs with batteries, but the full-sized keyboard is much easier to type on.
I still like the idea of the subnote, I really just wanted a notebook for portable Internet access and school assignments (light programming, little Maple). I would have been fine with quarter the RAM, quarter the HDD, 10" screen. And who needs a CD or floppy drive these days? Just copy images over the network and mount them if needed. But there was no way around the miniature keyboard issue for me.
Have you seen the TR3's? Closed, the dimensions are about that of two CD jewelcases laid end-to-end, albeit thicker. Built-in webcam, too. Beautiful piece of kit.
What does the fact that mutators only have limited power have to do with anything? Almost any mod is going to include new models/textures and therefore need a client-side install anyway. Why the focus on mutators?
Since the machine was ultimately going to be a Linux client on my local network, I had her do Windows 2000 first. I also suspected she'd bail early on Windows 2000 and fail to install it. Windows 2000 isn't easy to install.:) By rights, we should have done Windows XP, but I don't have Windows XP.
Yep, that's some high-grade journalism there! I'm sold!
It has 4 generic buttons right across the top below the mode switches and 7 mode switches. You can also cross-map volume, say from your stereo system, to overlap the volume controls when in Cable/Sat mode. There are also numerous buttons that a given mode would rarely use that you could map on top of like picture-in-picutre or surround mode or move.
BTW, After a bit of reading, I believe you can do 50+ custom mappings depending on the signals.
The Radio Shack 15-1994 remote can be had, on sale, for $30.00. If it doesn't have the code for a device, you can have it 'read' the signal from the remote for that device. It will hold up to 20 of those, I believe.
If you want more, you can build a serial-interface cable and upload new signatures into the main memory to leave more room for dynamic buttons and macros.
Their taste tests showed that most people preferred the lighter-roasted Chock Full o' Nuts French roast vs. the darker-roasted Starbucks French Roast in a blind taste test. Their claim is that the roasting process, when you're dealing with that level of dark roast, has more to do with the final product than the initial quality of the bean. When you have a dark roast, most of the flavor is from the roast vs. the bean, so the bean quality counts for less than the method and darkness of roasting amongst the various dark roasts. According to the Agtron scores (measurement of light passing through the coffee), the Starbucks French Roast (at 16.8) is actually an Italian roast while the Chock Full o' Nuts brand (at 31.0) is a Viennese Roast. French Roast is traditionally 20.0-30.0.
I think quoting the closing paragraph would count as 'fair use' as well as a good advertisement for the magazine (I highly recommend it, it's the Alton Brown of cooking magazines):
What is the best question to ask when selecting a French Roast coffee? Probably, "How do you like your coffee?" As Howell points out, if given French roast, the person who prefers light roast "will feel like he is walking into a dark room. It's all thickness and no clarity." Meanwhile, someone who favors dark roast but is given light roast "feels like he is being attack by the corrosive rays of the sun." So forget about beans, price, and country of origin and simply use the notes above (there are extensive tasting notes on each of the brands tested on this page) to help you choose the brand of French roast best suited to your palate.... Keep in mind that how you drink your coffee may also influence your choice. Black coffee drinkers may prefer a lighter roast, whereas those who add milk and sugar might find the darker roasts more appealing.
I had a friend who worked part-time at Home Depot. He told me a story from a couple of years back where a similar thing happened. A guy walks in with a Home Depot vest on, grabs a pallet jack from the back and loads up a pallet of generators. He walks right out the door with them saying he was picking them up for transfer to another store some miles away. Of course, they never saw them again...
In many parts of the country you will be poorly served by a public defender. This is a cut-and-paste from a blog comment talking about an NPR story on Friday:
Today, NPR covered the situation in Lousiana. In that state, public defenders are paid for by parishes. The money comes from (a portion of) fees collected from traffic violations. That's it. Though there is a minimal amount of state money sent to the parishes, it's done without regard to caseload or need. The sparse funds are then paid out to private firms, mostly through flat-fee contracts, where the firms agree to take on any and all cases for one fixed price.
