With 1TB being 0.93TB the slack is actually becoming quite large.
Specially if you consider that 65GB is actually 6.5% of the disk size.
On the other hand, that is the final filesystem space, and not the diskspace itself.
The actual size difference between base 10 and base 2 would be 99511627776. That is a 9% difference. Meaning that a 1TB disk (931.32GiB) is 9% smaller than a 1TiB disk.
This binary prefix nonsense is just another example of marketing-speak intruding into long established standards, in a way for the vendors to sell less for more.
Yes, your answer is along the same line I've got from those priests I mentioned.
I also failed to mention that all the priests that agreed with me were Jesuits, which are pretty much the scholar branch the Catholic church (gross generalization, I know). But, in all fairness, 90% of the priests I've talked to were Jesuits.
I find it oddly depressing that, without all that symbology, people tend to simply ignore (or not accept) a religion. So, in the end, the symbols became more important than the message. Hence, these laws, hate and stupidity.
You know, I have a hard time grasping all this symbology stuff. I mean, isn't religion (any religion) about the message they try to transmit ? What does it matter if I set fire on a bible, koran, whatever ?
I was raised a catholic, and I always got into some good discussions with priests about the whole "son of god" and "virgin Mary" stuff. My point was always: why should it matter ? What is the merit of being a good person just because you are afraid of going to hell ? How is that any different than pointing a gun at someone's head, and making them going something good ?
Most strange of all, I did meet some priests that agreed with me at least twice.
So what you are saying is that "enforced freedom" is the way to go ?
As far as I'm concerned, the freedom to choose, including how your work is licensed, is the most important of all.
What piss me off is the change of rules during the game. If the copyright rule stated that a copyright was valid for 1000 years when Mickey was created, that would be ok by me (regarding Disney, not the rule). However, they changed the rules after that, to extend the copyright. That is wrong, plain and simple. Same for DMCA and plenty of other "trendy" regulations (the attacks on fair use, etc).
So yes, the copyright _idea_ is good. The way copyright works right now, or should I say the legislation regarding copyright, is flawed, and need to be replaced.
You are aware, of course, that the majority of the costs of the new drug development are in the clinical trials, not the actual compound discovery.
I'm glad someone else is aware of that.
The costs of the clinical trials for a new drug are simply astonishing. Since this all started because of something Brazil did, lemme give you some numbers from Brazil (for a single drug company I know): about US$ 150K for each patient, for each trial.
These are numbers I've seen first hand, some something I read on some obscure research.
I've yet to see anyone come up with a reliable and objective experiment that provided any evidence of a "sixth sense".
Maybe you mean "tangible", and not "reliable and objective". There are many things we consider real that are not be defined reliably nor objectively. Art is something of that sort. What differentiates a common object from an art object ? It is pretty subjective, but never the less real. Yes, we can come to an agreement on what art is, but thats just it: an agreement, a convention. It is not reliable or objective on itself.
I'm not defending the "sixth sense" concept here. I'm just point out that our current conventions and methodologies might not be adequate to analyze it.
There are many advantages to AIX: cheaper hardware, powerful POWER5 architecture to run on (IBM hardware scales quite nicely)
Lets please stress on the POWER5 part. I have used AIX on both POWER and POWERPC based systems. It really, really sucks on POWERPC. Well, actually, the hardware sucks, and AIX just sucks as a side effect.
I remember using AIX since the good old POWER2 days (Risc/6000 320 and others). It was already rock solid on those days.
In that specific case, the killing part would be the crime. In some other countries (Brazil among them), any public and offensive racist statements can lead to civil action/prosecution, or even jail time. Example: If I own a shop, and I say to someone "Get out of here nigger" and force that person to exit my shop, I can be arrested.
That "minimal #" being 1. There is at least 1 company that allows you to do it. There might be others too, but this is the one I know (I'm not from USA, and don't play on the USA market).
So is saying that "universe" means "everything". Thank you for reinforcing my point.
Btw, as I'm sure you know, I was not saying AN atom cannot be divided. I was just stating the meaning of the original word (or the original meaning of the word, if you like). Thus, my point.
Anyway, if it is possible to get to a "parallel universe" then that means that it exists. If it exists, then that means that it is already part of the universe. Therefore saying that there are many universes is a simple logical contradiction.
Be sure that research the etymology of the word "atom" before you make statements like that, please.
Indeed, one has got to presume that in such an eventuality the lack of experience in the UNIX space would place MS at a disadvantage.
Microsoft has knowledge and experience with UNIX since the 70s. I know someone how works at MS at a lab that has mostly Unix computers (Linux included).
So you alreay knew WinRK gave the best compression? I didn't; never even heard of it. My money would have been on bzip2.
