Actually, I wanted to make a joke about the maximum file size overflow problem and I specified MiB to avoid arguments about 33554432 vs 32000000 bytes in the first place...
I wish people would stop thinking that hard drive manufacturers are the "source" of this so-called "problem". Digital communication speeds never used base 2, clock speeds didn't either.
People are simply stuck on terms like "Mebibyte" because they either don't want to accept the fact that mega is an SI prefix or because they don't like how the IEC units sound. Get over it.
Just because you don't like the term doesn't make it wrong. Highjacking SI prefixes and changing their meaning is wrong and has led to countless problems.
The promise of the cloud is that your storage and computing problems will be abstracted away from messy physical objects that you need to maintain, taken care of far way by other people. Well, it turns out that those other people need to buy a lot of servers.
That's because those other people are stupid. They just need to put everything in the cloud!
And time itself is also quite complex. Here's a quote from someone who explains time:
"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... time-y wimey... stuff." - The Doctor.
One way is to note that the immutable speed of light only applies to light in a vacuum. When light travels through a material, its effective speed is reduced.
The fact that there's a universal speed limit to the motion of anything through space and time, the speed of light, or c. Light itself will always move at this speed.
Except, you know, cases where we slowed down light itself. By a lot.
Over the last few weeks I have started to notice messages from various websites along the line of "It looks like you are using ad blocking software.
I also see those messages, but I don't use any ad blocking software. Java is disabled, plug-ins are disabled, javascript is enabled and cookies are limited to the same domain. Whoever wrote those "ad blocking detection" functions is an idiot.
There's still a big killer lurking out in space that can't be easily avoided: radiation.
Except underground, which is the obvious solution but people are too fixated on making housing above the ground.
Even on Earth, living underground would shield us from the extreme cold and extreme heat. That would be better for us and would require a lot less energy to warm us in the winter and cool us in the summer.
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Well, if you're still using MP3 in 2015 instead of another superior CODEC, there's no point in arguing with you about bitrates. ;-)
Apple also uses them and last time I checked, they still sold a metric* shitload of devices every day.
* I did that on purpose just to annoy people who can't acknowledge SI prefixes.
Actually, I wanted to make a joke about the maximum file size overflow problem and I specified MiB to avoid arguments about 33554432 vs 32000000 bytes in the first place...
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I wish people would stop thinking that hard drive manufacturers are the "source" of this so-called "problem". Digital communication speeds never used base 2, clock speeds didn't either.
People are simply stuck on terms like "Mebibyte" because they either don't want to accept the fact that mega is an SI prefix or because they don't like how the IEC units sound. Get over it.
You mean the same anonymity that allows anyone to check all transactions ever done on a Bitcoin* wallet?
* and other similar crypto-currencies as well.
Just because you don't like the term doesn't make it wrong. Highjacking SI prefixes and changing their meaning is wrong and has led to countless problems.
Ok, so they have a problem when going over 32 000 000 bytes.
I think the "32 megabytes—roughly the size of ten compressed music files" part is even more insulting.
How about staring at file offset 33554432? (assuming they mean 32MiB and not 32MB).
I'm going to make fake coupons that makes the grocery store give me 10 dollars for every item I buy!
That's because those other people are stupid. They just need to put everything in the cloud!
Well, it works for brocoli...
640Hz should be enough for everybody.
I heard about an inventor that made a machine that could shrink objects. Nearly lost his kids in his backyard, too.
It's misleading statistics like these that will leave Apple with a 291% market share in a few years.
And time itself is also quite complex. Here's a quote from someone who explains time:
"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but *actually* from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly... time-y wimey... stuff." - The Doctor.
Burn! /Michael Kelso
Except, you know, cases where we slowed down light itself. By a lot.
You can thank the Invisible Pink Unicorn, of course!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
And they're only adding that stuff in less than 1% of the cars they're planning to make. Pathetic.
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I also see those messages, but I don't use any ad blocking software. Java is disabled, plug-ins are disabled, javascript is enabled and cookies are limited to the same domain. Whoever wrote those "ad blocking detection" functions is an idiot.
Except underground, which is the obvious solution but people are too fixated on making housing above the ground.
Even on Earth, living underground would shield us from the extreme cold and extreme heat. That would be better for us and would require a lot less energy to warm us in the winter and cool us in the summer.