But all the flash devices I've used have a retention period of at least 20 years (disclaimer: I'm thinking of flash ROMs and CPLDs and SPI flash for FPGAs, but the way they store bits is the same as a USB flash drive). I've never seen any as short as 1-3 years.
When I see my cats hunt, they aren't looking for a chase (well except for very small prey like mice which they tend to play with). When stalking something large (to them) like a rat or a rabbit they try to sneak up on the target unobserved, pounce and make the killing blow immediately, so the prey doesn't tend to know it's about to die. (They probably do this with larger prey to avoid a great deal of chasing and also the risk of injury when trying to kill a larger animal)
But hamburger ought to taste like hamburger. If you're using substitute hamburger "meat" to make a hamburger, it ought to be like hamburger. It's irrelevant that ice cream doesn't taste like hamburger, because ice cream isn't being passed off as hamburger.
British people ALSO joke that we are the 51st state. As a Europhile, I want us to have a good relation with the United States, but not at the expense of our relationship with the rest of Europe. (And Britain should have been in the full Schengen agreement years ago, but we're not to appease the Daily Mail reading little Englanders)
I guess this is why hot, sunny and sweltery northern Ireland has had such a violent past...oh wait, it's freezing cold and pisses with rain most of the time.
I've seen several of these flight sim projects. One part of me understands completely why the people who build them build them (I have enough hobbies that others think are a complete waste of time and money to understand entirely why people building flight sims like this want to do it), but another part of my brain is saying "for the money and time invested, you can actually build your own real, flying aircraft you can pilot yourself, and the graphics and frame rate are a lot lot better!".
Kind of reminds me. About a year before they closed Meigs in Chicago (which used to be the default start airport in Microsoft Flight Simulator), I flew in there for real in my elderly Cessna 140. I was kind of surprised when the frame rate didn't slow to about 10 fps when all the buildings of Chicago hoved into view:-)
I have an Acorn Archimedes (a desktop computer from when the ARM was being used as a PC processor, long before mobile. Acorn were the designers of ARM - it meant back then Acorn Risc Machine). It boots to a GUI (RISC OS) in around three seconds. Loading a program such as a word processor takes longer because they are on a floppy disc, but if I were to add a hard disc, I could be running the basic office type apps before a modern Windows box shows you the login prompt.
Cars, like people, seem to be getting morbidly obese. My first car, a Mini (original) weighed 650kg. My second car, a roomy 5 door hatchback (Ford Sierra) weighed just over 1000kg. The modern BMW Mini is not only heavier than the original Mini, but it's a 2 door small car that weighs more than my 5 door Ford Sierra did. It's around 1150kg!
Having to walk before you crawl does not mean you have to design an ugly electric vehicle before making a good looking one. Ugly is not a required step.
Well the Queen is on the front of all the Bank of England notes, and Elizabeth Fry is on the back of the 5 pound note. What I don't understand is why there wasn't any controversy about Adam Smith being on the back of the 20 pound note given he is the darling of the right wing and Scottish to boot.
At work I have a multimonitor setup running Debian 7 / Gnome 3. Works perfectly. I'm using an ATi graphics card (can't remember the model) and the proprietary drivers, it's accelerated and works very well. Setup was very straightforward - run the setup for the ATi drivers, then select in the GUI how you want your displays.
The trouble with GPOs is that many of them are extremely porous and can be bypassed with minimal effort. They are enforced mainly by the programs that they apply to. For example, the GPO to stop people using the command prompt can be easily bypassed simply by having a cmd.exe binary that ignores the setting. Similarly with regedit.
It's probably like aviation. The nut doesn't just have to comply with the specs, it needs a paper trail back to the mine where the ore was dug up. The nut itself is cheap. The paper trail and its preservation is what costs a fortune.
While "On the beach" is not at all scientifically sound, recent simulations with new climate models show that a limited nuclear war at India's latitude (limited to a total exchange of 50 Nagasaki sized devices), if population centres are targeted, would result in a "nuclear autumn" that would affect everyone. The simulation indicated the amount of soot injected into the stratosphere would result in several years without a summer. While it may not kill us all, it would cause problems for agriculture (shortened growing seasons, large increases in food prices, food shortages in 3rd world countries) so even if you're thousands of miles from any nuclear exchange between (say) India and China you're going to suffer some consequences as a result.
