It would take over 500 years to fill a 64 bit filesystem written at 1GB/sec (and of course 500 years to read it back again). 64 bits is already an impossibly large figure. There's absolutely nothing special or clever whatsoever about doubling the size of your pointers aside from using up more disk space for all the metadata.
I guess that depends on how big your cluster sizes are...
9 1/2 Ninjas - Imagine a chick-flick mixed with kung-fu movie trying hard to be funny. Then add an ANNOYING actress who cannot act her way out of a wet paper bag.
The Secret Sex Lives of Romeo and Juliet - A racy version of Romeo and Juliet with "Laugh-In" style jokes interjected at odd points, with obviously cut-in sex scenes that do not resemble the people on film. Worst porn movie EVER.
Barbara the Barbarian - I showed this to a group and half of them fell asleep.
Sextette - Mae West in her seventies trying to play a sexy lead acress. This will make your skin crawl.
And the one I want to see:
The Day the Clown Cried - The lost classic of badfilm. The lowest in bad taste. Imagine a movie about a clown who is forced to lead children into the gas chamber at Auchwitz. Have all of the "Jewish children" played by Swedish kids. Have glaring problems with set and art direction. Then have it directed by and starring Jerry Lewis. OH - MY - GOD!
"Something must be done! This is 'something', therefore we must do it!"
Just because it is an idea, it does not mean it is a good idea.
This sort of "sender pays" system will kill mailing lists. Most people do not have control enough of their mail host to whitelist addresses for this sort of system. In order to send the volume needed for large mailing lists the mailing list operators will need to add huge amounts of additional hardware.
No amount of advertising is going to solve the real problems with this sort of system. You have to have solutions that do not hinder sending real mail. spf is a better step in the right direction.
The courts did not think that the RIAA would be this sleezy. Hopefully they will learn from this and give them *NO* slack in the future. Since they never defined what was to be donated, they got all that worthless junk that goes into the cutout bins. I am surprised that they did not send a few John Ashcroft or orin Hatch albums along to increase the pain level. (Or maybe that was too much even for them.)
As for what to do with all these worthless crappy CDs...
Remember the old "Star Trek disc guns" they sold back in the 70s? They need to make a few that shoot CDs hard and fast. Then line up the RIAA lawyers and executives and have a little target practice.
Of course, they were never very accurate. But they provided plenty of ammo.
Harlan's books are rarely posted to alt.binaries.ebooks. The only times i have seen it happen is after he has one of his legendary tanrums.
If he really wants to do justice to the authors whos work does get posted to that group, he should work to see that their work remains in print and available in local bookshops.
Media tie-ins and "books in the world of famous author by someone you never heard of" do more harm to real authors than e-books ever will. The less you can find real authors in your local bookstore, the more people will turn to e-books.
Pacific Solutions used to have a real good show. It ended a month or two ago. their archives are not longer available, it seems.
Computer Bits also used to have a good show. They shut down about a year ago, with similar lack of archives.
Part of the problem is that it takes a great deal of effort to produce a show that only a handful of people can listen to due to bandwidth restrictions. Hard to keep up a weekly program if your stream maxes out at 20-30 listeners.
BTW, both of those shows started on AM radio, but lost their stations due to having to pay to get airtime. (Not to mention that fewer and fewer talk stations exists that are non-political.)
I can understand people not liking the new Nautilus. It is a pain to use.
When it was introduced, they said "you will get used to it".
Well, I have been using it and I still do not like it.
I have a lot of data that gets moved and sorted from location to location. If you have just a few bins to sort into, it is not too bad. If you are trying to sort things into about 200+ directories using drop and drag, the spacial system becomes unweildy quite quickly.
Hopefully they will realize that this is a bad idea and fix it. (And while they are at it they need to fix gst-thumbnail from going into infinite loops and eating all the cpu every once in a while.)
There are some nice things in 2.6. Nautilus is not one of them.
Most of the problems of cd rot can be traced to the stickers used for labels, not the cds themselves.
I have seen post-it-notes pull the foil off older cheap cd-rs.
