The OnStar module found in most GM cars has an automotive-qualified 400MHz PPC 603e-based core and the latest versions have 16MB (or more) of flash and RAM.
Accesses don't wear flash significantly compared to writes. Heavily read pages of NAND flash do need to be rewritten occasionally, but I can't imagine this alone would ever cause a device to reach its wear limit in normal use. NTFS does write more than FAT32, so you're still correct that FAT is better for reducing wear. FAT's fault tolerance is notoriously bad though.... would you rather lose your data or have to replace a $20 usb stick (which will probably be $2 by the time you wear it out)
Flash drives have a flash translation layer that makes the flash look like a regular disk despite having special properties. This layer handles the wear-leveling, garbage collection, and bad block detection so the standard filesystem (that was designed for magnetic disks, probably) doesn't have to consider them. Regardless of the filesystem used, the wear of the device should be related to the total amount of data written, not the location of the data.
You could just do return remark + reference; No need to waste stack space with an extra Funny. Wittys need to support Odds being added to them, and also be convertible to Funnys.
Of course, it's a sig, not a function... so we really shouldn't be analyzing it this carefully.
The electronic lock systems I've seen all stay locked as soon as the network goes down or the power goes out. And the police and firemen have old-fashioned manual keys that can open them when they need to get in. Sucks when it's not an emergency and you need to get in though...
If 20% of a given ISP user's would, everyday, post random gibberish on 10 different USENET groups, this would be a good start. Let those fuckers wonder what the hell we're talking about.
Fill USENET with garbage? I was pretty sure that was already happening...
It's ridiculous for a professional/graduate school to regulate drinking at all. IMHO, it's pretty dumb the way U.S. colleges/universities do it. People who are over 18 do not need people acting as their parents. If people drink when they are under 21, they should face the police, not some silly disciplinary process. If they don't bother anyone enough for the police to take notice, why trouble over it?
Universities shouldn't be any more liable for the illegal/stupid things that their non-minor students do than a regular landlord, and if the students live off university property, it shouldn't be their problem at all.
Of course, universities have handbooks/rule books that their students are required to abide by in order to receive their services. Punishing students within those guidelines is within their rights, as a private institution can deny its services arbitrarily, assuming they follow antidiscrimination laws. They are also generally required to abide by the rules they set out. I haven't researched the details of this case and I'm not necessarily arguing in favor of the student, rather, I'm advocating how university rules should be designed.
If it's patented, you wouldn't need to reverse engineer anything. When you get a patent, your invention becomes public. In exchange, you're granted the legal right to control who uses it.
Not exactly.. it's similar to how a bank doesn't have enough cash to pay out every account at once... they assume that most people will only use a small fraction of their space, and only allocate that much. If everyone decided to fill up their Gmail accounts all at once, there would be trouble.
A librarian should not be looking for people committing crimes. If a librarian happens to stumble upon someone doing so, and does nothing, one could consider that grounds for dismissal, possibly. Also, the librarian could be subpoenaed, and would have to show up in court.
Straight C. They're gonna have to learn it sometime, it's useful, and they'll learn about how the computer works. Unless people don't think knowing something as low-level as pointers or a sort algorithm is important. Then go ahead and teach Java with its libraries for everything and garbage collection and slow-and-fatness.
Yes, my school used FERPA as an excuse for everything too. There's a little bit of legitimacy to it to protect stuff that's should be kept private (so they can't sell your grades to a company or release your disciplinary record without permission), but the things the school says it relates too are nuts... and then when it does matter they don't follow it.
They preach privacy when the students want something but then publicly admit they read our email.
Microsoft released "Train Simulator" a year or two ago. It's detailed enough, I heard, that Union Pacific thought it could lead to people stealing or hijacking trains.
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The OnStar module found in most GM cars has an automotive-qualified 400MHz PPC 603e-based core and the latest versions have 16MB (or more) of flash and RAM.
