No, the energy and radiation would be at the singularity, past the event horizon, the 'point of no return'for anything, even light. Everyone here forgets that you will die far far before the event horizon due to the immense strength of the gravity there which would 'spaghetti-fy' you. (Stretch you long and thin as the difference between terminal velocity and strength of gravity at the tip of your body and the base (relative to the hole) makes your legs accelerate faster than your head, rather painfully. Assuming you're going in feet first.)
All the radiation, heat energy etc etc would be past the even horizon or orbiting the black hole outside it at various ranges, it is possible that you could be hit by an orbiting brick or something, but that's a common problem with any celestial body, not just black holes. The radiation however is much lighter and faster and would not be able to orbit at dangerous levels further away than dust, as having no weight and high speeds means you need more gravity exerted on you to trap you in orbit.
Erm, you use 'say'. I'm addressing posters on this page as a whole. Whilst I may have been replying to your post by pressing reply under your post, I was generally addressing the whole swathe of forum posts above you. This should have been evident from the fact that the sentence before it was 'Many Americans have come on here and said 'We're Americans, therefore we live in America'. Let's just clear that up;' I was obviously using instances which are always written in future tense. It is not a strawman as there ARE posts above that stated the instances I used or words to that effect.
If you regard this as spam, it is because your comprehension skills do not allow you to separate a generalized statement from a direct/personal one.
Funny how everyone trying to comment on this in opposition is from the US. Lets get this straight. You are not America. You are The United States of America. As a result you are referred to as the American, much as Great Britain's people are referred to as British and PRC people are referred to as Chinese. It's not our fault that some idiot saw fit to name you after the continent that you lived on. It's probably not your fault either, but that is the reality of it. Accept it.
Many Americans have come on here and said 'We're Americans, therefore we live in America'. Let's just clear that up; it's a colloquialism. Just like calling the toilet the bog in the UK is a colloquialism. When you say 'Most people who have English as a second language make that mistake' you mean 'Most people in the US who weren't born and bred speaking our version of English didn't learn our colloquialisms'. Fair enough, but don't assume you are center of the universe, and that everyone else is wrong just because you are always right. If you look around there aren't many non-Americans that agree with you. I personally am well acquainted with Americans calling their country America, but mainly because I'm well acquainted with American media. Likewise for anyone else who thinks that, the fact is - and numerous dictionary posts have proven it - America is a landmass/continent and Americans use it as a petname for yourselves, which is probably symbolic in some way.
No. It's not the same. It would be the same if NASA was launching EVERYONE into space and were renting the craft, but space shuttles are not a public resource, can't really have their data manipulated for personal gain, don't form a military asset and aren't liable to be used as a weapon against the gov't to blackmail preferential deals.
No. All forms of soot are particles bonded with other things, like hydrogen. Soot is not simple Carbon. It's impure, else it wouldn't be airborne. Carbon is denser than air. As a dust it will float, but it will not sit in the atmosphere.
Exactly, science is not telepathy. It tells us what should happen based on what we know, but we are human and live on earth so if we dont account for everything then it will be wrong.
Simple example. Your car is on a hill with the handbrake on. It should not more. But if the road was covered in black ice and you did not know...
If you don't know every variable you cannot predict perfectly. If a random eruption happens it can throw off climate readings for centuries due to the ash in the atmosphere. They have to account for that as if the readings are off next year and outside of their margin of error they are likely to have funding pulled somewhere down the line.
No, it's known as the gulf stream, a warm water current that travels from the equator up the east coast around Florida then across the ocean to Europe and into the British channel bringing mild weather as it warms the air. Polar icecaps melting brings lots of cold water down into that stream, and if we cut it off successfully, like the weather here in the UK suggests, it could become very much like the Aleutian Island that make up Southwest Alaska, but without the tectonic activity.
Not entirely true. The best sounding in the world are not reference, yes, but there are some fairly flat speakers out there. I would be far more worried about transient response times anyway as that has a far bigger impact on the sound.
This needs more mod points, because it's exactly what happens when a western company gets a monopoly or finds another reason to stop competing. they forget about the Eastern entities that then come and destroy them. Apple are experiencing it right now.
You can talk all you want about sweat shops but don't think for a second those sweat shops wouldn't be here if there wasn't legislation against it. I personally think if we started printing money like no tomorrow to devalue the market, then eliminated minimum wage, prices would come tumbling down in lieu of the reduction in wages, causing no effect over here bar a massive increase in jobs, but completely murdering the Chinese expectancy of superior buying power here and thus the exports.