I saw one study a while back that showed that the biggest problem was the labels that people were putting on burned cdrs. They cause damage to the adhesive holding the foil to the media. It would not surprise me if it did.
Commercial cds (including data cds) are a different story. I have some incredibly old cds going back to the 80s. They all work fine.
DVDs tend to have a layer of plastic between the foil and the outside. (Probably just for this problem.) Of couse, that may just be the good brands...
Much of this story is standard media scare/hype. ("If you don't listen to us YOUR DATA COULD DIE!") It is based on a real problem though.
My la Crosse Technology watch is prior art. It is a watch that sets itself off the atomic clock in Colorado.
It has one button. Hold it for 3 second and you can set time zone. Hold it for eight seconds and you can change display format and daylight savings time settings. Hold it longer and it will force a resync to the time signal if it can find it.
These obvious patents are getting totally out of control. I would patent the idea of totally obvious patents, but that would be too obvious. (And recursive.)
No e-mail client should ever request content from a remote server and/or load images without a direct action by the user.
Most porn spam loads images via html image tags or some other remote mechanism. (Usually with a web bug to figure out which address downloaded it so they can send you more spam.)
If the user has an e-mail client configured by default to download contact automatically then it needs to be corrected. That is the fault of their IS/IT department or whoever ordered the IS/IT department to use that client. I don't even think Outlook is that stupid anymore.
The other problem is that there are a whole lot of people who are unable or unwilling to just grow the hell up. So you get e-mail that describes sex. So what? Big deal! Sex is a part of life. Just delete it and move on.
But instead, these growth stunted pod people want to obscess over that part of life that they have not learned to accept. Instead of blaming themselves and their upbringing (or lack thereof) they are going to take it out on ANYONE else.
The best thing to do to avoid such legal problems is find out who these people are in your company and deny them ANY outside e-mail whatsoever until they can behave like a grownup.
Actually the worldwide flood of Noah was disproven at least 100 years ago. (Further back than that if you count Leonardo Divinci's treatise on the motion of water.)
There are very ancient and fragile geological structures that would have been destroyed by a flood.
But then the claims in the Bible for the worldwide flood as absurd on its face. If you calculate how many animals there are and the time needed to load them into the ark in the period of time described, they would be going so fast they would be a fine paste at the back end. (Not that they would fit.)
Creationists have been pushing the ark myth and various other Biblical claims for a while now. There is plenty of physical evidence that shows that they are wrong.
But faith overrides reason.
The "hatred" you are precieving is that of having to deal with a large group of supposedly educated people who will not listen to reasoned arguments or physical evidence. You insist on making claims that are shown over and over to be without merit, yet you insist on claiming that there is no evidence refuting them.
talk.origins on usenet has been dealing with the same arguments over and over for more than 10 years.
The Creationists have yet to be able to present any sort of theory that has any predictive value about the world. Their excuse is "God did it". No evidence. Nothing but contradictory religious writings.
It is not hatred, it is frustration. Frustration with the willfully ignorant. People who are willing to believe Creationists who have been shown over and over to be lying and ignore Scientists who have physical evidence showing them that they are wrong.
Seeing people tell the same lies over and over just starts to get you pissed off after a while.
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So do the hackers get more experience points for killing the higher level servers or just better treasure values?
And how many points for the marketdroid that came up with this idea in the first place?
I guess that depends on how big your cluster sizes are...
They will replace the Atlas rocket with the Estes rocket.
Looks about the same as long as you don't look close and lack depth perception.
The question I have is what was used to clear the brush under the antennas.
The problem could be something other than the radiation, it could be the nasty chemicals used to keep the plants from taking over the tower.
This has been found to be a problem with powerlines in some cases, it could be part of the problem here as well.
The first thing that comes to mind is not always the real cause of the problem.
More come to mind...
9 1/2 Ninjas - Imagine a chick-flick mixed with kung-fu movie trying hard to be funny. Then add an ANNOYING actress who cannot act her way out of a wet paper bag.
The Secret Sex Lives of Romeo and Juliet - A racy version of Romeo and Juliet with "Laugh-In" style jokes interjected at odd points, with obviously cut-in sex scenes that do not resemble the people on film. Worst porn movie EVER.
