Perhaps you'd like to tell us whether a GB is base 2 or base 10 then.
You obviously aren't worth your SALT!
Remember kids, it DEPENDS!
Bandwidth? Base 10 -- always has been. ROM? Base 2 -- always has been -- and traditionally in bits, not bytes. RAM? Base 2, and bytes. Hard disk? Base 10 in the manufacturer's specs, base 2 in the OS display. Always has been that way, always will be. Floppies? Base 2 until you get to MB, where 1MB = 1000 base 2 KB (seriously). Clock speeds? Base 10, always has been, always will be. Flash? Who knows.
Isn't it great that we have such an easy, convenient system that is focused around the needs of us humans, and not the needs of the computers (who don't care in the slightest).
I had huge problems with high-bitrate VBR MP3s on the 3G iPod... never looked into it much after I re-encoded into AAC, but I don't think it had anything to do with DRM as a lower-bitrate MP3 actually sounded much better and the AAC versions don't have DRM anyway.
Well, Exchange does support IMAP, but usually Exchange admins disable it for the explicit purpose of preventing people from using clients other than Outlook.
What is behind your assumption that extinction by natural selection (as opposed, I assume, to human activity) is better for an ecosystem? Isn't evidence of ecological catastrophes of all sizes common in the fossil record?
Well, the bar association recommended enhanced disbarment, but the judge who served as the referee of the hearings asked the Supreme Court to go ahead with a permanent disbarment. She cited in part Thompson's bizarre actions during his own disbarment hearings.
I don't really think people "choose" whether to learn English or not learn English, as if they could push a button. I think these people have a lot of problems to deal with, the language being just one, and they don't have time to do whatever they want. Poverty is not so easy.
Personally, I don't think people are getting it -- the idea is to tear down the image of Microsoft as a savvy, omnipotent monolith by demonstrating that they can get totally taken by an ad agency.
Hi, your comment makes no sense. Many many many OS bugs cause crashes when an application does something that is correct according to the API. Complex applications very often expose OS bugs that nobody had noticed before.
Why do I give a crap about what kind of arithmetic the COMPUTER uses?
Come on, people! Revolt against the RAM/ROM manufacturers and their crazy standard. Storage and networking speeds have long been done in decimal.
The reason? Prefixes like "mega", "giga", etc aren't FOR the damn computer! They exist for the convenience of us poor numerically-challenged humans who have to operate the thing.
They're for when I see a directory listing
3437289432 somefile.dat
I can say "oh, somefile.dat is about 3.4 GB". The computer doesn't care about this sort of convenience because it does just fine with 3437289432. Very few of us can do the division to determine that somefile.dat is "really" 3.2 GB without a damn calculator. There is no reason for this nonsense!
Just a question -- do you seriously think that marketing is not effective against you? If so, that's sort of like trying to block a punch by refusing to believe in it.
Well, I'm anything but a hardcore Perl hacker -- just use it to pragmatically list some rubbish now and then -- and I've never even heard of compiling your own Perl.
In truth, it's NOT like GCJ in the least. GCJ is a relatively immature JVM built from an entirely different codebase than the Sun JVM. "Vendor" Perl and "real" Perl ought to be substantially the same thing.
Just like all the foundation-level vendor tools, I would expect Perl to be built correctly on any official distro release. I shouldn't need to build my own GCC, my own Python, my own X, or my own Perl.
Bandwidth isn't the issue so much as the migration to flash-based portable players. The iPod Touch for example is 32GB max with an 8GB option still available. When storage is that constrained many people will be space-limited and would be able to carry many fewer songs with FLAC.
As flash sizes increase and prices go down I wouldn't be surprised to see lossless formats crop up. At the present, though, the decision wouldn't make much sense for a large group of users.
I haven't seen any official source that was that specific -- even the notion that the 2.0.2 update was supposed to fix the 3G issues seems unsupported. Any references?
Well, it would have been nice if NEXTStep (aka Cocoa) had been written in Java, except that development started about ten years before Java 1.0 was released.
Keep in mind that the Apple/NEXT reverse takeover occurred in 1996, about when Java was showing up in web applets.
Just a heads-up... the ROC initials usually refer to the Republic of China, which is the government in control of Taiwan. The Chinese mainland is controlled by the People's Republic of China, initials PRC. This is a really, really big distiction.
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Not so. Maybe he could have "run" for an additional term, but "no person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice", period.
Perhaps you'd like to tell us whether a GB is base 2 or base 10 then.
You obviously aren't worth your SALT!
Remember kids, it DEPENDS!
Bandwidth? Base 10 -- always has been.
ROM? Base 2 -- always has been -- and traditionally in bits, not bytes.
RAM? Base 2, and bytes.
Hard disk? Base 10 in the manufacturer's specs, base 2 in the OS display. Always has been that way, always will be.
