but my files are still made of bytes. it's academic, i know, but it's base-2 all the way. isn't a byte 2^3 bits? if we want to start counting everything in base-10, why not doing it for real? just cease counting everything in powers of 2. redefine the byte as 10 bits. it's a shortcut as well: no more confusion between bits and bytes and kilo and kibi.
btw nobody gives a crap about how their RAM is measured either, as long as it's enough to run their favourite shoot-em-all.
alright. we already have a double standard. i just wonder how many people know the difference between a KB and a KiB. also, if, say, nautilus gives you a figure and df gives you another, all the discussion on standards is put aside by the "this-crap-isn't-even-able-to-tell-how-much-space-is-left" effect.
so we have a disk which size is expressed in base-10 while the files it contains are sized in base-2? then why not listing the numbers of files in directories in hex... just for the hell of it.
if it is so, it's the wrong move. there is no such thing as a power of 2 which equals 1000. the base-10 measurement have little meaning in a computer.
if you are saying that we're using the wrong word for the right thing, or something like that, then the issue is very different: we have to convince however many people to start calling them "somethingelsebytes" instead of "kilo"bytes.
you may say that most people just want to know how much space is left on a disk for por... ehm, their documents. but then you would have a double standard -- common people unit and geek unit. i don't think it would be a good thing.
"It looks like both Apple and Ubuntu are trying to get consumers to think that they use less disk space."
so they'll need less time to be amazed by full disk warnings popping up.
it looks to me like both apple and ubuntu are just giving up. those who know how big a MB actually is will continue knowing, and will quickly (and eagerly) find the ways to make their computers show sizes correclty. the others just don't care, so who minds anyway.
besides, those who just can't stand seeing a MB represented as 1000 KBs will just drop ubuntu for some other distro, if they ever did use ubuntu that is.
most people would try and print more copies of it just because "there must be something wrong with the printer" and finally file a printer maintenance request to sysadmin. on paper. in triplicate.
Also, their marketing director said "philosophically, we've been very aggressive about mobile broadband." Besides being "philosophically aggressive"... will it be able to make coffee as well?
...if you do want to _read_ something, and to go beyond your knowledge of Java as a language, try Grady Booch's "Object-oriented analysis and design". Not very new, but very useful, and language-independent, too. (Did somebody else mention it? Too lazy to go through all comments...)
http://www.librarything.com/work/174920/details
You mean if I steal a CD from a shop I deserve the same punishment as if I go to somebody's house and take all his money? Both things are illegal, and both are wrong, but no way they are the same thing. It's not cultural attitude. It's there are different degrees of "wrong" and of "illegal".
I take the point people will be likely to defend the illegal things they do themselves, but you cannot mix everything into one big bowl and just call it "cereal". ...oh, wait.
Not remembering _one_ password - or how to cut/paste - is not related to being computer friendly. It is really related to how one values his/her work. If I just give a heck about my job I should at least be able to bother remembering one word, complicated as it may be, or one single operation, especially if I have to use either every frigging day. I know all of us have knowledge holes - we tend to instantly and unrecoverably forget anything related to the things we like less. But there are limits. Or there ought to be.
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Yesterday.
The real news here is, they voted him out 20-19. What were they thinking? I mean, the other 19.
This would explain an awful lot of things.
but my files are still made of bytes. it's academic, i know, but it's base-2 all the way. isn't a byte 2^3 bits? if we want to start counting everything in base-10, why not doing it for real? just cease counting everything in powers of 2. redefine the byte as 10 bits. it's a shortcut as well: no more confusion between bits and bytes and kilo and kibi. btw nobody gives a crap about how their RAM is measured either, as long as it's enough to run their favourite shoot-em-all.
one trillion! or maybe even MORE! man, that's HUGE!
alright. we already have a double standard. i just wonder how many people know the difference between a KB and a KiB. also, if, say, nautilus gives you a figure and df gives you another, all the discussion on standards is put aside by the "this-crap-isn't-even-able-to-tell-how-much-space-is-left" effect.
so we have a disk which size is expressed in base-10 while the files it contains are sized in base-2? then why not listing the numbers of files in directories in hex... just for the hell of it.
if it is so, it's the wrong move. there is no such thing as a power of 2 which equals 1000. the base-10 measurement have little meaning in a computer. if you are saying that we're using the wrong word for the right thing, or something like that, then the issue is very different: we have to convince however many people to start calling them "somethingelsebytes" instead of "kilo"bytes. you may say that most people just want to know how much space is left on a disk for por... ehm, their documents. but then you would have a double standard -- common people unit and geek unit. i don't think it would be a good thing.
"It looks like both Apple and Ubuntu are trying to get consumers to think that they use less disk space." so they'll need less time to be amazed by full disk warnings popping up. it looks to me like both apple and ubuntu are just giving up. those who know how big a MB actually is will continue knowing, and will quickly (and eagerly) find the ways to make their computers show sizes correclty. the others just don't care, so who minds anyway. besides, those who just can't stand seeing a MB represented as 1000 KBs will just drop ubuntu for some other distro, if they ever did use ubuntu that is.
sorry: "physically".
not for "phisically marking up an online document".
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most people would try and print more copies of it just because "there must be something wrong with the printer" and finally file a printer maintenance request to sysadmin. on paper. in triplicate.
why not NOT printing everything? it saves up to 100% ink. or toner at that.
you mean, like google docs and a netbook?
the very fact that these people know what to do beforehand is proof that app security is generally terrible.
Also, their marketing director said "philosophically, we've been very aggressive about mobile broadband." Besides being "philosophically aggressive"... will it be able to make coffee as well?
A WOFF font is a font that barks at you while you type. The heap corruption exploit causes it to mess with "local business search" on your smartphone.
it is.
...if you do want to _read_ something, and to go beyond your knowledge of Java as a language, try Grady Booch's "Object-oriented analysis and design". Not very new, but very useful, and language-independent, too. (Did somebody else mention it? Too lazy to go through all comments...) http://www.librarything.com/work/174920/details
I use Meld locally for backups, but for multiple machine syncing/backup I am considering trying Bacula. Anybody already uses it?
This man deserves a Nobel.
You mean if I steal a CD from a shop I deserve the same punishment as if I go to somebody's house and take all his money? Both things are illegal, and both are wrong, but no way they are the same thing. It's not cultural attitude. It's there are different degrees of "wrong" and of "illegal".
...oh, wait.
I take the point people will be likely to defend the illegal things they do themselves, but you cannot mix everything into one big bowl and just call it "cereal".
It is a plot by online magazines to keep the feed of horror stories alive.
Not remembering _one_ password - or how to cut/paste - is not related to being computer friendly. It is really related to how one values his/her work. If I just give a heck about my job I should at least be able to bother remembering one word, complicated as it may be, or one single operation, especially if I have to use either every frigging day.
I know all of us have knowledge holes - we tend to instantly and unrecoverably forget anything related to the things we like less. But there are limits. Or there ought to be.