I can use a half, two thirds or a quarter when I'm doubling or halving recipes, something which is somewhat more convenient with non-metric measures.
BS.
Quick: What's 2/3 of 1-3/4 cups?
I've switched to using a digital scale instead of volume measurements whenever I can for cooking (and mixing drinks). I leave it set to grams, and it's always easier to do scaling math like that with grams than with imperial units. (Bonus: no measuring cups to wash, either)
If I was measuring flour in the case above, my recipe would say 245g. 2/3 of that is 163, which I can do in my head in about 3 seconds. I don't even feel like thinking about finding the least common denominator to solve it your way.
Most of the time, the vast majority of Microsoft's convoluted API structure fields are boilerplate that nobody uses (but nevertheless have to be filled in with long boilerplate ALL_CAPS_CONSTANT_NAMES that blow up each API call into a whole paragraph of source code).
16KB storage: Apple is really screwing with the customer now.
The worst part is that instead of using sockets like in the Apple II, for the iPad they soldered down the memory DIPs and omitted any kind of expansion bus slots, so you can't upgrade.
Yucca Mountain was designed to store wastes AFTER they had been immobilized and put in long-term storage casks.
The problem here is that they haven't even started that first step. This is still millions of gallons of raw liquid waste, in a state that is totally unsuitable for interstate transport and burial. If Yucca Mountain were up and running today, it wouldn't help this problem one bit.
If they actually took the initiative to solidify this waste now and put it in casks, they could safely store it on site for decades or centuries, just like they're currently doing with commercial reactor waste. They don't need something like Yucca Mountain to address the current risks.
have you seen the HTML that gets generated from TeXInfo?
Yes. It's usually broken up into a massive hierarchy with a couple of sentences per page. You'll get cramps clicking on the navigation links while searching for the particular thing you need to find like a needle in a haystack.
Plain old man pages (especially when nicely rendered in KDE's Konqueror web browser by typing "#program-name" into the URL box) are almost invariably superior to the corresponding Texinfo docs converted to html.
In this story, he's appealing to bureaucracy to fix a dispute in a heavily regulated corner of IP law (which itself is a government interference in the free market).
Yeah. He wants the government to confiscate that IP from its owner under threat of force, and then give it to himself as an entitlement.
That make him a big, fat HYPOCRITE.
Whether you define the market where that value is traded as "free" is irrelevant. Money is money.
What's the sector size of a data CD? hard disk? floppy? 2000, 4000 and 500 bytes? Err, no.
What's that got to do with anything? "Sectors" are an internal file system detail, hidden from the end user. When was the last time you had to worry about the difference between a file size and the next sector boundary? If you think you're clever enough to handle that, did you remember take the associated file system metadata into account? How many sectors does the metadata use for a given file? Did Windows Explorer report that? These boundaries are often 4096 bytes. What measurement system uses 4096 as a base? What's the suffix for that? Quick, how many sectors are in a GiB?
Sectors are useless, and binary units, which don't even tell you how many sectors you're using, don't change that.
If something (including real estate, natural resources, physical objects, etc) isn't already owned by a private party, it's generally owned or controlled by the government, and that's who you'd buy it from.
You should be happy that the government makes fresh domain names available for only a couple of bucks. It's like the old days when they used to dole out homesteads and railroad right-of-way almost free of charge.
There are over 8 billion 7-letter.com domain names in existence, the vast majority of which are still available and not already the private property of someone else. He's free to choose any of those, at very reasonable market prices.
That is completely incorrect. Outside of a few misguided file manager utilities from Microsoft and other vendors, binary units are not commonly used in computers to specify anything other than random access solid state memory. They have not been used to specify the size of optical disks, floppy disks, network bandwidth, I/O bandwidth, or for the past few decades (if ever), mass storage sizes.
Why is it used for solid state memory? Because size increments are almost always done by doubling the size of the bit array. But no other part of a computer expands in that fashion.
Why is it not used for anything else? Because dealing with pseudo-binary based arithmetic is just about as convenient as it would be to use god damned ROMAN NUMERALS.
I have to keep a calculator handy on my desk just to convert between KiB, MiB and GiB because of misguided GNU utilities. (Or even worse, reported by those utilities in mystery-sized "disk blocks".) These units should be outlawed.
So is Chick Fil A forcing you to observe Sunday as a day of rest because they are closed?
