It's actually a little-known form of Hypertext lensing caused by the Slashdot Anomaly. Let me explain.
The Slashdot Anomaly is a powerful attractive force on the internet, drawing in general News-For-Nerds and Stuff-That-Matters articles towards it, constantly increasing the size of its article/comments database - which is the prime generator of it's attractive force.
If there is an article of news behind the Slashdot Anomaly (as viewed from our browsers here in front of the Anomaly) you will often see two distorted copies of the original article that's out there in the internet, set a small distance apart. Sometimes, if the angles are just right, you can see multiple distorted copies. This is the general principle of Hypertext lensing - similar to Gravitational lensing, the size of the Slashdot Anomaly's internal database actually warps the underlying structure of the internet.
Initially, when the Slashdot Anomaly was small, it's Hypertext Lensing effect was minimal, and multiple copies of articles were rare. However, over the years the database size of the Slashdot Anomaly has grown a thousandfold and the attractive force has become so powerful that it now severely warps the view of internet that we observe beyond it, leading to the problems we have today regarding "dupes".
Some posit that the attractive force will become so large that our view of the internet through the Slashdot Anomaly will eventually be so distorted as to be useless (see: digg) , however others contend that advances in the relatively new field of adaptive Hypertext filtering may yet save the day.
So you see, it's not the dupes that make Slashdot suck - it's actually the reverse.
Slashdot sucks so hard that it makes dupes appear.
Fucking hell. 1024x768 is "Ultra small resolution"?
The cpu is relatively slow, most users in this range run only one app full-screen at any one time and 1024x768 is perfectly fine on a 15-21" monitor.
Don't get all pixel-snobby here, or I'll be forced to mention my mis-spent youth programming Coco II games and the oddball CGA resolutions like 160x100 - which, coincidentally, is about the resolution of my basic Samsung phone at present.
So I'll do you a deal - once your phone is routinely capable of 1024x768 on its display, that's when you can call 1024x768 "Ultra small resolution"
Ignoring for the moment the fear of radioactive spiders, arbitrarily green physicists or other subcultural agents, I presume someone poked a radiation-measuring instrument in the general direction of the inside of that room?
Or maybe one should poke a radiation-measuring instrument around the outside of that room?
*tightens tinfoil hat*
::EYES ONLY::EYES ONLY::EYES ONLY:: ::PROJECT CUPCAKE:: ::START DATE JUNE 25 1964:: ::PROJECT BRIEF::
This project involves dusting the second floor of our disused research building with radionuclides of a quantity typical of the levels generated by large-scale atomic weaponry at close range. Subsequent to this dusting, the floor will then be populated with monkeys that are trained to perform menial, repetitive tasks for as long as possible. An observer will be positioned in the shielded room (originally used for research) on this floor and will be able to record the ability of the monkeys to perform their tasks, as well as the subsequent rapid death of the monkeys. Due to high levels of radioactivity and the long life of decay products, it is recommended that this building no longer be used after this project.
In addition to the previous research, the long term effect of radioactive compounds on humans to be studied at the facility until the background radiation drops to ambient levels. As such, this building is to be leased to the general public and local cancer and leukemia rates monitored until further notice. ::END BRIEF::
Until you let it off in the business district of any major city, where it proceeds to severely damage a dozen high-rise buildings, kill 500 people outright from flash burns and flying debris, kill another 500 people in a week due to radiation poisoning, and leave the whole area hot enough that nobody can go there for a month without a protective suit and nobody ever, ever, wants to do business there again.
Then - apart from all the physical effects - you've now got the fear associated with Angry Crazed Terrorists With Nukes, and do they have any more of those about and which city are they going to have a go at next?
You folks do anything interesting while sleep deprived? Leave out anything that could get you into trouble.
Used to do shiftwork from 11pm - 7am for 7 days at a time. Usually had "lunch" at 4am..... decided a small nap over lunch would help, climbed into the back seat of a truck, lay down, closed eyes, opened eyes..... sun's up? Hmmm.