The result would be hilarious, were it not so deadly serious. The average public defender there is saddled with over 600 felony cases a year. This includes capital murder cases. In the examples cited today, they covered an attorney who was given 11 minutes to prepare for a murder trial -- on a day when she had to deal with over twenty other cases. When the attorney complained, the judge gave her another hour to prepare, but refused to give her time to find or call experts for her client. Less than eight hours later, her client was sentenced to life behind bars. And that's not an extraordinary case. The attorney went on to the next of her 400+ active cases.
Louisiana is far from the only state in this kind of situation. In fact, flat-fee justice is spreading as state after state looks for a way to trim costs. After all, people don't call the state up and complain that defendants aren't get a fair trial. Heck no, people want blood. Louisiana, which can't find the funds to pay public defenders, finds more than 300% more to pay district attorneys -- this despite the fact that more than 80% of cases use a court appointed defense attorney. So, on average, each defense lawyer is carrying three times the case load, and facing a district attorney with three times as long to prepare.
Virginia, a state that pays all defense funds from the state, might look better on the surface, but Virginia uses flat fees in another way. Attorneys are paid for the type of case. For example, $395 for a class "B" felony. That rate doesn't change whether the client pleads guilty or innocent, and it's no different whether there's a plea agreement on the first day, or months of work leading up to a trial. So, where is the incentive for the lawyers? Plead everything. Fast.
Tell me you still think justice will be served with a public defender...
It's funny, because for me Occam's Razor would seem to suggest the simplest conclusion based on what we generally know to be possible (ie dead people don't come back to life). Otherwise the Razor would tell us things like "The dish was cleaned by a magical cleaning fairy while in the dishwasher" vs. the much-more complicated truth involving water pressure, heat and soap.
So then the argument becomes whether there is an non-supernatural explanation for the events you listed.
- His tomb never became a shrine. This seems to me to cut both ways. Why didn't it? Look! Jesus's tomb and it's empty! Wow, he really did rise from the dead! - Noone could produce the body. I'm taking your word here, but assuming that is true, what's wrong with the possibility that the tomb was robbed? Perhaps even by one or more of his followers in order that they might claim that he rose from the dead? - His followers were transformed. Maybe they were just eloquent scam-artists. Or maybe the majority of his followers genuinely believe based on the testimony of the few.
Also to say that the Bible has historical significance and that it contains certain historical facts does not automatically vet everything written therein. At best it gives the unprovable portions slightly more credibility than they might otherwise enjoy, but they're still unprovable.
Regardless, my own personal belief in Jesus would more revolve around his message than his actual personage. The important personage bits (like rising from the dead) can only be accepted by faith either way.
HR 2239 is a bill in a House committee right now that Slashdotters should get behind. Also known as the "Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act of 2003," this bill introduces, among others, two major provisions worthy of support.
The first is that every electronic voting machine shall leave behind a verified-by-the-voter paper receipt for recount purposes. This, of course, gives the voters an understandable avenue of recourse in the case of a suspect election.
The second is that all source code for running the machine shall be made available to the public. Not quite open-source, but, shall we say, viewable-source. This would allow security experts to check the code behind the voting-machine companies to make sure that it is secure.
Please check this website to see if your congresscritter is part of the Committee on House Administration and urge them to vote this bill out of committee. Even if they're not, showing support to your congressperson could lead to increased pressure on those in the committee to vote the bill out.
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Hell, that one's easy. Crichton's head contains the most valuable information in the galaxy: wormhole tech. And a reconstituted Aeryn is easier to use to manipulate him with.
Maybe the deconstitute/reconstitute thing is just how they transport their prisoners around...