In a way, yes. They deliberately close on that day to make you think about their religion. If you want a really bland chicken sandwich on a Sunday, you can't help but observe that they're resting.
But in more ways no, because:
The DMV isn't open on the weekends either or after 5 generally. What does that mean?
They have a regular schedule. By definition, a holiday is an interruption to that schedule. In this case, the interruption is to commemorate the purported anniversary of the birth of Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
And one more thing, the DMV is a poor example since that's a state agency.
It's hard to fathom why you think that. I specifically picked a state agency to point out how the state is forcing people to observe a religious holiday.
Anybody who tries going to the DMV to get their driver's license renewed on December 25th will find that they've instead been forced to observe a religious holiday.
I don't believe it's wise to spend scarce resources trying to add support for every new johnny-come-lately PC technology that may or may not pan out in the end.
Instead, it would be better to keep focused squarely on how to more perfectly isolate each functional element of the kernel from the other functional elements. There's always room for improvement in abstraction and isolation of intra-kernel services. This is what the Hurd needs to take the time to make sure they get right before they start adding random features.
We want money to be stolen from actual productive people and given to us. That's it, that's the ticket to prosperity. Theft and redistribution.
Don't be an ignoramus. People have been subject to "theft and redistribution" ever since the occupants of the first settlement of three straw huts decided to enclose it with a common fence. Nobody would be "productive" without taking plenty of advantage of government-supplied services and protection. Corporations are no exception to this.
Taxes are a basic part of the way human society functions, and always have been Deal with it.
Collective punishment for US copyright holders. Next they will invite the Mafia to start selling drugs to their citizens. What a way to build a country.
Just like the US continues to collectively punish foreign makers of light trucks worldwide with a 25% tariff, all because 50 years ago France and Germany had unfair restrictions on imports of US chickens.
At least this pirate business makes a little bit sense compared to that.
No, he said that the government breaking up the monopoly was "criminal", because breaking them up is the sole reason we can't match those vaunted uptime figures (which, as I pointed out, didn't necessarily mean that I could actually put a call through). Never mind the fact that modern communications technology is many orders of magnitude more complex and carries millions of times more information than an old-fashioned telephone crossbar switch. "Simple Engineering" fix, my ass.
The only logical conclusion we can draw from the OP's argument is that it would have been better to leave the monopoly in place, just to achieve the old reliability numbers. In a way, he's correct, because communications technology under a monopoly would have been decades behind current levels, and therefore much simpler. I simply pointed out what else that would entail.
You've got some real rose-colored glasses there. I remember what else came along with that monopoly reliability:
-Phones, which you had to rent for decades, wired directly to the wall with no connectors. (That made painting a room into a constant phone shuffle.) -Rules against hooking anything but rented telco equipment to the system. -Astronomical per-minute costs to dial up grandma in the next state. -Switches that were frequently overloaded by too much traffic (fast busy signal). Not technically "down", but frequently unuseable anyway. -Zero calling features.
If the AT&T monopoly were still in place, we'd probably never have gotten internet access at all. Instead, we'd be probably all be stuck using clunky telco-owned terminals like the French Minitel system.
Was this a USENET post from '94? Mortgage systems using 32-bit time_t (if there ever were any) failed 5 years ago for 30-year mortgages. We did not hear an earth-shattering kaboom.
Maybe that's because accountant types seem to think that the only valid numerical inaccuracies are those manifested in base 10, so they tend to use their own weird decimal number types for financial calculations.
Right, because we all know that power plants use gasoline engines to generate electricity? Yeah, no.
Oh and natural gas plants have near 60% efficiency. Coal and oil are in the mid 40s and nuclear in the lower 40s. So yeah, it's still at less than half the efficiency of other generation.
The fossil fuels burned in those power plants are nothing but stored solar energy. Given how much solar energy has had to shine on this planet for half a billion years in order to store enough coal or gas to run those generators, the overall efficiency of fossil fuel generation is absolutely abysmal.
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I can use a half, two thirds or a quarter when I'm doubling or halving recipes, something which is somewhat more convenient with non-metric measures.
BS.
Quick: What's 2/3 of 1-3/4 cups?
I've switched to using a digital scale instead of volume measurements whenever I can for cooking (and mixing drinks). I leave it set to grams, and it's always easier to do scaling math like that with grams than with imperial units. (Bonus: no measuring cups to wash, either)
If I was measuring flour in the case above, my recipe would say 245g. 2/3 of that is 163, which I can do in my head in about 3 seconds. I don't even feel like thinking about finding the least common denominator to solve it your way.
