I think the brakes model is great. In fact, the Internet already has them. If you don't want to see porn, JUST DON'T LOOK. That's equivalent to hitting the brakes.
I can see this possibly working, though the devil is in the details. First, consider a similar situation with a communications link. You could either send every byte twice (TI 99/4A cassette format, I'm looking at you!), or if the error rate isn't too high, checksum large blocks of data and retransmit if there's an error. The latter will usually yield a higher rate for the error-free channel you create the illusion of. So if you could break a computation into blocks and somehow detect a corrupt computation, you could just recompute the block. So bringing this back to computation, how the hell do you determine a corrupt computation without doing the computation to see what the correct result is? And if you knew this already, you wouldn't need to compute it in the first place. Maybe there are solutions to this, but for any piece of software? And you thought rewriting for multiple threads was hard...
If you're counting the water used to make the products I buy as water I use, then you can't also say that the water the companies use is in conflict with this, since it's the same water.
I just looked at my water usage for the past year, and it's about 32000 US gallons. Google tells me that this equals about 121 cubic meters. So if I lived in China, I'd only be able to use about 20 times as much water as I currently use? Oh no.
Your el cheapo flash card has a temperature-sensitive hardware defect which probably turned into an inability to read at hi-speed when the unit heated up to a certain temp and caused some poorly-made part of the chips to act flakey or broken. At USB 1.x speeds, the flash unit remains cool so access to it remains OK.
He could use some science to find out whether this is the case. Test drive on USB 1.0. Heat with hair dryer. Test on USB 1.0. Allow to cool. Test on USB 1.0. If the middle test gave errors but the first and last didn't, I'd say it's heat-related, and time to buy a fan unit for it, perhaps with water cooling.
Thank you. I get annoyed when people just assume that solid-state non-volatile storage devices are merely flash memory connected to the computer's bus (with USB inbetween), or hell, that flash chips themselves give you direct access to a particular physical bit on the chip.
I think he meant something that clears all the internal state, in addition to the user data. Flash drives surely keep track of bad blocks and some state for wear-leveling. I think his terminology was correct, because as I understand it, a low-level format of a hard drive for example isn't simply writing zeroes to the user data, it's asking the mechanism to rewrite some of its housekeeping data too.
So? I have a 384kbps/128kbps connection, and I use a fraction of the bandwidth you do. I think nobody should complain even if they lower the cap to 1 GB per month. My logic is that it wouldn't affect me, therefore it shouldn't affect anyone reasonable, since I am reasonable and surf web pages throughout the day.
And speed is simply the frequency at which something is performed. Who says this 4 GHz speed is clock rate, anyway? When I read it, I figured it was how many Libraries of Congress (LOC) it could process in a fortnight. Maybe it's just me.
Is it smelling light, or seeing it? Is sight the ability of an organism to detect photons hitting it, or simply how an organism perceives some sort of physical stimulus? The latter seems less useful, since it would allow sight, smell, touch to all refer to the same physical stimulus.
Hopefully they'll try to return all these stolen credentials back to the owners. Returning stolen property can get pretty costly though, with so many different owners. They can't just go destroying them, then the owners would lose them.
Agreed. I don't even care if they think I'm a criminal; it's that they would do things like that to my property (not even a Sony product!) with little care.
Is it really any surprise that life on Earth has evolved to not bother considering whether its views are self-suited, or truely objective, and thus has trouble grasping that its way of life isn't the only one?
I've gradually learned to fly, without requiring any position of my arms or body. But there are always power lines to worry about. I think that's due to being electrocuted when little. It didn't seem traumatic at the time (sure was to my parents, though), but I guess it was. Sucks to always have that danger in flying dreams.
I play video games a lot, but rarely am very conscious in dreams or exert control over them. I mainly just remember bits of them after waking.
No, you've clearly got it wrong. For example, the local metro bus company tells me that I can help the environment by riding the bus. So, I daily ride the bus for hours around and around its route. I bet I've done as much as 100 normal people to improve the environment.
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I think the brakes model is great. In fact, the Internet already has them. If you don't want to see porn, JUST DON'T LOOK. That's equivalent to hitting the brakes.