Well, the social security deduction from my paycheck certainly *feels* like a tax...;)
As to cost/benefit, I promote (from a feelgood level no less, damned liberal that I am) a degree of income redistribution; the progressive tax, if you will. Those at the top of the income ladder draw greater benefit from publicly spent money (police, roads, corporate welfare) than those at the bottom and are much better able to withstand a larger tax burden.
In regards to the corporate income tax & capital gains tax, I must admit I'm not sure. I'm certainly not an economist, but I'm suspicious of neoconservative economists. I have read more than one account that said a majority of academic economists disagree with a lot of the presuppositions and conclusions that the neocon supply-side economists draw.
This admonishment from The Economist also seems appropriate: "However, if capital gains are given too friendly a treatment by the tax authorities, accountants will no doubt invent all sorts of creative ways to disguise other income as capital gains." Just saying that this sort of thing needs to be given careful consideration.
I can also understand the idea that abolishing corporate income tax could do away with some bureaucracy, but the argument that corporations simply pass along these taxes to consumers rings hollow, especially for the service/software sectors. A company will charge what the market will bear for a product, the fact that they no longer have to pay income tax may create some jobs, but its doubtful the savings would be passed along to the consumer. Even the most adament of supporters for this idea admit that it would require personal income tax to rise. The only way that I could even be neutral towards it would be if the incipient personal tax increase was signficantly progressively slanted.
There's also the problem, that I haven't thought on too extensively, of people forming 'S Corporations' of their businesses to shelter their income from taxation.
I know you're trying to make a point, but your numbers are misleading. First of all, the top 10% of wage-earners pay about 67% of the total federal income tax. Also, without stating the top 10%'s income as a percentage of total income earned, the figure is misleading. The top 10% of wage-earners earn 40% of all income.
If you take a step back and look at overall economic income (not just cash income), the top 10% has 40.5% of the pie. Likewise, if you look at the total federal tax (not just income tax) paid by the top 10%, it's only 48.5% of the total collected.
These figures were from 2000 so I'm sure they've actually gone more in favor towards that top 10% given Bush's tax cuts.
Check here for more on the lower quintiles and their respective percentages.
What are you on about? If Clinton had done the things for which he was being investigated then where was the proof after 3 years and 40 million dollars? The only thing the Starr Report documented was the Lewinsky matter and Clinton's conduct regarding it while under oath. This was not the 'things' that the Independant Council was initially investigating.
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First spec sheet I looked up from STMicro stated 1 million write cycles and 40 year retention. Second one from Microchip says a million as well. Third one from Atmel says a million cycles + 100 years retention.
But it's worth thinking about for a while to come up with a flash solution since even adding a $.10 IC adds up over millions of drives.
It's Mean Time Between Failure. Your example gives it as a hard number that none of the drives will survive past. There will be a statistical spread, but not like you describe it.
The actual spread depends on the shape of the failure distribution which isn't normally given. In a lot of cases, it's a Weibull curve which front-loads the failures and has a long tail. Even then though, you don't expect more than 60 to 70% of drives to have failed by the MTBF point.
You could also put a small EEPROM on the controller to store that information. A 128-bit EEPROM would probably be less than a dime in large quantity. A 1k-bit would cost just a penny or two more.
I'm not the person you're asking, but we used this text in ECE206 at NC State University. The LC-3 ISA is even reused in other classes. In the ECE406 Verilog class I took last year, our major project was to synthesize a simplified version of the LC-3 using Synopsys design tools.
Of course not, if they had taken the info they might have been legally obligated to get off their asses and do something about it. By refusing it they have plausible deniability.
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Mmmmmmm.... plausible deniability
Heh, I said it was the sort of argument they used, intentionally leaving aside their real motivations ... :)
If this became law, what prevents someone who is pregnant and wants an abortion from simply claiming she was raped by an unknown assailant?
This is the same sort of argument as the Republicans use against building in a 'for health reasons' clause into their anti-abortion legislation. They have no way of peaking into the private deliberations between a doctor and his patients without filing a court order.
