Corsair were awesome till a few months ago when they dumped SLC. My 16GB Voyager GT is a stick of shit. Oh yeah, streaming performance is great at 25MB/sec and random reads are pretty good too. Streaming writes are better than average at around 15MB/sec. But for random writes it's just awful. How does 10-20 writes per second sound? Crap? It is.
I tried to use one as the boot drive in my Eee PC and it was glacial. There also seemed to be some kind of pathological interaction between the MCL Voyager GT and Linux's CFQ IO scheduler - when performing a lot of writes the machine would lock solid for several seconds at a time, it looked like reads were being squeezed out. I never did boil it down to a clean test case though. Switching to the deadline scheduler improved matters substantially. While investigating that I realised Linux doesn't have an optimal scheduler for flash drives, they're all built around reducing and consolidating head seeks. no-op (which as the name suggests is just a FIFO with no real scheduling at all) is the fastest scheduler for USB flash, but you get no fair scheduling at all - you have to wait for that 500MB write to finish before your 100-byte read gets its turn. At least some of no-op's better performance is down to it not being anticipatory - it doesn't wait a few milliseconds after an IO to see if the process that requested the previous read/write requests another near by. That's just a waste of time with flash which doesn't have a physical head to seek.
There's a fair bit of tuning you can do at runtime with Linux's IO schedulers, read the docs in/my/linux/source/Documentation/block.
If you want fast, look at the old, 8GB SLC Voyager GTs. 30MB/sec read, 25MB/sec headline figures don't sound that much better, but in the real world they can be 3x faster at writes than the newer MLC models thanks to overwhelmingly better random write performance.
The trajectory of the spacecraft will be in the plane of the solar system, which is pretty much the plane of Mars's equator. If you want to land near the equator you're already going the right way for aerobraking in an equitorial orbit; you more or less just spiral down (that is of course a gross oversimplification). If you want to land at the pole you'd need to transfer from the 'natural' equitorial orbit to a polar one, which requires a bit more than merely an extra few seconds of aerobraking.
Staying in the USA won't help. The US and UK have a bilateral agreement where extraditions don't require the usual judicial oversight in the other country. The UK could have you arrested in the USA and extradited without your appearing before a US court.
Damn right. The only proper response to terrorism for the majority of the population is to do fuck all about it. Just keep doing exactly what you were doing before, perhaps with a little more vigilance. If you let them change you way of life and erode your freedoms they win. That's exactly what they want. I really have no idea what the government are trying to protect by being able to hold people for 42 days. An outside chance of saving a few lives? A damn sight more people died fighting for things like the right to trial by jury (gone), the right not to be held without charge (gone) and the right to peacefully protest parliament (gone) than have been killed by terrorists.
If someone called her "miss" I expect all they'd get is a stern look. "Your Majesty" initially, then "mam" (pronounced to rhyme with "jam" not "palm").
Of course you mean that those unelected lords are there to stop laws that are popular with the masses, but not the aristocracy from passing.
There's not much of the aristocracy left in the Lords. They got rid of most of the hereditary peers a few years ago, only keeping on those who regularly turned up and did a good job. The majority are appointed life peers, "luminaries" chosen from business, science, politics etc.
Uhhhhh....let us presume for a moment that the hackers are trying to trick us into factoring a root signing authority's RSA key. Isn't it, like, bad that that's possible?
Security only needs to be good enough that the cost of breaking it is more than the reward of breaking it. Could you expect to make the hundreds of millions of dollars it would cost to have 15 million modern PCs running for a year from knowing a root signing authority's key? I doubt it and the signing authorities must doubt it too, or they'd be using more bits.
It is a tandem. There is a cover over the rear seat on a lot of photos on the web, but this image shows it without the cover and this page, among others, mentions the tandem seating.
A small, cheap, US-only station wouldn't have kept Russian space scientists and engineers funded and busy. If they were unemloyed they might have been tempted to build ICBMs and spy satellites for China, Iran, $enemy_du_jour.
The wings of many modern European small cars (perhaps bigger ones too) are plastic. It's fun freaking people out by bending their cars with your finger. I always wondered about the colour match to the metal parts, I figured it would fade or wear differently, but they've been around for several years now and I've yet to notice any mismatch. I don't know if they paint them or mould the colour in.
In the UK it can take all of what, 2 or 3 hours to go across all of England?
That's how long I have to drive just to get through the greater Chicago area.
If you go side-to-side, sure. If you go top to bottom, you're looking at closer to 7. But then of course there's Scotland stuck on top of England. According to the AA's (like the AAA) route planner, driving from Dover (major port in the South of England) to Aberdeen (city in the North of Scotland) takes 11 hours. But we English don't just drive to Scotland (and Wales, that's on the same island too!), we have ferries and trains to continental Europe. People regularly drive to the continent.