You can substitute this whole method for tripling of import taxes to the same effect if you want.
And this is why we're still in this mess. People bickering over jobs when the reality is that if we (the Western world) make it China will clone it anyway and there won't be a damn thing we can do about it. Don't see why we can't turn their tactic on them seeing as they need our trade so badly now.
What you're saying is akin to saying 'If you emulate Facebook it won't be Facebook cos all my friends won't be there.'
There are complete working cracks of Diablo and the missing content is probably the online social stuff/multiplayer, which is the nature of doing without the server it's supposed to be tethered to.
Not really, it just means that there is a need for clean room reverse engineering. Hackers have done a lot more to get a piece of software functional without DRM. Hell look at Syncrosoft Key Emulation, they practically built an emulator to emulate an external processor that ran crypto code inside a USB key. That takes a LOT of expertise.
In the UK I currently pay £50ish ($95) for 63Mbit with a 250GB cap and I'm considered to be in a low cost area (Outer North London, where having Fibre makes sense financially because of all the houses and upper middle class peons anyway). If I lived a few miles further north they would charge me £80 for the same thing on the same line.
Makes tons of sense. Hell if I wasn't in an 18 month contract I'd have given up on fibre and gone back to copper. They have special offers sitting at around £20 for 10Mbit these days, that'd do for my poor student backside if it wasn't for the 30GB cap and my coursework uploads.
You miss the point deliberately. If you have a fault with your iPad you must put the whole thing in the rubbish and get another one (or have Apple do it for you on warranty). If you damage your car, we're not replacing your car, just the parts that are broken.Maybe 5% of the value of the car (being very generous) is represented by the ECU so the wastage s a percentage of the whole is vastly different.
It was an apples and oranges proposition to start with but the fact is a Car would get a far higher iFixit score than a iPad because even the electronic parts are DESIGNED with servicing in mind. iPads are deliberately designed to be nigh on impossible to service even by Apple themselves.
Actually no. If it was a software fault then the above applies. If it's a hardware fault you can replace the ECU or have an aftermarket one fitted on nearly all cars. So no, it's nothing like a broken iPad.
Still, the cruise control would not have been using GPS, it takes too long to refresh speed information, meaning that leg where he was supposed to be using cruise control is still dodgy.
I used to have a senior teacher that spent his past time involved with an organisation trying to decimalize time for SI. They gave up, primarily because they ruled that even if they 'base 10'ed' smaller time units like hours and minutes, they couldn't base 10 days or months or years without having to mix metric and imperial, it was simply impossible.
That is what should have happened to this. SI retroactively set the standard after HDD and storage companies changed it to gain a marketing edge against each other and FWIW I don't care if storage space isn't bound to bytes of raw data because it's bound to bytes logically in 99% of uses due to formatting. That isn't the argument, the argument is that we're using a mixed format very much like the potential clusterfuck I mentioned above. When we use 'SI' Megabytes, we're actually using a base^2 multiple of a bit (which is the fundamental data portion) then multiplying it in a base^10 fashion to get an approximation of a base^2 exponent. That's what it always was, an approximation. When this was originally done, it used to say in the small print on the case of your media "1MB = approx 1000KB" because there was actually 1024KB there and 1000KB was simpler to market but it's time we stopped pretending that that scales and fix our mistake.
And fuck Kibibyte etc. If you really want to remove base^2 from use you need to remove the byte bit at the end too and start calling things Kilobit and Megabit in storage too.
You missed the point entirely, the point is that when KB is put on paper, it means 1000 sets of 8 bits. If you assert that there is no point in following 'byte' based storage, then why are we still using bytes and not measuring in bits?
Screw broad vision, we're not trying to futureproof the standard against 382bit processors of the future, we're trying to destroy the discrepancies made when you take a system that you claim is 'independent' from binary constraints so you can get an edge in marketing, but for the vast majority of it's uses, will be formatted in a binary style to be used on a binary computer that calls data in a binary fashion.
Networking is different, it's time based. A network can deliver half a word and deliver the other half in the following second. Storage is absolute, it must be binary for the sake of sanity because half a byte is useless to nearly everyone and is ignored.
