O really? What about bandwidth measured in kilobytes per second? Do you really think that is *ever* measured in powers of two by anybody? Of course not.
At best, the units depend on the context. And the ONLY context that has ever made any sense for power-of-two units is RAM memory. That's it.
Doesn't look like this "modern" solid state device has a size anywhere near an even power of two (but it is suspiciously close to an even multiple of 1e9). So given that your assertion is wrong, why should I suffer the hassle of dealing with a variety of different power-of-two multipliers, when we live with a decimal number system?
No, because as I have already pointed out, blocks of 2^9 have no relevance whatsoever to units of 2^20, 2^30 or 2^40. I can't believe how many people fail to comprehend this simple mathematical fact.
Check your math. You've just confused yourself, since floppy "Megabytes" are an even more stupid unit equal to 1024*1000, which is not 2^20.. This floppy-specific "megabyte" is not used for anything else on planet earth, and is almost certainly not what you were assuming to be the "correct" megabyte for storage.
What if your filesystem has 1GB block groups, 4MB erase blocks, etc?
Since, like 99.9999% of the population, I'm not a file system developer, I have no idea what the sizes of such implementation details of any of the file systems in any of my devices are. Things like that simply aren't visible or relevant to the end user.
What is relevant to me are things like how many more 600 MB videos will fit onto my partition with 9 GB of free space. If I had measured those with MiB and GiB, I would need a calculator to figure it out.
There is absolutely no power-of-two dependency above the block size, which is typically in the range of 2^9 to 2^`12. As I said, this makes measuring things in 2^20, 2^30 and 2^40 completely useless, especially when you try to mix two or more of those non-decimal multipliers.
Naming those silly multipliers exactly the same as previously established decimal magnitudes is just icing on the stupidity cake.
No, you just think that because some applications on some OSes report the size in asinine GiB units, notwithstanding the fact that no persistent storage device ever made has had any natural relation to 2^20, 2^30, etc.
It's like if the home center sold you boards that are actually 2 inches by 4 inches in size, but they also gave you a ruler with bogus extra-large inches that made it look like 1.5 X 3.5. (The same rulers would have bogus feet that have slightly more than 12 of those bogus inches, so a calculator would necessary for nearly every measurement.)
SpaceX has already flown Falcon 9s with 3D printed engine parts, with the FAA's knowledge and approval.
You forgot to mention that's with nobody on board the vehicle, with miles of buffer zone around the launch pad, and with a trajectory deliberately directed over empty ocean. And if the rocket only explodes about 1% of the time, that's considered "good".
That interval seems like a total waste of oil. I have an old vehicle for hauling stuff that gets driven about 1000km/year, and I might change the oil every five years. I know that's probably "bad", but the engine hasn't broken yet. In fact, I think that the only work I've ever had done on the engine over almost 20 years is change out the timing belt (at twice the recommended age, but still below the mileage limit). I do keep it in a garage and always run it until it's thoroughly warmed up.
And just how much time does it take to feather a wind mill? Surely that should be nearly instantaneous, like an airplane propeller? Or do they have to send out a technician to climb up and turn a big wheel to feather the vanes?
They have to send a guy in a red shirt up an access tube so that he can reverse the polarity. There are usually plenty of sparks involved.
When I was first taught to code in FORTRAN, we were told that we really needed to create a flow chart detailing every statement before writing any code. We also needed to start every line in column 8, and variable types were determined by the first letter of their name.
Those days are long gone, and we now have languages with features that allow us to directly transcribe our ideas without intermediate formats (yes, LISP always allowed that from day 1, yada yada).
I find that flow charts still have some usefulness on occasion, but only as a high-level planning tool. I will sometimes write up a flow chart with a dozen boxes to define the rough flow of a complex algorithm, but it might take a thousand lines of code to actually complete the final implementation. A flow chart that had enough detail to mechanically translate to code would look like an incomprehensible pile of spaghetti; not very useful compared to well-formated code.