The average consumer won't -- but businesses, where Office makes its money will. Already our management here have decreed we will NOT be using any third party cloud ever for daily office work.
What we really need to know is how many app categories have decent apps. For all we know, the 10,000 apps are 9980 flashlight apps and hardly anything anywhere else.
Did they really try to sell a PC? I thought the only involvement aside from MS-DOS that they had in the 80s was the MSX specification (but it wasn't them making the actual MSX).
The thing is the iPad OS isn't called Mac OSX, it's called iOS, so no one has an expectation that it can run Mac apps.
The thing is people have the expectation that a Microsoft device running Windows will run with all their Windows apps. Then they discover that no, this version of Windows won't run your Windows apps. So the perceptions are "all the disadvantages of a PC and all the disadvantages of a tablet, but none of the advantages" Microsoft should have called the tablet/phone OS something else - the "Windows" trademark has probably serious negative value on a handheld and calling it Windows is actually holding it back.
Imagine if they had called the XBox "Windows" too. It would probably have been just an also-ran.
The other problem is Microsoft's dogged insistence on calling the tablet OS Windows, when it can't actually run any PC applications. People buy it thinking it'll run their normal applications, discover it can't, and never buy another Windows handheld device again. Apple for instance didn't call the iPhone the Mac Phone or the operating system Mac OSX, they gave it a new name and therefore no one ever thinks an iPhone runs Mac apps.
Well home A/C is one of those things where solar might make sense: you want the greatest amount of AC when the sun is shining most strongly, so the production of PV panels peaks just when your demand peaks.
The other reply mentioned the intermittent flowing water problem in these areas, the other problem is that the homes in a village aren't all densely packed like a Western city, but may be a couple of hundred meters apart. It's a lot cheaper to put a solar panel on each dwelling and not need much cable than have to run several miles of cable to wire up a dozen homes.
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A better example is "año" means year and "ano" means anus.
But all the flash devices I've used have a retention period of at least 20 years (disclaimer: I'm thinking of flash ROMs and CPLDs and SPI flash for FPGAs, but the way they store bits is the same as a USB flash drive). I've never seen any as short as 1-3 years.
When I see my cats hunt, they aren't looking for a chase (well except for very small prey like mice which they tend to play with). When stalking something large (to them) like a rat or a rabbit they try to sneak up on the target unobserved, pounce and make the killing blow immediately, so the prey doesn't tend to know it's about to die. (They probably do this with larger prey to avoid a great deal of chasing and also the risk of injury when trying to kill a larger animal)
But hamburger ought to taste like hamburger. If you're using substitute hamburger "meat" to make a hamburger, it ought to be like hamburger. It's irrelevant that ice cream doesn't taste like hamburger, because ice cream isn't being passed off as hamburger.
British people ALSO joke that we are the 51st state. As a Europhile, I want us to have a good relation with the United States, but not at the expense of our relationship with the rest of Europe. (And Britain should have been in the full Schengen agreement years ago, but we're not to appease the Daily Mail reading little Englanders)
I guess this is why hot, sunny and sweltery northern Ireland has had such a violent past...oh wait, it's freezing cold and pisses with rain most of the time.
How strong is the correlation?
I've seen several of these flight sim projects. One part of me understands completely why the people who build them build them (I have enough hobbies that others think are a complete waste of time and money to understand entirely why people building flight sims like this want to do it), but another part of my brain is saying "for the money and time invested, you can actually build your own real, flying aircraft you can pilot yourself, and the graphics and frame rate are a lot lot better!".
Kind of reminds me. About a year before they closed Meigs in Chicago (which used to be the default start airport in Microsoft Flight Simulator), I flew in there for real in my elderly Cessna 140. I was kind of surprised when the frame rate didn't slow to about 10 fps when all the buildings of Chicago hoved into view :-)
I have an Acorn Archimedes (a desktop computer from when the ARM was being used as a PC processor, long before mobile. Acorn were the designers of ARM - it meant back then Acorn Risc Machine). It boots to a GUI (RISC OS) in around three seconds. Loading a program such as a word processor takes longer because they are on a floppy disc, but if I were to add a hard disc, I could be running the basic office type apps before a modern Windows box shows you the login prompt.