YOU try stuffing a family into a car that small for a 6 or 10 or 15 hour car trip. THEN come back and you tell me that your U.K. "big" car is suitable for a family. I dare you.
I've toured Europe in a Ford Sierra (a "UK big car" or "US mid-sized car" from the 80s/90s - this was a while ago), with a family of 4 and luggage for a 3 week camping holiday. Plenty of driving for double-digit hours. It's rather trivial to accept your dare, as I've already been there and done that. I can tell you from first-hand experience of long journeys (even by US standards) that cars of that size are fine for families.
This will really freak you out: I've done the same with family of 3 in a Peugeot 205, which is what you'd probably call a subcompact. Not especially comfortable, but far from unbearable.
I watch F1 a lot. I can't think of a single instance of an F1 car flying "several times its own length into the air". Can you cite a specific example I may have missed? I do recall a GT car flying through the air, a sibling post of mine is presumably linking to footage of that famous incident.
Anyway, I just don't think aerodynamic lift is a significant problem for road cars at normal road speeds. Very light cars exist - the Lotus Elise (series 1) weighs 720kg and has insignificant downforce, but Elises don't often go flying through the air. A slightly more normal car, the Mk1 VW Golf, weighs under 800kg and didn't fly through the air either.
If we consider two cars with identical bodies, but one with half the mass of the other, the lighter car will indeed be more susceptible to the wind (same force, less mass = more movement). But if an empty van, which has the same mass as a car[1], more than twice the area on every side and is less aerodynamically shaped can survive then making our cars a bit lighter should be no problem at all.
[1] I would have guessed at 1.5-2x, but looking it up a Ford Transit SWB and Ford Mondeo both weigh about 1600kg. For non-European readers, the Transit is the most popular van in Europe and the Mondeo is a very popular family saloon. I think they used to sell the Mondeo in the US, where it was considered a mid-sized saloon.
Consoles don't have keyboards so it must be a pain the a** to login let alone set up your account.
Setting up, say, an XBox Live account (name, address, card details...) with a controller is annoying, but you only do that once. Entering a password is a mild annoyance, but that's pretty much irrelevant for most people because the consoles have the whole "logging in" thing down pretty well. You don't need to re-enter all your details to register for every game. I can set a password on my PS3, but I have no need to, so for me "logging on" consists of starting the game. I've not seen a password for an actual game, only ever for my PSN ID, and I never have to enter that. You can use a keyboard with a console though - a standard Bluetooth or USB keyboard works fine with a PS3.
But look at Guitar Hero, Dance Dance Revolution, Buzz, Wii Fit etc. - specialised controllers are big business in the console world. Why not offer a dedicated controller? A trackball or thumbstick and a load of buttons could make for a better controller than keyboard+mouse for MMORPGs.
You can use a Wiimote to turn a TV into a wide-angle stereoscopic 3D display with unlimited simultaneous viewers (because it doesn't need to track heads) and gesture recognition? Wow, I thought it just did some trivial head tracking.
A non-exhaustive search of the Voices from the Hellmouth thread didn't reveal any UIDs below 50k. I based my date on this comment, which says the 100k mark was passed in early October 1999. I found that post linked to by a comment here today, perhaps in this thread.
People who want a penal system which has the same level of deterrence, a lower recidivism rate and produces productive members of society? I'd have thought a Republican would be all for a penal system which was cheaper to run and better for the economy. Perhaps you'll understand the selfish POV: shorter sentences with effective reform mean you pay less tax.
A six-digit UID might have been here for nine years. Which is probably long enough to qualify. There's a lot of variation in the six-figures though, so we do need a cutoff. Let's say anyone with a UID over 202722 is a noob.
If people used the internet to gather information and then interpreted it to form an opinion it would indeed make us smarter. Judging by the comments here and at other similar places, people don't gather information and form opinions nearly as much as they skip the hard step and simply gather opinions and adopt and regurgitate them.
First, a keyboard is inferior to an analogue stick (even if a mouse is superior to one). Second, you can't use a keyboard and mouse on the sofa - console controllers are handheld, keyboard and mouse need a desk. The second really is the killer - are you honestly going to set up a bunch of desks and chairs in the lounge so you and your mates can have a bash at 4-player Warhawk on the big screen?
Aiming is better with a mouse, but movement it way, way better with a thumbstick than it is with a keyboard. Not too relevant for an all-action run&gun game, but if there's a hint of strategy or stealth (eg. sniping in CoD4) fine control really helps expose as little of you as possible. I'm sure you can get suitable sticks for PCs, but not many people seem to use them.