To the contrary, there was probably quite a bit more than 64GB on your surface pro. NTFS Filesystems take up around 7-10% of space and as a normal Windows user you should know that having real Windows on your tablet means it takes up space too. I would say Windows, the cache and the filesystem taking up a combined amount of only 14GB is very good.
After unMagical iPads, not-really-4G LTE and 45MB/s (but somehow this B conveniently equals Bit despite you giving me a free cloud service with the same case letters meaning Byte at the end), I really don't get how you can say this with a straight face.
Marketers are idiots, but it comes from the fact that they, like many journalists are nowhere near as technical as they purport to be, and therefore know exactly what the vast majority of consumers will be tricked by.
Actually they have paramount importance. It's all about efficiency. 32bit computers and all their binary predecessors and and alternatives process data in multiples of 2, be it base 2, hex (16), word (4), double word (8) or otherwise, its all base 2. Making block size any other length would man it would be more complex for a bunch of CPU components to accurately and quickly predict how long it would take to page a portion of data from RAM to an L4/3/2/1 cache on the CPU and how long it would take for a CPU to process a block of data. The opcodes for the actual process being done on the data needs to be base 2 as well as the CPU registers that receive these codes are base 2. This goes further than that, logical address space today is logical because it too needs to be locally divisible by integer number, so using a non base 2 value means a massive possibility of having 'half a block' or otherwise at the end of the HDD that is un-addressable by the drive. We already have spare blocks for bad block replacement, but even these must add up to the size of a block to be reassigned.
If you don't believe me, find me a block partition file system that allows non base 2 numbers like 231. 520 bytes, while really odd and inefficient as a result is still 512 bytes plus 8 bytes. At some point something will have to do that sum reducing efficiency. Maybe it was done due to metadata for each block being allocated at the time of creation (rather than it being allocated in advance like most modern filesystems)
Either way, OS/400 has little bearing on modern marketing file sizes seeing as most of the consumers confused by the messages will put hese hard drivers into use on Windows, Mac OSX, the odd Linux PCs. and appliances like set top boxes,
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No, the energy and radiation would be at the singularity, past the event horizon, the 'point of no return'for anything, even light. Everyone here forgets that you will die far far before the event horizon due to the immense strength of the gravity there which would 'spaghetti-fy' you. (Stretch you long and thin as the difference between terminal velocity and strength of gravity at the tip of your body and the base (relative to the hole) makes your legs accelerate faster than your head, rather painfully. Assuming you're going in feet first.)
All the radiation, heat energy etc etc would be past the even horizon or orbiting the black hole outside it at various ranges, it is possible that you could be hit by an orbiting brick or something, but that's a common problem with any celestial body, not just black holes. The radiation however is much lighter and faster and would not be able to orbit at dangerous levels further away than dust, as having no weight and high speeds means you need more gravity exerted on you to trap you in orbit.
Erm, you use 'say'. I'm addressing posters on this page as a whole. Whilst I may have been replying to your post by pressing reply under your post, I was generally addressing the whole swathe of forum posts above you. This should have been evident from the fact that the sentence before it was 'Many Americans have come on here and said 'We're Americans, therefore we live in America'. Let's just clear that up;' I was obviously using instances which are always written in future tense. It is not a strawman as there ARE posts above that stated the instances I used or words to that effect.
If you regard this as spam, it is because your comprehension skills do not allow you to separate a generalized statement from a direct/personal one.
Funny how everyone trying to comment on this in opposition is from the US. Lets get this straight. You are not America. You are The United States of America. As a result you are referred to as the American, much as Great Britain's people are referred to as British and PRC people are referred to as Chinese. It's not our fault that some idiot saw fit to name you after the continent that you lived on. It's probably not your fault either, but that is the reality of it. Accept it.
Many Americans have come on here and said 'We're Americans, therefore we live in America'. Let's just clear that up; it's a colloquialism. Just like calling the toilet the bog in the UK is a colloquialism. When you say 'Most people who have English as a second language make that mistake' you mean 'Most people in the US who weren't born and bred speaking our version of English didn't learn our colloquialisms'. Fair enough, but don't assume you are center of the universe, and that everyone else is wrong just because you are always right. If you look around there aren't many non-Americans that agree with you. I personally am well acquainted with Americans calling their country America, but mainly because I'm well acquainted with American media. Likewise for anyone else who thinks that, the fact is - and numerous dictionary posts have proven it - America is a landmass/continent and Americans use it as a petname for yourselves, which is probably symbolic in some way.