San Francisco police commander Robert O'Sullivan is in favor of the legislation, fearing the robots could harm children, the elderly, and those with limited mobility.
That's obvious. Robots, being machines, have no empathy. Like any successful predator, they are going to first target those vulnerable individuals who get separated from the main herd, regardless of the reason.
That can be done for any car - how do you think dealers make a new key when you misplace your original keys?
It may make sense to have that capability. But there's no reason for the whole database to be replicated anywhere outside of some secure vault within Jeep's corporate headquarters in Italy. Dealers should send authenticated individual queries to the central system as needed.
Err....and just why can't they get the education and skills needed to get a job?
Because the real world isn't Lake Wobegon, where "all of the children are above average".
In the future, nor will all of the children be better than the average automated replacement. (The replacements won't be dumb machines as they were in the past; for the given task they'll be as intelligent as the humans). Employing those people won't make economic sense.
I want one of those metal tablets that dispenses the multi-layered Radio Shack invoices. Then I can kill time by scribbling down the names, addresses and phone numbers of my family and friends over and over again.
It's clear that the headline is in fact about "emotional response", and it is completely appropriate. Everyone knows that the computers will only get better, and that human go players are in fact being left in the dust, starting today.
You need to stop focusing on literal interpretation and look at the context of the situation before getting all agitated about word choices.
Nevertheless, people have given up trying to beat computers at chess. People simply aren't going to catch up by making incremental improvements over the span of centuries, and the same thing is going to happen with go.
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By your logic, computers should be showing all computational results in binary, because that's how they work inside.
Then WHY IN THE HELL should I use bizarre units for something I can't see?
O really? What about bandwidth measured in kilobytes per second? Do you really think that is *ever* measured in powers of two by anybody? Of course not.
At best, the units depend on the context. And the ONLY context that has ever made any sense for power-of-two units is RAM memory. That's it.
Checking closest SSD I have handy:
$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 14.9 GiB, 16013942784 bytes, 31277232 sectors
Doesn't look like this "modern" solid state device has a size anywhere near an even power of two (but it is suspiciously close to an even multiple of 1e9). So given that your assertion is wrong, why should I suffer the hassle of dealing with a variety of different power-of-two multipliers, when we live with a decimal number system?
No, because as I have already pointed out, blocks of 2^9 have no relevance whatsoever to units of 2^20, 2^30 or 2^40. I can't believe how many people fail to comprehend this simple mathematical fact.
Check your math. You've just confused yourself, since floppy "Megabytes" are an even more stupid unit equal to 1024*1000, which is not 2^20.. This floppy-specific "megabyte" is not used for anything else on planet earth, and is almost certainly not what you were assuming to be the "correct" megabyte for storage.
So thanks for helping me to prove my point.
What if your filesystem has 1GB block groups, 4MB erase blocks, etc?
Since, like 99.9999% of the population, I'm not a file system developer, I have no idea what the sizes of such implementation details of any of the file systems in any of my devices are. Things like that simply aren't visible or relevant to the end user.
What is relevant to me are things like how many more 600 MB videos will fit onto my partition with 9 GB of free space. If I had measured those with MiB and GiB, I would need a calculator to figure it out.
There is absolutely no power-of-two dependency above the block size, which is typically in the range of 2^9 to 2^`12. As I said, this makes measuring things in 2^20, 2^30 and 2^40 completely useless, especially when you try to mix two or more of those non-decimal multipliers.
Naming those silly multipliers exactly the same as previously established decimal magnitudes is just icing on the stupidity cake.
No, you just think that because some applications on some OSes report the size in asinine GiB units, notwithstanding the fact that no persistent storage device ever made has had any natural relation to 2^20, 2^30, etc.
It's like if the home center sold you boards that are actually 2 inches by 4 inches in size, but they also gave you a ruler with bogus extra-large inches that made it look like 1.5 X 3.5. (The same rulers would have bogus feet that have slightly more than 12 of those bogus inches, so a calculator would necessary for nearly every measurement.)
because why?
So that the cashier enters the correct code, whether it's an expensive organic avocado or a somewhat less expensive regular avocado.