So how do you plan to stop buying when you haven't started?
When I was laptop shopping, I really wanted a subnote. I was on the verge of ordering one when I actually found a couple on display at CompUSA (Sony Vaio TR3). The keyboard was way too small for my hands. I'm 6'7" (2.0 meters) and I've got pretty good-size meathooks. There was way too much double-key pressing in trying to type at a halfway decent speed.
So, I stepped up a size category to the "thin and lights". Got a decked out T40, 80GB HDD, 1 Gig RAM, 802.11a/b/g/Bluetooth, 14.1" SXGA+ screen for the same price (~$1800). Weighs in maybe twice as much at ~5.5 lbs with batteries, but the full-sized keyboard is much easier to type on.
I still like the idea of the subnote, I really just wanted a notebook for portable Internet access and school assignments (light programming, little Maple). I would have been fine with quarter the RAM, quarter the HDD, 10" screen. And who needs a CD or floppy drive these days? Just copy images over the network and mount them if needed. But there was no way around the miniature keyboard issue for me.
Have you seen the TR3's? Closed, the dimensions are about that of two CD jewelcases laid end-to-end, albeit thicker. Built-in webcam, too. Beautiful piece of kit.
What does the fact that mutators only have limited power have to do with anything?
Almost any mod is going to include new models/textures and therefore need a client-side install anyway. Why the focus on mutators?
It has 4 generic buttons right across the top below the mode switches and 7 mode switches. You can also cross-map volume, say from your stereo system, to overlap the volume controls when in Cable/Sat mode. There are also numerous buttons that a given mode would rarely use that you could map on top of like picture-in-picutre or surround mode or move.
BTW, After a bit of reading, I believe you can do 50+ custom mappings depending on the signals.
The Radio Shack 15-1994 remote can be had, on sale, for $30.00. If it doesn't have the code for a device, you can have it 'read' the signal from the remote for that device. It will hold up to 20 of those, I believe.
If you want more, you can build a serial-interface cable and upload new signatures into the main memory to leave more room for dynamic buttons and macros.
I've heard it makes your car exhaust smell like french fries ... Not that there's anything wrong with that ...
According to the Agtron scores (measurement of light passing through the coffee), the Starbucks French Roast (at 16.8) is actually an Italian roast while the Chock Full o' Nuts brand (at 31.0) is a Viennese Roast. French Roast is traditionally 20.0-30.0.
I think quoting the closing paragraph would count as 'fair use' as well as a good advertisement for the magazine (I highly recommend it, it's the Alton Brown of cooking magazines):
They didn't use those words, they quoted Kevin Knox of Allegro coffee talking about French roast in general. He said, "It's just burnt coffee."
I had a friend who worked part-time at Home Depot. He told me a story from a couple of years back where a similar thing happened. A guy walks in with a Home Depot vest on, grabs a pallet jack from the back and loads up a pallet of generators. He walks right out the door with them saying he was picking them up for transfer to another store some miles away. Of course, they never saw them again...
Tell me you still think justice will be served with a public defender
It's funny, because for me Occam's Razor would seem to suggest the simplest conclusion based on what we generally know to be possible (ie dead people don't come back to life). Otherwise the Razor would tell us things like "The dish was cleaned by a magical cleaning fairy while in the dishwasher" vs. the much-more complicated truth involving water pressure, heat and soap.
So then the argument becomes whether there is an non-supernatural explanation for the events you listed.
- His tomb never became a shrine.
This seems to me to cut both ways. Why didn't it? Look! Jesus's tomb and it's empty! Wow, he really did rise from the dead!
- Noone could produce the body.
I'm taking your word here, but assuming that is true, what's wrong with the possibility that the tomb was robbed? Perhaps even by one or more of his followers in order that they might claim that he rose from the dead?
- His followers were transformed.
Maybe they were just eloquent scam-artists. Or maybe the majority of his followers genuinely believe based on the testimony of the few.