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No. It's not the same. It would be the same if NASA was launching EVERYONE into space and were renting the craft, but space shuttles are not a public resource, can't really have their data manipulated for personal gain, don't form a military asset and aren't liable to be used as a weapon against the gov't to blackmail preferential deals.
No. All forms of soot are particles bonded with other things, like hydrogen. Soot is not simple Carbon. It's impure, else it wouldn't be airborne. Carbon is denser than air. As a dust it will float, but it will not sit in the atmosphere.
Exactly, science is not telepathy. It tells us what should happen based on what we know, but we are human and live on earth so if we dont account for everything then it will be wrong.
Simple example. Your car is on a hill with the handbrake on. It should not more. But if the road was covered in black ice and you did not know...
If you don't know every variable you cannot predict perfectly. If a random eruption happens it can throw off climate readings for centuries due to the ash in the atmosphere. They have to account for that as if the readings are off next year and outside of their margin of error they are likely to have funding pulled somewhere down the line.
No, it's known as the gulf stream, a warm water current that travels from the equator up the east coast around Florida then across the ocean to Europe and into the British channel bringing mild weather as it warms the air. Polar icecaps melting brings lots of cold water down into that stream, and if we cut it off successfully, like the weather here in the UK suggests, it could become very much like the Aleutian Island that make up Southwest Alaska, but without the tectonic activity.
Not entirely true. The best sounding in the world are not reference, yes, but there are some fairly flat speakers out there. I would be far more worried about transient response times anyway as that has a far bigger impact on the sound.
^^^^^ Precisely right!
This needs more mod points, because it's exactly what happens when a western company gets a monopoly or finds another reason to stop competing. they forget about the Eastern entities that then come and destroy them. Apple are experiencing it right now.
You can talk all you want about sweat shops but don't think for a second those sweat shops wouldn't be here if there wasn't legislation against it. I personally think if we started printing money like no tomorrow to devalue the market, then eliminated minimum wage, prices would come tumbling down in lieu of the reduction in wages, causing no effect over here bar a massive increase in jobs, but completely murdering the Chinese expectancy of superior buying power here and thus the exports.
You can substitute this whole method for tripling of import taxes to the same effect if you want.
And this is why we're still in this mess. People bickering over jobs when the reality is that if we (the Western world) make it China will clone it anyway and there won't be a damn thing we can do about it. Don't see why we can't turn their tactic on them seeing as they need our trade so badly now.
That's just not true.
What you're saying is akin to saying 'If you emulate Facebook it won't be Facebook cos all my friends won't be there.'
There are complete working cracks of Diablo and the missing content is probably the online social stuff/multiplayer, which is the nature of doing without the server it's supposed to be tethered to.
Not really, it just means that there is a need for clean room reverse engineering. Hackers have done a lot more to get a piece of software functional without DRM. Hell look at Syncrosoft Key Emulation, they practically built an emulator to emulate an external processor that ran crypto code inside a USB key. That takes a LOT of expertise.
In the UK I currently pay £50ish ($95) for 63Mbit with a 250GB cap and I'm considered to be in a low cost area (Outer North London, where having Fibre makes sense financially because of all the houses and upper middle class peons anyway). If I lived a few miles further north they would charge me £80 for the same thing on the same line.
Makes tons of sense. Hell if I wasn't in an 18 month contract I'd have given up on fibre and gone back to copper. They have special offers sitting at around £20 for 10Mbit these days, that'd do for my poor student backside if it wasn't for the 30GB cap and my coursework uploads.
You miss the point deliberately. If you have a fault with your iPad you must put the whole thing in the rubbish and get another one (or have Apple do it for you on warranty). If you damage your car, we're not replacing your car, just the parts that are broken.Maybe 5% of the value of the car (being very generous) is represented by the ECU so the wastage s a percentage of the whole is vastly different.
It was an apples and oranges proposition to start with but the fact is a Car would get a far higher iFixit score than a iPad because even the electronic parts are DESIGNED with servicing in mind. iPads are deliberately designed to be nigh on impossible to service even by Apple themselves.
Actually no. If it was a software fault then the above applies. If it's a hardware fault you can replace the ECU or have an aftermarket one fitted on nearly all cars. So no, it's nothing like a broken iPad.
Still, the cruise control would not have been using GPS, it takes too long to refresh speed information, meaning that leg where he was supposed to be using cruise control is still dodgy.