Floppies? Base 2 until you get to MB, where 1MB = 1000 base 2 KB (seriously).
Clock speeds? Base 10, always has been, always will be.
Flash? Who knows.
Isn't it great that we have such an easy, convenient system that is focused around the needs of us humans, and not the needs of the computers (who don't care in the slightest).
Dude, seriously, have you ever even heard of poker? You don't seem to know much about the game.
I had huge problems with high-bitrate VBR MP3s on the 3G iPod... never looked into it much after I re-encoded into AAC, but I don't think it had anything to do with DRM as a lower-bitrate MP3 actually sounded much better and the AAC versions don't have DRM anyway.
a habit that is proven to make people stupid, obedient, and ignorant
Let's see that proof.
I'm curious as to the reason you consider IMAP to be broken. POP, of course, may be easier to implement but is almost completely useless.
Well, Exchange does support IMAP, but usually Exchange admins disable it for the explicit purpose of preventing people from using clients other than Outlook.
What is behind your assumption that extinction by natural selection (as opposed, I assume, to human activity) is better for an ecosystem? Isn't evidence of ecological catastrophes of all sizes common in the fossil record?
Well, the bar association recommended enhanced disbarment, but the judge who served as the referee of the hearings asked the Supreme Court to go ahead with a permanent disbarment. She cited in part Thompson's bizarre actions during his own disbarment hearings.
I don't really think people "choose" whether to learn English or not learn English, as if they could push a button. I think these people have a lot of problems to deal with, the language being just one, and they don't have time to do whatever they want. Poverty is not so easy.
Personally, I don't think people are getting it -- the idea is to tear down the image of Microsoft as a savvy, omnipotent monolith by demonstrating that they can get totally taken by an ad agency.
Hi, your comment makes no sense. Many many many OS bugs cause crashes when an application does something that is correct according to the API. Complex applications very often expose OS bugs that nobody had noticed before.
I'm quite certain that ethics do not apply to rocks of any size, even if they are big enough rocks to be rounded by their own gravity.
Why do I give a crap about what kind of arithmetic the COMPUTER uses?
Come on, people! Revolt against the RAM/ROM manufacturers and their crazy standard. Storage and networking speeds have long been done in decimal.
The reason? Prefixes like "mega", "giga", etc aren't FOR the damn computer! They exist for the convenience of us poor numerically-challenged humans who have to operate the thing.
They're for when I see a directory listing
3437289432 somefile.dat
I can say "oh, somefile.dat is about 3.4 GB". The computer doesn't care about this sort of convenience because it does just fine with
3437289432. Very few of us can do the division to determine that somefile.dat is "really" 3.2 GB without a damn calculator. There is no reason for this nonsense!
Just a question -- do you seriously think that marketing is not effective against you? If so, that's sort of like trying to block a punch by refusing to believe in it.
Why does China need more than one timezone? Who cares what the numbers on the clock say?
The numbers on the clock are stupidly arbitrary anyway -- few people wake up at 0:00.
Well, I'm anything but a hardcore Perl hacker -- just use it to pragmatically list some rubbish now and then -- and I've never even heard of compiling your own Perl.
In truth, it's NOT like GCJ in the least. GCJ is a relatively immature JVM built from an entirely different codebase than the Sun JVM. "Vendor" Perl and "real" Perl ought to be substantially the same thing.
Just like all the foundation-level vendor tools, I would expect Perl to be built correctly on any official distro release. I shouldn't need to build my own GCC, my own Python, my own X, or my own Perl.
Bandwidth isn't the issue so much as the migration to flash-based portable players. The iPod Touch for example is 32GB max with an 8GB option still available. When storage is that constrained many people will be space-limited and would be able to carry many fewer songs with FLAC.
As flash sizes increase and prices go down I wouldn't be surprised to see lossless formats crop up. At the present, though, the decision wouldn't make much sense for a large group of users.
2.0.2 didn't do anything for my slow typing bug. Simply rebooting makes the problem better for a while, though.
I haven't seen any official source that was that specific -- even the notion that the 2.0.2 update was supposed to fix the 3G issues seems unsupported. Any references?
What about cropping?
Well, it would have been nice if NEXTStep (aka Cocoa) had been written in Java, except that development started about ten years before Java 1.0 was released.
Keep in mind that the Apple/NEXT reverse takeover occurred in 1996, about when Java was showing up in web applets.
Maybe we can discuss how obnoxious the white-on-green text is? Please?
Nah, I think we've all pretty much settled on the correct answers to those (vi, Firefox, KDE, and Picard of course).
Just a heads-up... the ROC initials usually refer to the Republic of China, which is the government in control of Taiwan. The Chinese mainland is controlled by the People's Republic of China, initials PRC. This is a really, really big distiction.