I can see this possibly working, though the devil is in the details. First, consider a similar situation with a communications link. You could either send every byte twice (TI 99/4A cassette format, I'm looking at you!), or if the error rate isn't too high, checksum large blocks of data and retransmit if there's an error. The latter will usually yield a higher rate for the error-free channel you create the illusion of. So if you could break a computation into blocks and somehow detect a corrupt computation, you could just recompute the block. So bringing this back to computation, how the hell do you determine a corrupt computation without doing the computation to see what the correct result is? And if you knew this already, you wouldn't need to compute it in the first place. Maybe there are solutions to this, but for any piece of software? And you thought rewriting for multiple threads was hard...
I shower daily, occasionally twice (like yesterday, after bicycling for a couple of hours). And yes, I flush the toilet as well.
If you're counting the water used to make the products I buy as water I use, then you can't also say that the water the companies use is in conflict with this, since it's the same water.
I just looked at my water usage for the past year, and it's about 32000 US gallons. Google tells me that this equals about 121 cubic meters. So if I lived in China, I'd only be able to use about 20 times as much water as I currently use? Oh no.
Haha, good idea. How about "malware quarantine lab" as the SSID?
He could use some science to find out whether this is the case. Test drive on USB 1.0. Heat with hair dryer. Test on USB 1.0. Allow to cool. Test on USB 1.0. If the middle test gave errors but the first and last didn't, I'd say it's heat-related, and time to buy a fan unit for it, perhaps with water cooling.
Thank you. I get annoyed when people just assume that solid-state non-volatile storage devices are merely flash memory connected to the computer's bus (with USB inbetween), or hell, that flash chips themselves give you direct access to a particular physical bit on the chip.
I think he meant something that clears all the internal state, in addition to the user data. Flash drives surely keep track of bad blocks and some state for wear-leveling. I think his terminology was correct, because as I understand it, a low-level format of a hard drive for example isn't simply writing zeroes to the user data, it's asking the mechanism to rewrite some of its housekeeping data too.
So? I have a 384kbps/128kbps connection, and I use a fraction of the bandwidth you do. I think nobody should complain even if they lower the cap to 1 GB per month. My logic is that it wouldn't affect me, therefore it shouldn't affect anyone reasonable, since I am reasonable and surf web pages throughout the day.
Errr, I mean LOC per second, as the latter part IS specified by Hz (cycles per second).
And speed is simply the frequency at which something is performed. Who says this 4 GHz speed is clock rate, anyway? When I read it, I figured it was how many Libraries of Congress (LOC) it could process in a fortnight. Maybe it's just me.
Is it smelling light, or seeing it? Is sight the ability of an organism to detect photons hitting it, or simply how an organism perceives some sort of physical stimulus? The latter seems less useful, since it would allow sight, smell, touch to all refer to the same physical stimulus.
Yeah, I welcome lower cell phone bills once they get this working. This will lower my bills, right? Right???
For some reason your comment makes me want to do a backup of my data on CDs all of the sudden...
Hopefully they'll try to return all these stolen credentials back to the owners. Returning stolen property can get pretty costly though, with so many different owners. They can't just go destroying them, then the owners would lose them.
Agreed. I don't even care if they think I'm a criminal; it's that they would do things like that to my property (not even a Sony product!) with little care.
Is it really any surprise that life on Earth has evolved to not bother considering whether its views are self-suited, or truely objective, and thus has trouble grasping that its way of life isn't the only one?
I play video games a lot, but rarely am very conscious in dreams or exert control over them. I mainly just remember bits of them after waking.
I guess you're right. Sony probably has a rootkit that's a tenth the thickness of a human hair, embedded in this thing.
I kept telling her that, but she wouldn't fall for it.
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They could have removed ambiguity by wording it as "Adbobe's Founders on Flash and Internet Standards".
No, you've clearly got it wrong. For example, the local metro bus company tells me that I can help the environment by riding the bus. So, I daily ride the bus for hours around and around its route. I bet I've done as much as 100 normal people to improve the environment.
Yes, the article lists the altitudes in feet and meters, while the Wiki lists them in km and miles. Unacceptable!