Never. Microsoft is hoping that ExFAT will become the next filesystem for portable media - and hoping very much because they hold critical patents to impliment it. They aren't going to support a competing technology.
Same for pushing WMA - they even went to the extent of bundling with Windows a CD ripper that only saved to WMA and a simple video editing application that only saved to WMV. Even with that level of underhanded advantage they could never establish a dominant position.
MP3 is just too entrenched. Many have tried to displace it, both open-source and propritary. Mp3 pro, vorbis, WMA, AAC, AC3... some have achieved a level of success, but none rival MP3 in popularity. Despite the fact that, compared to any of those more recent codecs, MP3 is kind of crap. Seriously dated technology.
I'd make some sort of metaphorical comparison, except that when referring to things demonstrating instability my stock phrase is 'up and down like the price of bitcoin.'
The good news is that population appears to only go through a phase of exponential growth before naturally settling down. Something about a developed society really depresses birth rates. A few extreme cases have required the use of coercive population control to get through the developing phase, but even China is now in the process of gradually eliminating it as no longer nessicary.
I'm not sure hard drives will still be used in the same way. It's increasingly looking like SSDs will take over for a lot of things, and hard drives will take the role that once was filled by tape: Backups, archival and the lowest rank of tiered storage. In which case you won't be using RAID or even a conventional filesystem, but some form of object storage.
BT: The biggest ISP in the UK. Former state-run monopoly phone company, long since privatized, but heavily regulated to prevent abuse of its unique position. Sky: Another major ISP. ADSL service. Also provides satellite TV.
Eventually the technology will improve and bring the price down. You can get cameras for £5 now, and even cheap hardware can have the capability for real-time image processing. Eventually it'll probably be incorporated into the Google Glass v7 - not as a disability aid, but as a hands-free input device.
15k drives used to have a vital role for performance-critical applications, before flash became affordable. SSDs have now effectively displaced them from that position, leaving 15k drives as little more than a curiosity.
You can get the flash chips off. Chances are one of them will be dead, but very few SSDs have just one chip - most seem to have eight of them, so you can get seven good ones.
It's not an easy thing to do though. You need a very high level of skill with surface mount desoldering, and an even higher level to reattach them to a test platform to see which ones are duds.
My first computer stored data on audio tape! I don't know what their capacity was, but I remember my father borrowing games from work to run through a dual-cassette deck. Some of them were copies of copies, and you had to fiddle with the treble knob to get them to read.
I don't think we're beating that unless someone here is old enough to have used core memory or fluid delay lines.
More accurately, recent versions of OSX have their use of TRIM commands limited to the 'apple endorsed' models of SSD, the ones the machine ships with. There's some dispute over the reasons for this. One faction claims it's Apple trying to sabotage upgrades, making it so that if you buy an after-market SSD rather than paying their insane markup performance will become awful. Another faction claims it isn't deliberate sabotage, but rather a lack of interest in testing for unsupported hardware configurations: TRIM can potentially malfunction horrible if the SSD doesn't impliment it in quite the expected way, and Apple has only coded and tested it for their preferred models. By disabling it on third-party hardware they remove the need to test for fifty-odd different devices to make sure it isn't going to corrupt data.
I wonder how 'terrorist attack' is defined? It may just be that a lot more crimes are being classed as terrorism now, or that increasing enforcement effort results in a lot more half-baked schemes getting high-profile arrests, when they otherwise wouldn't have gone anywhere.
And about a thousand-year burn? Electric thrusters have crap thrust. Fantastic specific impulse, but crap thrust. And even a very small asteroid is going to be in the multi-kiloton range.
China had gone from third-world mudhole to industrial superpower in fifty years, and is now capable of taking on Europe and the mighty US even in science and advanced engineering. Whatever their qualifications, they seem to know what they are doing.
"why is it China is singled out for its firewall, when most countries have similar setups?"
Biggest population. Biggest global economic role. Also arguably the most sophisticated censorship system, in terms of both technology and administration.
And quite a few to Vietnam. Not due to ideological conflict, but because Vietnam is like China but more so: Unions are illegal, worker's rights basically nonexistant, no environmental protection laws, ridiculously low tax rate. It's even cheaper than China!
"The only reason why Ukraine is not overrun yet is that Putin is unwilling to use Russian army in this conflict"
That, and the threat of international action. Putin is willing to accept sanctions as the cost of conquest - or as he sees it, claiming back what is rightfully Russia's. But he would be foolish to invite sanctions if there is a way to achieve his goals without them. That's why he hasn't just outright invaded: Even a thin layer of deniability is enough to stay the hand of the EU, who are just as dependant upon Russian gas as Russia is upon their trade.
Slashdot Mirror
Someone in hollywood probably decided it makes the audience feel more intelligent.
The container makes no significent difference to the size of the file. That's a codec thing. Codec and container are seperate.
MKV is popular for anime because it has reliable support for multiple audio streams and subtitle streams. Something that AVI and MP4 lack.
xvid is rather badly dated now. h264 is the current holder of the 'best codec' title, though another may well displace it in time.