Cars, like people, seem to be getting morbidly obese. My first car, a Mini (original) weighed 650kg. My second car, a roomy 5 door hatchback (Ford Sierra) weighed just over 1000kg. The modern BMW Mini is not only heavier than the original Mini, but it's a 2 door small car that weighs more than my 5 door Ford Sierra did. It's around 1150kg!
Having to walk before you crawl does not mean you have to design an ugly electric vehicle before making a good looking one. Ugly is not a required step.
Well the Queen is on the front of all the Bank of England notes, and Elizabeth Fry is on the back of the 5 pound note. What I don't understand is why there wasn't any controversy about Adam Smith being on the back of the 20 pound note given he is the darling of the right wing and Scottish to boot.
At work I have a multimonitor setup running Debian 7 / Gnome 3. Works perfectly. I'm using an ATi graphics card (can't remember the model) and the proprietary drivers, it's accelerated and works very well. Setup was very straightforward - run the setup for the ATi drivers, then select in the GUI how you want your displays.
The trouble with GPOs is that many of them are extremely porous and can be bypassed with minimal effort. They are enforced mainly by the programs that they apply to. For example, the GPO to stop people using the command prompt can be easily bypassed simply by having a cmd.exe binary that ignores the setting. Similarly with regedit.
It's probably like aviation. The nut doesn't just have to comply with the specs, it needs a paper trail back to the mine where the ore was dug up. The nut itself is cheap. The paper trail and its preservation is what costs a fortune.
While "On the beach" is not at all scientifically sound, recent simulations with new climate models show that a limited nuclear war at India's latitude (limited to a total exchange of 50 Nagasaki sized devices), if population centres are targeted, would result in a "nuclear autumn" that would affect everyone. The simulation indicated the amount of soot injected into the stratosphere would result in several years without a summer. While it may not kill us all, it would cause problems for agriculture (shortened growing seasons, large increases in food prices, food shortages in 3rd world countries) so even if you're thousands of miles from any nuclear exchange between (say) India and China you're going to suffer some consequences as a result.
My laptop has 16GB. More than 20GB is not unusual in a workstation today.
The average consumer won't -- but businesses, where Office makes its money will. Already our management here have decreed we will NOT be using any third party cloud ever for daily office work.
What we really need to know is how many app categories have decent apps. For all we know, the 10,000 apps are 9980 flashlight apps and hardly anything anywhere else.
Win32 apps would need at least a recompile. WinRT is not binary compatible with Windows 8 for native code.
Did they really try to sell a PC? I thought the only involvement aside from MS-DOS that they had in the 80s was the MSX specification (but it wasn't them making the actual MSX).
The thing is the iPad OS isn't called Mac OSX, it's called iOS, so no one has an expectation that it can run Mac apps.
The thing is people have the expectation that a Microsoft device running Windows will run with all their Windows apps. Then they discover that no, this version of Windows won't run your Windows apps. So the perceptions are "all the disadvantages of a PC and all the disadvantages of a tablet, but none of the advantages" Microsoft should have called the tablet/phone OS something else - the "Windows" trademark has probably serious negative value on a handheld and calling it Windows is actually holding it back.
Imagine if they had called the XBox "Windows" too. It would probably have been just an also-ran.
The other problem is Microsoft's dogged insistence on calling the tablet OS Windows, when it can't actually run any PC applications. People buy it thinking it'll run their normal applications, discover it can't, and never buy another Windows handheld device again. Apple for instance didn't call the iPhone the Mac Phone or the operating system Mac OSX, they gave it a new name and therefore no one ever thinks an iPhone runs Mac apps.
Cracking secure boot is not a DMCA violation if it's done for interoperability purposes. The DMCA specifically allows this.
Well home A/C is one of those things where solar might make sense: you want the greatest amount of AC when the sun is shining most strongly, so the production of PV panels peaks just when your demand peaks.
The other reply mentioned the intermittent flowing water problem in these areas, the other problem is that the homes in a village aren't all densely packed like a Western city, but may be a couple of hundred meters apart. It's a lot cheaper to put a solar panel on each dwelling and not need much cable than have to run several miles of cable to wire up a dozen homes.