Peeked out from back of truck, it's 7:30am, new shift is on, everyone else has gone home. Decided to brazen it out - leapt out of the truck, strode purposefully past boss's office, put tools away, washed hands,cleaned up and said, "righto, all done, seeya later."
Not too interesting, but it's only the second time in my life that I've experienced 'instant' dreamless sleep. Literally felt like I had closed my eyes, counted a second and opened them again and it was very disorienting to suddenly snap from dark quiet workshop to brightly-lit busy workshop.
"Fatigue management" has really helped in my industry (mining). I can go see the boss, say, "look, I didn't get any sleep today, I feel like crap, I'm just going to have a quick nap. If I'm not about in 30 minutes, come wake me" and he's fine with it, because he knows that otherwise I might get pasted up against the wall by some bit of heavy equipment in an inattentive moment.
This was delicate because the instrument they're linking up with is massive and fragile. No hard bumps during grabbing or thruster exhaust spraying the device is acceptable.
Exactly.
Here's a simple question for those who say this is easy to work out:
You have an orbiter with a mass of 80,000kg drifting towards a telescope with a mass of 11,000kg in an essentially frictionless environment, just like your physics teachers used to say and love. They are directly approaching each other at 10 millimeters per second and collide at that speed whilst the orbiter is attempting to grapple the telescope.
Assuming an inflexible contact point via the orbiter's arm and a 100 x 100mm contact point on the telescope that deforms a total of 10 millimeters in the one second it takes for the two to come together (and stay together - assume that the orbiter has gripped the telescope), calculate the contact force applied to the telescope in Newtons and deceleration of the telescope in mm/sec over the 1 second period as the two meet. For simplicity, also assume that their centre of mass is in line with their relative velocities, to avoid any tumbling effects.
Quick mental calculations tell me the forces would be large (bend-your-telescope type large) and the deceleration, whilst minor, would not be good for sensitive instruments and gyros aboard the telescope.
Learn the concept of paragraphs if you want your comments read. No, I did not bother.
That's too bad. He had a few good points in there.
By all means, feel free to suggest to him that shorter paragraphs are useful on the web, to help people with a low IQ and short attention spans more easily digest what you write. The screen is a different medium to paper after all, so a paragraph of that size - that wouldn't be too out of place in a good textbook - is a little on the chunky side here.
But your blatant "make it easy for me or fuck off" attitude is disheartening. No, don't bother to try and comprehend the point he's trying to make, it's just not worth the outrageous mental effort required to read 10 whole lines of continuous text.
I am by no means a Rhodes scholar, but if your attitude is typical of today - and there's plenty of evidence to suggest that it is - well, I weep for the future.
..... and it would really suck afterwards to see it survive re-entry.
Watching it proceed on a textbook glidepath, gear down, descending into the water.....
But seriously, you could leave it up there. It's in a pretty high orbit.... the hubble telescope's been there for plenty of years now with only a small station-keeping rocket. Send up a nice inflatable pod that fits into the cargo bay like Bigelow aerospace's designs, tack on a couple of solar panels and ta-da! Another space station.
I know, it's not really that feasible (or useful), just seems a waste to burn it up.
The same thing is true with job offers. The company doesn't want to go back to the interview process, so once they've made an offer to hire you, ask to "think about it" for a day. On the next day, come in and ask for 10% more.
You: "I've thought about it and I'd like 10% more." Company: "Ok, Let us think about it and we'll get back to you."
The company drops your application in the shredder, picks up the application of one of the other final three candidates that made it past the grueling 10-stage interview process, and gives them a ring instead.
Meanwhile, you're all, "those assholes never called me back", never realising that it's rare to be the only possible good applicant a company gets these days.
So you ring back in a couple of weeks to talk to a secretary in HR, to hear faintly in the background, "Oh yeah, that guy? He seemed alright, but he wanted 10% more, thus he wasn't suitable for the position."
It seems possible that such a sensor could be duped with false input on the proper frequencies, causing the bag to deploy.....Of course, it would require technical expertise, putting it out of reach of most pranksters.