SpaceX has already flown Falcon 9s with 3D printed engine parts, with the FAA's knowledge and approval.
You forgot to mention that's with nobody on board the vehicle, with miles of buffer zone around the launch pad, and with a trajectory deliberately directed over empty ocean. And if the rocket only explodes about 1% of the time, that's considered "good".
That interval seems like a total waste of oil. I have an old vehicle for hauling stuff that gets driven about 1000km/year, and I might change the oil every five years. I know that's probably "bad", but the engine hasn't broken yet. In fact, I think that the only work I've ever had done on the engine over almost 20 years is change out the timing belt (at twice the recommended age, but still below the mileage limit). I do keep it in a garage and always run it until it's thoroughly warmed up.
Why would anyone cooperate with their prosecution?
Because prosecutors use a certain tactic so often, they named a whole category of games after it: the Prisoner's Dilemma.
And just how much time does it take to feather a wind mill? Surely that should be nearly instantaneous, like an airplane propeller? Or do they have to send out a technician to climb up and turn a big wheel to feather the vanes?
They have to send a guy in a red shirt up an access tube so that he can reverse the polarity. There are usually plenty of sparks involved.
Well, it seems that decades of controversy over 4 vs 8 spaces for indents has completely overridden my memory on that point.
When I was first taught to code in FORTRAN, we were told that we really needed to create a flow chart detailing every statement before writing any code. We also needed to start every line in column 8, and variable types were determined by the first letter of their name.
Those days are long gone, and we now have languages with features that allow us to directly transcribe our ideas without intermediate formats (yes, LISP always allowed that from day 1, yada yada).
I find that flow charts still have some usefulness on occasion, but only as a high-level planning tool. I will sometimes write up a flow chart with a dozen boxes to define the rough flow of a complex algorithm, but it might take a thousand lines of code to actually complete the final implementation. A flow chart that had enough detail to mechanically translate to code would look like an incomprehensible pile of spaghetti; not very useful compared to well-formated code.
San Francisco police commander Robert O'Sullivan is in favor of the legislation, fearing the robots could harm children, the elderly, and those with limited mobility.
That's obvious. Robots, being machines, have no empathy. Like any successful predator, they are going to first target those vulnerable individuals who get separated from the main herd, regardless of the reason.
I don't know who San Francisco streets are designed for, but it's certainly not people.
They were clearly designed for one thing only: Enabling Steve McQueen to take his Mustang GT airborne at each and every intersection.
That can be done for any car - how do you think dealers make a new key when you misplace your original keys?
It may make sense to have that capability. But there's no reason for the whole database to be replicated anywhere outside of some secure vault within Jeep's corporate headquarters in Italy. Dealers should send authenticated individual queries to the central system as needed.
Err....and just why can't they get the education and skills needed to get a job?
Because the real world isn't Lake Wobegon, where "all of the children are above average".
In the future, nor will all of the children be better than the average automated replacement. (The replacements won't be dumb machines as they were in the past; for the given task they'll be as intelligent as the humans). Employing those people won't make economic sense.
Replacing the inventor of JavaScript with someone from marketing made the world a better place.
Given some of the Javascript design choices that web developers have been forever saddled with, your statement may not be as ironic as you intended
I want one of those metal tablets that dispenses the multi-layered Radio Shack invoices. Then I can kill time by scribbling down the names, addresses and phone numbers of my family and friends over and over again.
It's clear that the headline is in fact about "emotional response", and it is completely appropriate. Everyone knows that the computers will only get better, and that human go players are in fact being left in the dust, starting today.
You need to stop focusing on literal interpretation and look at the context of the situation before getting all agitated about word choices.
Nevertheless, people have given up trying to beat computers at chess. People simply aren't going to catch up by making incremental improvements over the span of centuries, and the same thing is going to happen with go.
The marginal cost to the cable company of providing you with TV service is exactly $0.
So the cable companies are pirating all of their content? It would seem that they are even more evil than we thought.