I vaguely understand that VP8 and h264 are actually around the same level, as codecs - but h264 has a very mature and refined encoder, x264.
Never. Microsoft is hoping that ExFAT will become the next filesystem for portable media - and hoping very much because they hold critical patents to impliment it. They aren't going to support a competing technology.
Same for pushing WMA - they even went to the extent of bundling with Windows a CD ripper that only saved to WMA and a simple video editing application that only saved to WMV. Even with that level of underhanded advantage they could never establish a dominant position.
MP3 is just too entrenched. Many have tried to displace it, both open-source and propritary. Mp3 pro, vorbis, WMA, AAC, AC3... some have achieved a level of success, but none rival MP3 in popularity. Despite the fact that, compared to any of those more recent codecs, MP3 is kind of crap. Seriously dated technology.
I'd make some sort of metaphorical comparison, except that when referring to things demonstrating instability my stock phrase is 'up and down like the price of bitcoin.'
The good news is that population appears to only go through a phase of exponential growth before naturally settling down. Something about a developed society really depresses birth rates. A few extreme cases have required the use of coercive population control to get through the developing phase, but even China is now in the process of gradually eliminating it as no longer nessicary.
I'm not sure hard drives will still be used in the same way. It's increasingly looking like SSDs will take over for a lot of things, and hard drives will take the role that once was filled by tape: Backups, archival and the lowest rank of tiered storage. In which case you won't be using RAID or even a conventional filesystem, but some form of object storage.
BT: The biggest ISP in the UK. Former state-run monopoly phone company, long since privatized, but heavily regulated to prevent abuse of its unique position.
Sky: Another major ISP. ADSL service. Also provides satellite TV.
Whereas in the American system, the accused has an incentive to provide a false confession.
Eventually the technology will improve and bring the price down. You can get cameras for £5 now, and even cheap hardware can have the capability for real-time image processing. Eventually it'll probably be incorporated into the Google Glass v7 - not as a disability aid, but as a hands-free input device.
15k drives used to have a vital role for performance-critical applications, before flash became affordable. SSDs have now effectively displaced them from that position, leaving 15k drives as little more than a curiosity.
You can get the flash chips off. Chances are one of them will be dead, but very few SSDs have just one chip - most seem to have eight of them, so you can get seven good ones.
It's not an easy thing to do though. You need a very high level of skill with surface mount desoldering, and an even higher level to reattach them to a test platform to see which ones are duds.
My first computer stored data on audio tape! I don't know what their capacity was, but I remember my father borrowing games from work to run through a dual-cassette deck. Some of them were copies of copies, and you had to fiddle with the treble knob to get them to read.
I don't think we're beating that unless someone here is old enough to have used core memory or fluid delay lines.
Risky Array of Imminent Disaster.
More accurately, recent versions of OSX have their use of TRIM commands limited to the 'apple endorsed' models of SSD, the ones the machine ships with. There's some dispute over the reasons for this. One faction claims it's Apple trying to sabotage upgrades, making it so that if you buy an after-market SSD rather than paying their insane markup performance will become awful. Another faction claims it isn't deliberate sabotage, but rather a lack of interest in testing for unsupported hardware configurations: TRIM can potentially malfunction horrible if the SSD doesn't impliment it in quite the expected way, and Apple has only coded and tested it for their preferred models. By disabling it on third-party hardware they remove the need to test for fifty-odd different devices to make sure it isn't going to corrupt data.
I wonder how 'terrorist attack' is defined? It may just be that a lot more crimes are being classed as terrorism now, or that increasing enforcement effort results in a lot more half-baked schemes getting high-profile arrests, when they otherwise wouldn't have gone anywhere.
But that requires some minimal level of effort.
"Using electric thrusters"
And about a thousand-year burn? Electric thrusters have crap thrust. Fantastic specific impulse, but crap thrust. And even a very small asteroid is going to be in the multi-kiloton range.
Unless someone gets fusion working. Anything can be recycled if you've got enough energy to throw at it.
"We came in peace for all mankind"
If you look closely, someone has scrawled 'except the godless commies' beneath it.
China had gone from third-world mudhole to industrial superpower in fifty years, and is now capable of taking on Europe and the mighty US even in science and advanced engineering. Whatever their qualifications, they seem to know what they are doing.
"why is it China is singled out for its firewall, when most countries have similar setups?"
Biggest population. Biggest global economic role. Also arguably the most sophisticated censorship system, in terms of both technology and administration.
And quite a few to Vietnam. Not due to ideological conflict, but because Vietnam is like China but more so: Unions are illegal, worker's rights basically nonexistant, no environmental protection laws, ridiculously low tax rate. It's even cheaper than China!
"The only reason why Ukraine is not overrun yet is that Putin is unwilling to use Russian army in this conflict"
That, and the threat of international action. Putin is willing to accept sanctions as the cost of conquest - or as he sees it, claiming back what is rightfully Russia's. But he would be foolish to invite sanctions if there is a way to achieve his goals without them. That's why he hasn't just outright invaded: Even a thin layer of deniability is enough to stay the hand of the EU, who are just as dependant upon Russian gas as Russia is upon their trade.