And how would you solve this, exactly?
By sticking with terse APIs like POSIX.
Most of the time, the vast majority of Microsoft's convoluted API structure fields are boilerplate that nobody uses (but nevertheless have to be filled in with long boilerplate ALL_CAPS_CONSTANT_NAMES that blow up each API call into a whole paragraph of source code).
Since DIP chips from the 16Kib era were thicker than the whole iPad even without sockets, I was probably joking.
16KB storage: Apple is really screwing with the customer now.
The worst part is that instead of using sockets like in the Apple II, for the iPad they soldered down the memory DIPs and omitted any kind of expansion bus slots, so you can't upgrade.
At least it looks like a *ship*, instead of the more typical floating office building with the ass end of a whale glued on top.
Yucca Mountain was designed to store wastes AFTER they had been immobilized and put in long-term storage casks.
The problem here is that they haven't even started that first step. This is still millions of gallons of raw liquid waste, in a state that is totally unsuitable for interstate transport and burial. If Yucca Mountain were up and running today, it wouldn't help this problem one bit.
If they actually took the initiative to solidify this waste now and put it in casks, they could safely store it on site for decades or centuries, just like they're currently doing with commercial reactor waste. They don't need something like Yucca Mountain to address the current risks.
Guess what happens when the victim isn't rich?
They buy a domestic boat instead of outsourcing?
That sounds kind of dumb. Why would a train need batteries for propulsion?
Because these days more and more ticket-buying passengers are refusing to help pump the handcar arm.
have you seen the HTML that gets generated from TeXInfo?
Yes. It's usually broken up into a massive hierarchy with a couple of sentences per page. You'll get cramps clicking on the navigation links while searching for the particular thing you need to find like a needle in a haystack.
Plain old man pages (especially when nicely rendered in KDE's Konqueror web browser by typing "#program-name" into the URL box) are almost invariably superior to the corresponding Texinfo docs converted to html.
In this story, he's appealing to bureaucracy to fix a dispute in a heavily regulated corner of IP law (which itself is a government interference in the free market).
Yeah. He wants the government to confiscate that IP from its owner under threat of force, and then give it to himself as an entitlement.
That make him a big, fat HYPOCRITE.
Whether you define the market where that value is traded as "free" is irrelevant. Money is money.
What's the sector size of a data CD? hard disk? floppy?
2000, 4000 and 500 bytes?
Err, no.
What's that got to do with anything? "Sectors" are an internal file system detail, hidden from the end user. When was the last time you had to worry about the difference between a file size and the next sector boundary? If you think you're clever enough to handle that, did you remember take the associated file system metadata into account? How many sectors does the metadata use for a given file? Did Windows Explorer report that? These boundaries are often 4096 bytes. What measurement system uses 4096 as a base? What's the suffix for that? Quick, how many sectors are in a GiB?
Sectors are useless, and binary units, which don't even tell you how many sectors you're using, don't change that.
And this is different from anything else, how?
If something (including real estate, natural resources, physical objects, etc) isn't already owned by a private party, it's generally owned or controlled by the government, and that's who you'd buy it from.
You should be happy that the government makes fresh domain names available for only a couple of bucks. It's like the old days when they used to dole out homesteads and railroad right-of-way almost free of charge.
There are over 8 billion 7-letter .com domain names in existence, the vast majority of which are still available and not already the private property of someone else. He's free to choose any of those, at very reasonable market prices.
correct ones to use.
That is completely incorrect. Outside of a few misguided file manager utilities from Microsoft and other vendors, binary units are not commonly used in computers to specify anything other than random access solid state memory. They have not been used to specify the size of optical disks, floppy disks, network bandwidth, I/O bandwidth, or for the past few decades (if ever), mass storage sizes.
Why is it used for solid state memory? Because size increments are almost always done by doubling the size of the bit array. But no other part of a computer expands in that fashion.
Why is it not used for anything else? Because dealing with pseudo-binary based arithmetic is just about as convenient as it would be to use god damned ROMAN NUMERALS.
I have to keep a calculator handy on my desk just to convert between KiB, MiB and GiB because of misguided GNU utilities. (Or even worse, reported by those utilities in mystery-sized "disk blocks".) These units should be outlawed.
So is Chick Fil A forcing you to observe Sunday as a day of rest because they are closed?