I agree with you on the importance of this article but... bzip2 ? C'mon. Yes, I know it is better than gzip, and it is also supported everywhere. But it is much worst than the "modern" compression algorithms.
I have been using LZMA for some time now for things I need to store longer, and getting good results. It is not on the list, but should give results a little bit better than RAR. Too bad it is only fast when you have a lot of memory.
For short/medium time storage, I use bzip2. Online compression, gzip (zlib), of course.
That is what I enjoy the most on TV are the commercials. Everything is wonderful, lasts forever, makes live better. If you buy this product, you will be much happier, just like these nice folks how are willing to share their experiences.
Really, nothing like a good commercial to boost your mood:)
I hope I'm not the only one around here how ever studied the great con artist of history.
In 1905, a Henri Lemoine, 81st Lecourbe St. (Paris), said he could create diamonds using nothing more than his cooking stove and electricity (15000 or 18000 amps, at 110V).
He manage to get about 70000 British Pounds (imagine how much was that in 1905) from Sir Julius Werner (president of Da Beers Corporation).
Even thou this is not related to the article, it did remind me of this fact. Yes, definitively sounds familiar.
Reference: Rolin, Babette: COMMENT ON VOLE SON PROCHAIN ( INVITATION A L'ESCROQUERIE )
Portuguese Title: Como Roubar o Próximo (A quinta Essêcia da Arte de Vender) I don't think this book ever got an ISBN.
As an ex-assembly coder myself, I do understand that we need to be pragmatic. Yes, it makes no sense to make the kind of optimization you mention on todays hardware. However, I can't take that as an excuse for the crappy code we see around.
I mean, how hard is to allocate just the memory you really need, instead of a huge chunk, just in case you MIGHT need it ? (Yes, I understand the cost of allocating memory, and you know that is not what I'm saying here).
How hard is to write GOOD code ? I don't mean optimizing it to the last bit. I mean quality, smart code ?
Unfortunately, I've come to a sad conclusion: most (and I really mean most) programmers these days aren't work the salt they eat.
That is why I give Beryl as an example. I know MAC had that for a long time, on much lower hardware, so it CAN be done. But Beryl, even tho not as much optimized, has good quality code (based on today standards). Just because there is no need to have something as optimized as the MAC interface, that is no excuse to have something as sloppy as Vista.
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I just checked with Netcraft, and they also confirmed it.
Specially if you consider that 65GB is actually 6.5% of the disk size.
On the other hand, that is the final filesystem space, and not the diskspace itself.
The actual size difference between base 10 and base 2 would be 99511627776. That is a 9% difference. Meaning that a 1TB disk (931.32GiB) is 9% smaller than a 1TiB disk.
This binary prefix nonsense is just another example of marketing-speak intruding into long established standards, in a way for the vendors to sell less for more.
My guess would be something like VM/SP on a zSeries-like server (probably older than the zSeries name brand).
Thank you for your excellent reply.
Yes, your answer is along the same line I've got from those priests I mentioned.
I also failed to mention that all the priests that agreed with me were Jesuits, which are pretty much the scholar branch the Catholic church (gross generalization, I know). But, in all fairness, 90% of the priests I've talked to were Jesuits.
I find it oddly depressing that, without all that symbology, people tend to simply ignore (or not accept) a religion. So, in the end, the symbols became more important than the message. Hence, these laws, hate and stupidity.
These days, true. But have you ever studied the history of the Roman Catholic Church ?
You know, I have a hard time grasping all this symbology stuff. I mean, isn't religion (any religion) about the message they try to transmit ? What does it matter if I set fire on a bible, koran, whatever ?
I was raised a catholic, and I always got into some good discussions with priests about the whole "son of god" and "virgin Mary" stuff. My point was always: why should it matter ? What is the merit of being a good person just because you are afraid of going to hell ? How is that any different than pointing a gun at someone's head, and making them going something good ?
Most strange of all, I did meet some priests that agreed with me at least twice.
Is nothing else, Jesus is a real historical person. Can you say the same thing about Xenu, Xemu whatever ?
So what you are saying is that "enforced freedom" is the way to go ?
As far as I'm concerned, the freedom to choose, including how your work is licensed, is the most important of all.
What piss me off is the change of rules during the game. If the copyright rule stated that a copyright was valid for 1000 years when Mickey was created, that would be ok by me (regarding Disney, not the rule). However, they changed the rules after that, to extend the copyright. That is wrong, plain and simple. Same for DMCA and plenty of other "trendy" regulations (the attacks on fair use, etc).
So yes, the copyright _idea_ is good. The way copyright works right now, or should I say the legislation regarding copyright, is flawed, and need to be replaced.