Barbara the Barbarian - I showed this to a group and half of them fell asleep.
Sextette - Mae West in her seventies trying to play a sexy lead acress. This will make your skin crawl.
And the one I want to see:
The Day the Clown Cried - The lost classic of badfilm. The lowest in bad taste. Imagine a movie about a clown who is forced to lead children into the gas chamber at Auchwitz. Have all of the "Jewish children" played by Swedish kids. Have glaring problems with set and art direction. Then have it directed by and starring Jerry Lewis. OH - MY - GOD!
I can think of a number of BAD films...
The Attack of the the eye creatures (yes, it is spelled like that in the title of the film!)
They Saved Hitler's Brain (day to night ot day to night in a single driving scene)
Transylvania 6-5000 (Embarasing for all involved)
Mission to Mars (One of the most derivative movies I have seen in a long time.)
Kingdom of the Spiders (Not just because it had William Shatner. It also had one of the worst plot resolutions I had seen in a while.)
Robot Monster (A gorilla in a diving helmet?)
Night of the Lepus ("I'm a Doctor, not a giant rabbit!")
There are many more...
I guess that they really are Sauron.
"One OS to rule them all and in the darkness bind them."
Maybe it is REALLY hard to hide something going Mach 10...
I wonder if they are using the Ossilation Overthruster technology.
Rumsfeld: "Where are we going?"
Techs: "Mach 10"
Rumsfeld: "When are we going?"
Techs: "Real soon!"
More like the origins of the sendmail.cf file.
As always, Invader Zim has the answer:
Invader Zim: Why would you convert your entire planet into a spaceship?
Projected head: Because it was COOL!
"Something must be done! This is 'something', therefore we must do it!"
Just because it is an idea, it does not mean it is a good idea.
This sort of "sender pays" system will kill mailing lists. Most people do not have control enough of their mail host to whitelist addresses for this sort of system. In order to send the volume needed for large mailing lists the mailing list operators will need to add huge amounts of additional hardware.
No amount of advertising is going to solve the real problems with this sort of system. You have to have solutions that do not hinder sending real mail. spf is a better step in the right direction.
The courts did not think that the RIAA would be this sleezy. Hopefully they will learn from this and give them *NO* slack in the future. Since they never defined what was to be donated, they got all that worthless junk that goes into the cutout bins. I am surprised that they did not send a few John Ashcroft or orin Hatch albums along to increase the pain level. (Or maybe that was too much even for them.)
As for what to do with all these worthless crappy CDs...
Remember the old "Star Trek disc guns" they sold back in the 70s? They need to make a few that shoot CDs hard and fast. Then line up the RIAA lawyers and executives and have a little target practice.
Of course, they were never very accurate. But they provided plenty of ammo.
I am just wondering if Thunderbird is going to have a ripple effect.
Harlan's books are rarely posted to alt.binaries.ebooks. The only times i have seen it happen is after he has one of his legendary tanrums.
If he really wants to do justice to the authors whos work does get posted to that group, he should work to see that their work remains in print and available in local bookshops.
Media tie-ins and "books in the world of famous author by someone you never heard of" do more harm to real authors than e-books ever will. The less you can find real authors in your local bookstore, the more people will turn to e-books.
Computer Bits also used to have a good show. They shut down about a year ago, with similar lack of archives.
Part of the problem is that it takes a great deal of effort to produce a show that only a handful of people can listen to due to bandwidth restrictions. Hard to keep up a weekly program if your stream maxes out at 20-30 listeners.
BTW, both of those shows started on AM radio, but lost their stations due to having to pay to get airtime. (Not to mention that fewer and fewer talk stations exists that are non-political.)
And here I thought that only trademark lawyers were that easily confused...
So should we refer to this as AdTInetics or SCOintology?
is a dial for playing Tempest.
Using the keyboard is just not the same.
I am expecting the flood of spam for "Natural Nano Bodybuilding Pills".
Who would have thought that our junkmail filters will need to be programmed to filter out "nano nano".