I used to have a senior teacher that spent his past time involved with an organisation trying to decimalize time for SI. They gave up, primarily because they ruled that even if they 'base 10'ed' smaller time units like hours and minutes, they couldn't base 10 days or months or years without having to mix metric and imperial, it was simply impossible.
That is what should have happened to this. SI retroactively set the standard after HDD and storage companies changed it to gain a marketing edge against each other and FWIW I don't care if storage space isn't bound to bytes of raw data because it's bound to bytes logically in 99% of uses due to formatting. That isn't the argument, the argument is that we're using a mixed format very much like the potential clusterfuck I mentioned above. When we use 'SI' Megabytes, we're actually using a base^2 multiple of a bit (which is the fundamental data portion) then multiplying it in a base^10 fashion to get an approximation of a base^2 exponent. That's what it always was, an approximation. When this was originally done, it used to say in the small print on the case of your media "1MB = approx 1000KB" because there was actually 1024KB there and 1000KB was simpler to market but it's time we stopped pretending that that scales and fix our mistake.
And fuck Kibibyte etc. If you really want to remove base^2 from use you need to remove the byte bit at the end too and start calling things Kilobit and Megabit in storage too.
Or if you built it yourself and you like to see POST to confirm that CMOS battery is functional, you'll see POST.
Are you seriously that elitist or are you a Mac User?
You missed the point entirely, the point is that when KB is put on paper, it means 1000 sets of 8 bits. If you assert that there is no point in following 'byte' based storage, then why are we still using bytes and not measuring in bits?
Screw broad vision, we're not trying to futureproof the standard against 382bit processors of the future, we're trying to destroy the discrepancies made when you take a system that you claim is 'independent' from binary constraints so you can get an edge in marketing, but for the vast majority of it's uses, will be formatted in a binary style to be used on a binary computer that calls data in a binary fashion.
Networking is different, it's time based. A network can deliver half a word and deliver the other half in the following second. Storage is absolute, it must be binary for the sake of sanity because half a byte is useless to nearly everyone and is ignored.
To the contrary, there was probably quite a bit more than 64GB on your surface pro. NTFS Filesystems take up around 7-10% of space and as a normal Windows user you should know that having real Windows on your tablet means it takes up space too. I would say Windows, the cache and the filesystem taking up a combined amount of only 14GB is very good.
Because naturally we use different platter sizes for each size spec in a computer.
Actually we don't, we use the same bloody platter at different densities, so your post is stupid and pointless.
BECAUSE EVERY OTHER INDUSTRY ON THE PLANET ISN'T INFERNALLY TIED TO BINARY.
After unMagical iPads, not-really-4G LTE and 45MB/s (but somehow this B conveniently equals Bit despite you giving me a free cloud service with the same case letters meaning Byte at the end), I really don't get how you can say this with a straight face.
Marketers are idiots, but it comes from the fact that they, like many journalists are nowhere near as technical as they purport to be, and therefore know exactly what the vast majority of consumers will be tricked by.
Please mod down into oblivion, I failed to read on.
Actually they have paramount importance. It's all about efficiency. 32bit computers and all their binary predecessors and and alternatives process data in multiples of 2, be it base 2, hex (16), word (4), double word (8) or otherwise, its all base 2. Making block size any other length would man it would be more complex for a bunch of CPU components to accurately and quickly predict how long it would take to page a portion of data from RAM to an L4/3/2/1 cache on the CPU and how long it would take for a CPU to process a block of data. The opcodes for the actual process being done on the data needs to be base 2 as well as the CPU registers that receive these codes are base 2. This goes further than that, logical address space today is logical because it too needs to be locally divisible by integer number, so using a non base 2 value means a massive possibility of having 'half a block' or otherwise at the end of the HDD that is un-addressable by the drive. We already have spare blocks for bad block replacement, but even these must add up to the size of a block to be reassigned.
If you don't believe me, find me a block partition file system that allows non base 2 numbers like 231. 520 bytes, while really odd and inefficient as a result is still 512 bytes plus 8 bytes. At some point something will have to do that sum reducing efficiency. Maybe it was done due to metadata for each block being allocated at the time of creation (rather than it being allocated in advance like most modern filesystems)
Either way, OS/400 has little bearing on modern marketing file sizes seeing as most of the consumers confused by the messages will put hese hard drivers into use on Windows, Mac OSX, the odd Linux PCs. and appliances like set top boxes,