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Corsair were awesome till a few months ago when they dumped SLC. My 16GB Voyager GT is a stick of shit. Oh yeah, streaming performance is great at 25MB/sec and random reads are pretty good too. Streaming writes are better than average at around 15MB/sec. But for random writes it's just awful. How does 10-20 writes per second sound? Crap? It is.
/my/linux/source/Documentation/block.
I tried to use one as the boot drive in my Eee PC and it was glacial. There also seemed to be some kind of pathological interaction between the MCL Voyager GT and Linux's CFQ IO scheduler - when performing a lot of writes the machine would lock solid for several seconds at a time, it looked like reads were being squeezed out. I never did boil it down to a clean test case though. Switching to the deadline scheduler improved matters substantially. While investigating that I realised Linux doesn't have an optimal scheduler for flash drives, they're all built around reducing and consolidating head seeks. no-op (which as the name suggests is just a FIFO with no real scheduling at all) is the fastest scheduler for USB flash, but you get no fair scheduling at all - you have to wait for that 500MB write to finish before your 100-byte read gets its turn. At least some of no-op's better performance is down to it not being anticipatory - it doesn't wait a few milliseconds after an IO to see if the process that requested the previous read/write requests another near by. That's just a waste of time with flash which doesn't have a physical head to seek.
There's a fair bit of tuning you can do at runtime with Linux's IO schedulers, read the docs in
If you want fast, look at the old, 8GB SLC Voyager GTs. 30MB/sec read, 25MB/sec headline figures don't sound that much better, but in the real world they can be 3x faster at writes than the newer MLC models thanks to overwhelmingly better random write performance.
The trajectory of the spacecraft will be in the plane of the solar system, which is pretty much the plane of Mars's equator. If you want to land near the equator you're already going the right way for aerobraking in an equitorial orbit; you more or less just spiral down (that is of course a gross oversimplification). If you want to land at the pole you'd need to transfer from the 'natural' equitorial orbit to a polar one, which requires a bit more than merely an extra few seconds of aerobraking.
Staying in the USA won't help. The US and UK have a bilateral agreement where extraditions don't require the usual judicial oversight in the other country. The UK could have you arrested in the USA and extradited without your appearing before a US court.
You're not saying they're the nearest equivalents just because they're both black, are you?
AIUI you can do your own wiring, but is has to be certified by an electrician if you want to sell your house.
Damn right. The only proper response to terrorism for the majority of the population is to do fuck all about it. Just keep doing exactly what you were doing before, perhaps with a little more vigilance. If you let them change you way of life and erode your freedoms they win. That's exactly what they want. I really have no idea what the government are trying to protect by being able to hold people for 42 days. An outside chance of saving a few lives? A damn sight more people died fighting for things like the right to trial by jury (gone), the right not to be held without charge (gone) and the right to peacefully protest parliament (gone) than have been killed by terrorists.
If someone called her "miss" I expect all they'd get is a stern look. "Your Majesty" initially, then "mam" (pronounced to rhyme with "jam" not "palm").
There's not much of the aristocracy left in the Lords. They got rid of most of the hereditary peers a few years ago, only keeping on those who regularly turned up and did a good job. The majority are appointed life peers, "luminaries" chosen from business, science, politics etc.
Security only needs to be good enough that the cost of breaking it is more than the reward of breaking it. Could you expect to make the hundreds of millions of dollars it would cost to have 15 million modern PCs running for a year from knowing a root signing authority's key? I doubt it and the signing authorities must doubt it too, or they'd be using more bits.
It is a tandem. There is a cover over the rear seat on a lot of photos on the web, but this image shows it without the cover and this page, among others, mentions the tandem seating.
Tandem cars like the Light Car Company Rocket? Designed by... Gordon Murray, the prof in TFA.
A small, cheap, US-only station wouldn't have kept Russian space scientists and engineers funded and busy. If they were unemloyed they might have been tempted to build ICBMs and spy satellites for China, Iran, $enemy_du_jour.
The wings of many modern European small cars (perhaps bigger ones too) are plastic. It's fun freaking people out by bending their cars with your finger. I always wondered about the colour match to the metal parts, I figured it would fade or wear differently, but they've been around for several years now and I've yet to notice any mismatch. I don't know if they paint them or mould the colour in.
If you go side-to-side, sure. If you go top to bottom, you're looking at closer to 7. But then of course there's Scotland stuck on top of England. According to the AA's (like the AAA) route planner, driving from Dover (major port in the South of England) to Aberdeen (city in the North of Scotland) takes 11 hours. But we English don't just drive to Scotland (and Wales, that's on the same island too!), we have ferries and trains to continental Europe. People regularly drive to the continent.