Large-ish Mylar balloons (visible to radar), spray painted black to warm them up in the sun, thrown from the side of the road as cars pass.
50 cents a pop, good entertainment value. Although I'd probably just push them out a side window whilst driving a car from the opposite direction for that extra hit'n'run buzz.
Must be a pretty small VW beetle, as 250 litres is just 1/4 of a cubic metre, which could be contained in a box with sides of 63x63x63cm.
Of course, you should only fill the box to 80% capacity or so when talking about liquefied gases, and there'd be a good 50cm of insulation all round the box if you didn't want it to boil off overnight, but beetle-sized? Hardly.
Yeah, it seems that quite a few open source programs seem to render the pages as images and then send that off to the printer driver, rather than doing it in postscript and letting the driver do the image rendering (which is what I presume Adobe reader does). It's fine if you've got the space and processor time to spare, not so fine on a 600MHz netbook with a few hundred megs of free disk space.
So it's an Acrobat Reader 5.1 for me - renders pretty much all the PDF's I need to read, doesn't have too much bloat. Every version after that seems to have ballooned in size and annoying 'features' that I don't need.
And - oh wait, there's just the trivial need to have them...
combined with solar, geothermal and other renewable resources, they will provide a fairly stable power supply
A nuclear power plant needs none of this to provide a *very* stable power supply, and is neatly placed in one spot, with a much smaller overall infrastructure build than a miscellaneous hodge-podge of various power sources scattered wherever the environment is suitable for them. It's also proven to work very well at base load generation.
So, which would you rather spend $0.049/kWh on -- a nuclear plant that might go over budget, might leak radiation at some point during its life, whose waste will need to be carefully controlled and permanently stored somewhere that hasn't yet been identified; or a wind farm whose costs are much more certain and which comes without all those ancillary risks?
I would prefer to spend my 4.9cents per kWh on something that will reliably produce base load power 24/7 thanks. Come back in 20 years when some other sucker^W fearless forward-thinker has lost a pile of cash getting the tech tamed and into the markeplace.
aaaaand the summary at the top of the page specifically mentions car HID lights, which are usually 35W and about 3000-3400 Lumens.
See where I'm going with this?
No, not really, it seems a little pointless.
As is the excitement over a AUD500 monster LED array, when any noob can buy 2 x 35W automotive HID assemblies from eBay for AUD140 in total and have the equivalent light output, with easy retrofitting into any number of automotive spotlamps for some truly awesome light throw.
a large proportion of that 3.35 Terawatts/year is not converted into heat. It is converted into mechanical work (machinery, etc) and other things (televisions, computers, communications and so on)
Hi.
Please study the general principles of thermodynamics a bit more. Pretty much every watt generated is eventually converted into heat.
There are a few small exceptions - if you use electricity to raise an object (eg, with a crane when building a skyscraper) and then leave it in that position, or use electricity in a chemical reaction to create an object and again, leave it in that form (eg. aluminium, or electrolysis). Things like battery storage only delay the conversion to heat, (as batteries are used eventually) so they don't count.
If you don't have a good grasp of English (that is, greater than idiomatic, although even that is a great help), it's going to be very tedious trying to find something in those libraries. Then you have to read the function's description (again, in English) to see if it's what you want and hope that your translation of its function is correct, for there might be a dozen similarly-named functions to pick from that all do *slightly* different things.
Finally, there's the added hurdle stemming from the fact they all have a liberal sprinkling of shortened names/acronyms for brevity - none of which translate particularly well to your language.
But I agree, once you've got that sorted, it's no hassle at all.
My P-133 could do better than real time encoding of.wav ->.mp3
So why, when computers are now routinely 50 or 60 times faster than that, would I bother with two separate file formats crammed into one blob on the relatively tiny memory of my portable device?
Why, when disk space is now so cheap on my pc, can't I have a simple background process converting.flac into.mp3, to be stored separately for transfer to my portable device?
Why would I suddenly want to put up with 9/10th's of the storage capacity of my portable device being used for useless data?