Also to say that the Bible has historical significance and that it contains certain historical facts does not automatically vet everything written therein. At best it gives the unprovable portions slightly more credibility than they might otherwise enjoy, but they're still unprovable.
Regardless, my own personal belief in Jesus would more revolve around his message than his actual personage. The important personage bits (like rising from the dead) can only be accepted by faith either way.
HR 2239 is a bill in a House committee right now that Slashdotters should get behind. Also known as the "Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act of 2003," this bill introduces, among others, two major provisions worthy of support.
The first is that every electronic voting machine shall leave behind a verified-by-the-voter paper receipt for recount purposes. This, of course, gives the voters an understandable avenue of recourse in the case of a suspect election.
The second is that all source code for running the machine shall be made available to the public. Not quite open-source, but, shall we say, viewable-source. This would allow security experts to check the code behind the voting-machine companies to make sure that it is secure.
Please check this website to see if your congresscritter is part of the Committee on House Administration and urge them to vote this bill out of committee. Even if they're not, showing support to your congressperson could lead to increased pressure on those in the committee to vote the bill out.
Hell, that one's easy. Crichton's head contains the most valuable information in the galaxy: wormhole tech. And a reconstituted Aeryn is easier to use to manipulate him with.
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Maybe the deconstitute/reconstitute thing is just how they transport their prisoners around
Well, the social security deduction from my paycheck certainly *feels* like a tax ... ;)
As to cost/benefit, I promote (from a feelgood level no less, damned liberal that I am) a degree of income redistribution; the progressive tax, if you will. Those at the top of the income ladder draw greater benefit from publicly spent money (police, roads, corporate welfare) than those at the bottom and are much better able to withstand a larger tax burden.
In regards to the corporate income tax & capital gains tax, I must admit I'm not sure. I'm certainly not an economist, but I'm suspicious of neoconservative economists. I have read more than one account that said a majority of academic economists disagree with a lot of the presuppositions and conclusions that the neocon supply-side economists draw.
This admonishment from The Economist also seems appropriate:
"However, if capital gains are given too friendly a treatment by the tax authorities, accountants will no doubt invent all sorts of creative ways to disguise other income as capital gains."
Just saying that this sort of thing needs to be given careful consideration.
I can also understand the idea that abolishing corporate income tax could do away with some bureaucracy, but the argument that corporations simply pass along these taxes to consumers rings hollow, especially for the service/software sectors. A company will charge what the market will bear for a product, the fact that they no longer have to pay income tax may create some jobs, but its doubtful the savings would be passed along to the consumer. Even the most adament of supporters for this idea admit that it would require personal income tax to rise. The only way that I could even be neutral towards it would be if the incipient personal tax increase was signficantly progressively slanted.
There's also the problem, that I haven't thought on too extensively, of people forming 'S Corporations' of their businesses to shelter their income from taxation.
I know you're trying to make a point, but your numbers are misleading. First of all, the top 10% of wage-earners pay about 67% of the total federal income tax. Also, without stating the top 10%'s income as a percentage of total income earned, the figure is misleading. The top 10% of wage-earners earn 40% of all income.
If you take a step back and look at overall economic income (not just cash income), the top 10% has 40.5% of the pie. Likewise, if you look at the total federal tax (not just income tax) paid by the top 10%, it's only 48.5% of the total collected.
These figures were from 2000 so I'm sure they've actually gone more in favor towards that top 10% given Bush's tax cuts.
Check here for more on the lower quintiles and their respective percentages.
That's all well and good, but that's not what you said.
Would you limit the "finest quisine on the US mainland" to strictly "American" foods?
What are you on about? If Clinton had done the things for which he was being investigated then where was the proof after 3 years and 40 million dollars?
The only thing the Starr Report documented was the Lewinsky matter and Clinton's conduct regarding it while under oath. This was not the 'things' that the Independant Council was initially investigating.