In a way, yes. They deliberately close on that day to make you think about their religion. If you want a really bland chicken sandwich on a Sunday, you can't help but observe that they're resting.
But in more ways no, because:
The DMV isn't open on the weekends either or after 5 generally. What does that mean?
They have a regular schedule. By definition, a holiday is an interruption to that schedule. In this case, the interruption is to commemorate the purported anniversary of the birth of Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
And one more thing, the DMV is a poor example since that's a state agency.
It's hard to fathom why you think that. I specifically picked a state agency to point out how the state is forcing people to observe a religious holiday.
Who's forced to observe a holiday?
Anybody who tries going to the DMV to get their driver's license renewed on December 25th will find that they've instead been forced to observe a religious holiday.
I don't believe it's wise to spend scarce resources trying to add support for every new johnny-come-lately PC technology that may or may not pan out in the end.
Instead, it would be better to keep focused squarely on how to more perfectly isolate each functional element of the kernel from the other functional elements. There's always room for improvement in abstraction and isolation of intra-kernel services. This is what the Hurd needs to take the time to make sure they get right before they start adding random features.
...my Fedora machine crashed with the 100% CPU usage bug again. Is this bug simply impossible to fix?
Tell me about it. I first started having problems with the 100% CPU usage bug while I was running MS-DOS in the early 1980s.
I mean, how hard can it be to fix this one damned bug? Does it really take 30 years?
We want money to be stolen from actual productive people and given to us. That's it, that's the ticket to prosperity. Theft and redistribution.
Don't be an ignoramus. People have been subject to "theft and redistribution" ever since the occupants of the first settlement of three straw huts decided to enclose it with a common fence. Nobody would be "productive" without taking plenty of advantage of government-supplied services and protection. Corporations are no exception to this.
Taxes are a basic part of the way human society functions, and always have been Deal with it.
Collective punishment for US copyright holders. Next they will invite the Mafia to start selling drugs to their citizens. What a way to build a country.
Just like the US continues to collectively punish foreign makers of light trucks worldwide with a 25% tariff, all because 50 years ago France and Germany had unfair restrictions on imports of US chickens.
At least this pirate business makes a little bit sense compared to that.
No, he said that the government breaking up the monopoly was "criminal", because breaking them up is the sole reason we can't match those vaunted uptime figures (which, as I pointed out, didn't necessarily mean that I could actually put a call through). Never mind the fact that modern communications technology is many orders of magnitude more complex and carries millions of times more information than an old-fashioned telephone crossbar switch. "Simple Engineering" fix, my ass.
The only logical conclusion we can draw from the OP's argument is that it would have been better to leave the monopoly in place, just to achieve the old reliability numbers. In a way, he's correct, because communications technology under a monopoly would have been decades behind current levels, and therefore much simpler. I simply pointed out what else that would entail.
You've got some real rose-colored glasses there. I remember what else came along with that monopoly reliability:
-Phones, which you had to rent for decades, wired directly to the wall with no connectors. (That made painting a room into a constant phone shuffle.)
-Rules against hooking anything but rented telco equipment to the system.
-Astronomical per-minute costs to dial up grandma in the next state.
-Switches that were frequently overloaded by too much traffic (fast busy signal). Not technically "down", but frequently unuseable anyway.
-Zero calling features.
If the AT&T monopoly were still in place, we'd probably never have gotten internet access at all. Instead, we'd be probably all be stuck using clunky telco-owned terminals like the French Minitel system.
Was this a USENET post from '94? Mortgage systems using 32-bit time_t (if there ever were any) failed 5 years ago for 30-year mortgages. We did not hear an earth-shattering kaboom.
Maybe that's because accountant types seem to think that the only valid numerical inaccuracies are those manifested in base 10, so they tend to use their own weird decimal number types for financial calculations.
Do the math. If they used a 32-bit unsigned integer, the problem wouldn't happen until the year 2106.
Right, because we all know that power plants use gasoline engines to generate electricity? Yeah, no.
Oh and natural gas plants have near 60% efficiency. Coal and oil are in the mid 40s and nuclear in the lower 40s. So yeah, it's still at less than half the efficiency of other generation.
The fossil fuels burned in those power plants are nothing but stored solar energy. Given how much solar energy has had to shine on this planet for half a billion years in order to store enough coal or gas to run those generators, the overall efficiency of fossil fuel generation is absolutely abysmal.