I can understand people not liking the new Nautilus. It is a pain to use.
When it was introduced, they said "you will get used to it".
Well, I have been using it and I still do not like it.
I have a lot of data that gets moved and sorted from location to location. If you have just a few bins to sort into, it is not too bad. If you are trying to sort things into about 200+ directories using drop and drag, the spacial system becomes unweildy quite quickly.
Hopefully they will realize that this is a bad idea and fix it. (And while they are at it they need to fix gst-thumbnail from going into infinite loops and eating all the cpu every once in a while.)
There are some nice things in 2.6. Nautilus is not one of them.
Most of the problems of cd rot can be traced to the stickers used for labels, not the cds themselves.
I have seen post-it-notes pull the foil off older cheap cd-rs.
I saw one study a while back that showed that the biggest problem was the labels that people were putting on burned cdrs. They cause damage to the adhesive holding the foil to the media. It would not surprise me if it did.
Commercial cds (including data cds) are a different story. I have some incredibly old cds going back to the 80s. They all work fine.
DVDs tend to have a layer of plastic between the foil and the outside. (Probably just for this problem.) Of couse, that may just be the good brands...
Much of this story is standard media scare/hype. ("If you don't listen to us YOUR DATA COULD DIE!") It is based on a real problem though.
I am waiting for the first time they blow the breakers on the circuit that handles their security computer.
What happens? Does the system fail to "everything is locked"?
This sounds like a RISKS article waiting to happen.
My la Crosse Technology watch is prior art. It is a watch that sets itself off the atomic clock in Colorado.
It has one button. Hold it for 3 second and you can set time zone. Hold it for eight seconds and you can change display format and daylight savings time settings. Hold it longer and it will force a resync to the time signal if it can find it.
These obvious patents are getting totally out of control. I would patent the idea of totally obvious patents, but that would be too obvious. (And recursive.)
No e-mail client should ever request content from a remote server and/or load images without a direct action by the user.
Most porn spam loads images via html image tags or some other remote mechanism. (Usually with a web bug to figure out which address downloaded it so they can send you more spam.)
If the user has an e-mail client configured by default to download contact automatically then it needs to be corrected. That is the fault of their IS/IT department or whoever ordered the IS/IT department to use that client. I don't even think Outlook is that stupid anymore.
The other problem is that there are a whole lot of people who are unable or unwilling to just grow the hell up. So you get e-mail that describes sex. So what? Big deal! Sex is a part of life. Just delete it and move on.
But instead, these growth stunted pod people want to obscess over that part of life that they have not learned to accept. Instead of blaming themselves and their upbringing (or lack thereof) they are going to take it out on ANYONE else.
The best thing to do to avoid such legal problems is find out who these people are in your company and deny them ANY outside e-mail whatsoever until they can behave like a grownup.
Actually the worldwide flood of Noah was disproven at least 100 years ago. (Further back than that if you count Leonardo Divinci's treatise on the motion of water.)
There are very ancient and fragile geological structures that would have been destroyed by a flood.
But then the claims in the Bible for the worldwide flood as absurd on its face. If you calculate how many animals there are and the time needed to load them into the ark in the period of time described, they would be going so fast they would be a fine paste at the back end. (Not that they would fit.)
Creationists have been pushing the ark myth and various other Biblical claims for a while now. There is plenty of physical evidence that shows that they are wrong.
But faith overrides reason.
The "hatred" you are precieving is that of having to deal with a large group of supposedly educated people who will not listen to reasoned arguments or physical evidence. You insist on making claims that are shown over and over to be without merit, yet you insist on claiming that there is no evidence refuting them.
talk.origins on usenet has been dealing with the same arguments over and over for more than 10 years.
The Creationists have yet to be able to present any sort of theory that has any predictive value about the world. Their excuse is "God did it". No evidence. Nothing but contradictory religious writings.
It is not hatred, it is frustration. Frustration with the willfully ignorant. People who are willing to believe Creationists who have been shown over and over to be lying and ignore Scientists who have physical evidence showing them that they are wrong.
Seeing people tell the same lies over and over just starts to get you pissed off after a while.