The real capacity, or actually, even less than it.
SSD drives need spare space to work. So if you buy a 128G drive, it's actually got 128G of flash, unlike say a hard drive that would be more like 119G. But the SSD will advertise 119G too The spare space is used for garbage collection. Some vendors reserve even more, as this makes the work of the firmware easier. You can see it in the article.
Now, if you can compress your data, that means only half the work has to be done writing and reading it. This makes the drive faster. Having to write less data also means there are less write cycles, and even more reserve room that can be used for garbage collection.
So instead of using the compression to advertise space that isn't there, it's used, where possible, to increase the lifetime of the drives.
Given the quality of current SSD drives, it may be a moot point; the firmware will eat your data with a driver bug faster than the flash will die.
It's got a SATA-600 interface, the same Marvell controller like the Crucial m4, but it's significantly faster overall. Should be more competitive with the OCZ offerings, and it's 5 times less likely to eat your data.
They were already allowed back in a while ago. While they are clearly based on reverse engineering Rybka code, that in itself isn't illegal. I'd be nice if they acknowledged their source, but not doing that also isn't illegal (as long as you don't play the WCCC, like Rybka did!).
What you say is completely disconnected from what actually happened. The conviction didn't happen by observing the engine, the conviction happened because the panel reverse engineered the binary exacutable and found a huge similarity, including exactly identical implementations of non-obvious functions, identical bugs and identical dead code in the commercial engine and the opens source engines.
The panel was made up of every computer chess expert the organization could get their hands on, which of course included competitors.
But if he wanted to avoid those, he could have proposed to send his source to a neural subselection.
He didn't reply at all. What could he say? The full reports are posted, and they're completely damning. I guess the writer of the article linked here didn't manage to understand that.
Houdini is based on another open-source engine (Ippolit / RobboLito), which are based on reverse engineering Rybka, which is, well, see the original statement (the article is hopelessly biased and gets some facts wrong).
Your last criteria would rule out pretty much any language in existence.
I really fail to see why Python's whitespace quirks have any bearing on the suitability of the language to learn programming. The principles and reasoning you have to learn aren't affected by whitespace at all. A generation of programmers was brought up (just (well (in (Scheme)))) for crying out loud.
I actually still have the first BASIC programs I wrote when I learned programming, and it's very clear to me that enforcing and explaining what indentation is would have made me a better programmer faster.
The GUI for the mobile versions are completely different from the desktop version. The desktop version changes target more usable vertical screen space, because 16:9 widescreens are completely overtaking 16:10 on desktops and laptops. This completely doesn't apply to phones, who have the screen oriented the other way around.
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Sure, in-between restoring the backups you might be able to get some work done :P If the backup disk hasn't failed, too.
The real capacity, or actually, even less than it.
SSD drives need spare space to work. So if you buy a 128G drive, it's actually got 128G of flash, unlike say a hard drive that would be more like 119G. But the SSD will advertise 119G too The spare space is used for garbage collection. Some vendors reserve even more, as this makes the work of the firmware easier. You can see it in the article.
Now, if you can compress your data, that means only half the work has to be done writing and reading it. This makes the drive faster. Having to write less data also means there are less write cycles, and even more reserve room that can be used for garbage collection.
So instead of using the compression to advertise space that isn't there, it's used, where possible, to increase the lifetime of the drives.
Given the quality of current SSD drives, it may be a moot point; the firmware will eat your data with a driver bug faster than the flash will die.
It's got a SATA-600 interface, the same Marvell controller like the Crucial m4, but it's significantly faster overall. Should be more competitive with the OCZ offerings, and it's 5 times less likely to eat your data.
Sure, but a 3% return rate is still FIVE times as much as 0.6%.
We're talking about storage here: data loss. Such numbers are NOT acceptable. How people still dare touch these drives is beyond me.
Neither are related to WebGL specifically. They're used for much more mundane things such as Canvas rendering.
They were already allowed back in a while ago. While they are clearly based on reverse engineering Rybka code, that in itself isn't illegal. I'd be nice if they acknowledged their source, but not doing that also isn't illegal (as long as you don't play the WCCC, like Rybka did!).
Does that run on the operating system that everybody is actually using? No.
Show me the code.
Feel free to ask Rajlich.
Did you read the original statement from the ICGA? The one including the analysis?
Oh right, this is /.
Nevermind.
I'm not saying it is. I'm giving credit where credit is due.
If you have font issues, please note Microsoft just released a hotfix that improves font rendering:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2545698
You might also want to look at:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=667989
So it sounds to me like he is in compliance with the requirements of the authors.
One of the programs is GPL-ed. The other doesn't allow it to be entered in competitions without permission.
Fail on both.
What you say is completely disconnected from what actually happened. The conviction didn't happen by observing the engine, the conviction happened because the panel reverse engineered the binary exacutable and found a huge similarity, including exactly identical implementations of non-obvious functions, identical bugs and identical dead code in the commercial engine and the opens source engines.
The panel was made up of every computer chess expert the organization could get their hands on, which of course included competitors.
But if he wanted to avoid those, he could have proposed to send his source to a neural subselection.
He didn't reply at all. What could he say? The full reports are posted, and they're completely damning. I guess the writer of the article linked here didn't manage to understand that.
Reverse engineering.
Houdini is based on another open-source engine (Ippolit / RobboLito), which are based on reverse engineering Rybka, which is, well, see the original statement (the article is hopelessly biased and gets some facts wrong).
It's a mess.
Screw up some memory management in C or C++ and your OS will crash.
Unless you're a kernel hacker or running Windows ME, that's just nonsense.
Your last criteria would rule out pretty much any language in existence.
I really fail to see why Python's whitespace quirks have any bearing on the suitability of the language to learn programming. The principles and reasoning you have to learn aren't affected by whitespace at all. A generation of programmers was brought up (just (well (in (Scheme)))) for crying out loud.
I actually still have the first BASIC programs I wrote when I learned programming, and it's very clear to me that enforcing and explaining what indentation is would have made me a better programmer faster.
There's a separate Firefox Sync app. But that's not the full browser, obviously.
WP7 doesn't allow native development. That will stop many alternatives.
What parts did you find user-unfriendly?
(No arguing about the speed, but as the other poster said, it's worthwhile checking the betas/nightlies. It's under pretty heavy development).
The GUI for the mobile versions are completely different from the desktop version. The desktop version changes target more usable vertical screen space, because 16:9 widescreens are completely overtaking 16:10 on desktops and laptops. This completely doesn't apply to phones, who have the screen oriented the other way around.
So, this is a pretty strange reasoning.
Other countries, specifically developed ones who are "allies" of the US, probably do exactly the same.
Government is "fire first, respect the law later" pretty much everywhere.
The amount of bugs is a function of the amount of changes and the amount of time spent testing them.
Unsurprisingly, there are less new features than in FF3.6->FF4.
Did you actually try FF5?
Most of the changes are under the hood. GUI looks almost identical. I'd say it fits what you're asking for almost perfectly.