I've toured Europe in a Ford Sierra (a "UK big car" or "US mid-sized car" from the 80s/90s - this was a while ago), with a family of 4 and luggage for a 3 week camping holiday. Plenty of driving for double-digit hours. It's rather trivial to accept your dare, as I've already been there and done that. I can tell you from first-hand experience of long journeys (even by US standards) that cars of that size are fine for families.
This will really freak you out: I've done the same with family of 3 in a Peugeot 205, which is what you'd probably call a subcompact. Not especially comfortable, but far from unbearable.
I watch F1 a lot. I can't think of a single instance of an F1 car flying "several times its own length into the air". Can you cite a specific example I may have missed? I do recall a GT car flying through the air, a sibling post of mine is presumably linking to footage of that famous incident.
Anyway, I just don't think aerodynamic lift is a significant problem for road cars at normal road speeds. Very light cars exist - the Lotus Elise (series 1) weighs 720kg and has insignificant downforce, but Elises don't often go flying through the air. A slightly more normal car, the Mk1 VW Golf, weighs under 800kg and didn't fly through the air either.
If we consider two cars with identical bodies, but one with half the mass of the other, the lighter car will indeed be more susceptible to the wind (same force, less mass = more movement). But if an empty van, which has the same mass as a car[1], more than twice the area on every side and is less aerodynamically shaped can survive then making our cars a bit lighter should be no problem at all.
[1] I would have guessed at 1.5-2x, but looking it up a Ford Transit SWB and Ford Mondeo both weigh about 1600kg. For non-European readers, the Transit is the most popular van in Europe and the Mondeo is a very popular family saloon. I think they used to sell the Mondeo in the US, where it was considered a mid-sized saloon.
Setting up, say, an XBox Live account (name, address, card details...) with a controller is annoying, but you only do that once. Entering a password is a mild annoyance, but that's pretty much irrelevant for most people because the consoles have the whole "logging in" thing down pretty well. You don't need to re-enter all your details to register for every game. I can set a password on my PS3, but I have no need to, so for me "logging on" consists of starting the game. I've not seen a password for an actual game, only ever for my PSN ID, and I never have to enter that. You can use a keyboard with a console though - a standard Bluetooth or USB keyboard works fine with a PS3.
But look at Guitar Hero, Dance Dance Revolution, Buzz, Wii Fit etc. - specialised controllers are big business in the console world. Why not offer a dedicated controller? A trackball or thumbstick and a load of buttons could make for a better controller than keyboard+mouse for MMORPGs.
You can use a Wiimote to turn a TV into a wide-angle stereoscopic 3D display with unlimited simultaneous viewers (because it doesn't need to track heads) and gesture recognition? Wow, I thought it just did some trivial head tracking.
How do you know the Parallels update wasn't a workaround for a bug in Leopard?
A non-exhaustive search of the Voices from the Hellmouth thread didn't reveal any UIDs below 50k. I based my date on this comment, which says the 100k mark was passed in early October 1999. I found that post linked to by a comment here today, perhaps in this thread.
People who want a penal system which has the same level of deterrence, a lower recidivism rate and produces productive members of society? I'd have thought a Republican would be all for a penal system which was cheaper to run and better for the economy. Perhaps you'll understand the selfish POV: shorter sentences with effective reform mean you pay less tax.
A six-digit UID might have been here for nine years. Which is probably long enough to qualify. There's a lot of variation in the six-figures though, so we do need a cutoff. Let's say anyone with a UID over 202722 is a noob.
If people used the internet to gather information and then interpreted it to form an opinion it would indeed make us smarter. Judging by the comments here and at other similar places, people don't gather information and form opinions nearly as much as they skip the hard step and simply gather opinions and adopt and regurgitate them.
Two examples from high-profile journals. Social Text, even in its field, isn't high-profile.
First, a keyboard is inferior to an analogue stick (even if a mouse is superior to one). Second, you can't use a keyboard and mouse on the sofa - console controllers are handheld, keyboard and mouse need a desk. The second really is the killer - are you honestly going to set up a bunch of desks and chairs in the lounge so you and your mates can have a bash at 4-player Warhawk on the big screen?
Aiming is better with a mouse, but movement it way, way better with a thumbstick than it is with a keyboard. Not too relevant for an all-action run&gun game, but if there's a hint of strategy or stealth (eg. sniping in CoD4) fine control really helps expose as little of you as possible. I'm sure you can get suitable sticks for PCs, but not many people seem to use them.