Accesses don't wear flash significantly compared to writes. Heavily read pages of NAND flash do need to be rewritten occasionally, but I can't imagine this alone would ever cause a device to reach its wear limit in normal use. NTFS does write more than FAT32, so you're still correct that FAT is better for reducing wear. FAT's fault tolerance is notoriously bad though.... would you rather lose your data or have to replace a $20 usb stick (which will probably be $2 by the time you wear it out)
Flash drives have a flash translation layer that makes the flash look like a regular disk despite having special properties. This layer handles the wear-leveling, garbage collection, and bad block detection so the standard filesystem (that was designed for magnetic disks, probably) doesn't have to consider them. Regardless of the filesystem used, the wear of the device should be related to the total amount of data written, not the location of the data.
Works better as:
You know what they call the guy who graduates last in his class at law school?
Your Honor.
You could just do return remark + reference; No need to waste stack space with an extra Funny. Wittys need to support Odds being added to them, and also be convertible to Funnys.
Of course, it's a sig, not a function... so we really shouldn't be analyzing it this carefully.
The congressmen don't read the bills... why should we?
The electronic lock systems I've seen all stay locked as soon as the network goes down or the power goes out. And the police and firemen have old-fashioned manual keys that can open them when they need to get in. Sucks when it's not an emergency and you need to get in though...
Not quite. You make a gerund when you take a verb and add -ing to make a noun.
First of all, I actually checked my Webster's Third New International Dictionary (Unabridged). I admit it does date from 1981.
Second, if you use the definition you linked, the posting doesn't make sense. Try it out.
Leverage is not a verb. Please stop using it as such. See the article posted today about loss of literacy.
Fill USENET with garbage? I was pretty sure that was already happening...
It's ridiculous for a professional/graduate school to regulate drinking at all. IMHO, it's pretty dumb the way U.S. colleges/universities do it. People who are over 18 do not need people acting as their parents. If people drink when they are under 21, they should face the police, not some silly disciplinary process. If they don't bother anyone enough for the police to take notice, why trouble over it?
Universities shouldn't be any more liable for the illegal/stupid things that their non-minor students do than a regular landlord, and if the students live off university property, it shouldn't be their problem at all.
Of course, universities have handbooks/rule books that their students are required to abide by in order to receive their services. Punishing students within those guidelines is within their rights, as a private institution can deny its services arbitrarily, assuming they follow antidiscrimination laws. They are also generally required to abide by the rules they set out. I haven't researched the details of this case and I'm not necessarily arguing in favor of the student, rather, I'm advocating how university rules should be designed.
Put up a web server and link it from /. For added effect, get it linked from fark.com as well.
Duh.
If it's patented, you wouldn't need to reverse engineer anything. When you get a patent, your invention becomes public. In exchange, you're granted the legal right to control who uses it.
Correlation does not imply causation.
Fools.
Not exactly.. it's similar to how a bank doesn't have enough cash to pay out every account at once... they assume that most people will only use a small fraction of their space, and only allocate that much. If everyone decided to fill up their Gmail accounts all at once, there would be trouble.
A librarian should not be looking for people committing crimes. If a librarian happens to stumble upon someone doing so, and does nothing, one could consider that grounds for dismissal, possibly. Also, the librarian could be subpoenaed, and would have to show up in court.
Did you write it in duplicate in a notebook with mechanically numbered pages and date it accurately?
Straight C. They're gonna have to learn it sometime, it's useful, and they'll learn about how the computer works. Unless people don't think knowing something as low-level as pointers or a sort algorithm is important. Then go ahead and teach Java with its libraries for everything and garbage collection and slow-and-fatness.
Yes, my school used FERPA as an excuse for everything too. There's a little bit of legitimacy to it to protect stuff that's should be kept private (so they can't sell your grades to a company or release your disciplinary record without permission), but the things the school says it relates too are nuts... and then when it does matter they don't follow it.
They preach privacy when the students want something but then publicly admit they read our email.
Gotta love Northwestern.
The paper trail is not an end-all solution. Who says it can't print out one thing while tallying another?
You missed the joke entirely. (It's from _Austin Powers_)
BrainFuck is really easy to learn.. It only has 8 symbols and no real syntax. Doing anything useful in it is just a pain in the ass.
Microsoft released "Train Simulator" a year or two ago. It's detailed enough, I heard, that Union Pacific thought it could lead to people stealing or hijacking trains.
Great, now we'll have even more clueless people who want to "Get on Netscape" while referring to connecting to the internet.