I'm glad someone else is aware of that.
The costs of the clinical trials for a new drug are simply astonishing. Since this all started because of something Brazil did, lemme give you some numbers from Brazil (for a single drug company I know): about US$ 150K for each patient, for each trial.
These are numbers I've seen first hand, some something I read on some obscure research.
had a beard, I would call her daddy...
Maybe you mean "tangible", and not "reliable and objective". There are many things we consider real that are not be defined reliably nor objectively. Art is something of that sort. What differentiates a common object from an art object ? It is pretty subjective, but never the less real. Yes, we can come to an agreement on what art is, but thats just it: an agreement, a convention. It is not reliable or objective on itself.
I'm not defending the "sixth sense" concept here. I'm just point out that our current conventions and methodologies might not be adequate to analyze it.
Lets please stress on the POWER5 part.
I have used AIX on both POWER and POWERPC based systems. It really, really sucks on POWERPC. Well, actually, the hardware sucks, and AIX just sucks as a side effect.
I remember using AIX since the good old POWER2 days (Risc/6000 320 and others). It was already rock solid on those days.
In that specific case, the killing part would be the crime.
In some other countries (Brazil among them), any public and offensive racist statements can lead to civil action/prosecution, or even jail time.
Example: If I own a shop, and I say to someone "Get out of here nigger" and force that person to exit my shop, I can be arrested.
That "minimal #" being 1. There is at least 1 company that allows you to do it. There might be others too, but this is the one I know (I'm not from USA, and don't play on the USA market).
So is saying that "universe" means "everything".
Thank you for reinforcing my point.
Btw, as I'm sure you know, I was not saying AN atom cannot be divided. I was just stating the meaning of the original word (or the original meaning of the word, if you like). Thus, my point.
Be sure that research the etymology of the word "atom" before you make statements like that, please.
atom = "something that cannot be divided"
And that is relevant to the keyboard being or not what limits a laptop size because ?
Considering the screen on my laptop is twice the size of its keyboard, I would say no.
Microsoft has knowledge and experience with UNIX since the 70s. I know someone how works at MS at a lab that has mostly Unix computers (Linux included).
Trust me, the REALLY know Unix.
Hummm, last Thursday, I think. You ?
Yes, but there are many settable parameters for LZMA. So, using LZMA Utils will often give better results than 7-Zip.
I agree with you on the importance of this article but
Yes, I know it is better than gzip, and it is also supported everywhere. But it is much worst than the "modern" compression algorithms.
I have been using LZMA for some time now for things I need to store longer, and getting good results. It is not on the list, but should give results a little bit better than RAR. Too bad it is only fast when you have a lot of memory.
For short/medium time storage, I use bzip2. Online compression, gzip (zlib), of course.
That is what I enjoy the most on TV are the commercials. Everything is wonderful, lasts forever, makes live better. If you buy this product, you will be much happier, just like these nice folks how are willing to share their experiences.
Really, nothing like a good commercial to boost your mood
I hope I'm not the only one around here how ever studied the great con artist of history.
In 1905, a Henri Lemoine, 81st Lecourbe St. (Paris), said he could create diamonds using nothing more than his cooking stove and electricity (15000 or 18000 amps, at 110V).
He manage to get about 70000 British Pounds (imagine how much was that in 1905) from Sir Julius Werner (president of Da Beers Corporation).
Even thou this is not related to the article, it did remind me of this fact. Yes, definitively sounds familiar.
Reference: Rolin, Babette: COMMENT ON VOLE SON PROCHAIN ( INVITATION A L'ESCROQUERIE )
Portuguese Title: Como Roubar o Próximo (A quinta Essêcia da Arte de Vender)
I don't think this book ever got an ISBN.
As an ex-assembly coder myself, I do understand that we need to be pragmatic.
Yes, it makes no sense to make the kind of optimization you mention on todays hardware.
However, I can't take that as an excuse for the crappy code we see around.
I mean, how hard is to allocate just the memory you really need, instead of a huge chunk, just in case you MIGHT need it ? (Yes, I understand the cost of allocating memory, and you know that is not what I'm saying here).
How hard is to write GOOD code ? I don't mean optimizing it to the last bit. I mean quality, smart code ?
Unfortunately, I've come to a sad conclusion: most (and I really mean most) programmers these days aren't work the salt they eat.
That is why I give Beryl as an example. I know MAC had that for a long time, on much lower hardware, so it CAN be done. But Beryl, even tho not as much optimized, has good quality code (based on today standards). Just because there is no need to have something as optimized as the MAC interface, that is no excuse to have something as sloppy as Vista.