You weren't inspecting any such things because they never existed. Nor can there be such a thing as an atomic rifle grenade - as the minimum mass for a practical fission explosion far exceeds what a rifle can project.
Well, I'm with you with the rifle grenade, but the "Davy Crockett" was real and could have probably stretched to 1kT.
I love the per-capita stats. Nothing like lies,damned lies and statistics.
20 million people in Australia. 1300 million people in China.
So basically, with the 5x figure, Australia's pollution from 20 million people is equivalent to 100 million Chinese. Never mind the other 1.2 BILLION, eh? Australia is a dirty, dirty country and should hang its head in shame.
Bad Australia! Be more like the Chinese with just 1/5th the pollution of you! (*cough*per capita*cough*)
Oil will *always* be profitable. Especially when you're sucking the last few barrels out of 100 year old wells and selling it to a captive market who either couldn't afford to switch to something renewable or have no real alternative.
If something sufficiently big happens, all bets are off.
This is incorrect - the principle of "Force Majeure" is that it has to be completely unexpected - that is, a reasonable person would be unable to forsee the event, and would not have taken measures to mitigate it.
Say I run a fishing company and all my boats are at sea and are sunk in a big storm. I can't really claim Force Majeure on your supply contracts, as it could be expected that, when fishing, one could encounter storms that might sink your fleet. However, if my boats were docked in a harbour with a narrow inlet with high cliffs and some construction work collapsed the cliffs and blocked the harbour preventing my boats from getting out, well that would fit under "Force Majeure".
In the MCP's case, one can get insurance for loss of business income, and if one is beholden to continuous payments to a third party, it's a good idea to get it. This is basic financial disaster management - plenty of businesses will sit down and think, "what would happen if the building caught fire?", but few will think, "what happens if my customers suddenly can't pay?"
6.3TB written total (roughly 9 months of usage) 58 cycles (average) on each block of Nand
Having little to do with SSD's, can you pull that info out with SMART or something similar? I'd presume that certain smart parameters would be set as the disk approaches it's end of life and thus it's a simple thing to monitor, rendering the whole "OMG DONT USE SSD MY DISK WORE OUT WITHOUT WARNING AND LOST MY DATA IM SUING INTEL!!1!" argument moot.
Slashdot Mirror
It's actually a little-known form of Hypertext lensing caused by the Slashdot Anomaly.
Let me explain.
The Slashdot Anomaly is a powerful attractive force on the internet, drawing in general News-For-Nerds and Stuff-That-Matters articles towards it, constantly increasing the size of its article/comments database - which is the prime generator of it's attractive force.
If there is an article of news behind the Slashdot Anomaly (as viewed from our browsers here in front of the Anomaly) you will often see two distorted copies of the original article that's out there in the internet, set a small distance apart. Sometimes, if the angles are just right, you can see multiple distorted copies. This is the general principle of Hypertext lensing - similar to Gravitational lensing, the size of the Slashdot Anomaly's internal database actually warps the underlying structure of the internet.
Initially, when the Slashdot Anomaly was small, it's Hypertext Lensing effect was minimal, and multiple copies of articles were rare. However, over the years the database size of the Slashdot Anomaly has grown a thousandfold and the attractive force has become so powerful that it now severely warps the view of internet that we observe beyond it, leading to the problems we have today regarding "dupes".
Some posit that the attractive force will become so large that our view of the internet through the Slashdot Anomaly will eventually be so distorted as to be useless (see: digg) , however others contend that advances in the relatively new field of adaptive Hypertext filtering may yet save the day.
So you see, it's not the dupes that make Slashdot suck - it's actually the reverse.
Slashdot sucks so hard that it makes dupes appear.
Fucking hell. 1024x768 is "Ultra small resolution"?
The cpu is relatively slow, most users in this range run only one app full-screen at any one time and 1024x768 is perfectly fine on a 15-21" monitor.
Don't get all pixel-snobby here, or I'll be forced to mention my mis-spent youth programming Coco II games and the oddball CGA resolutions like 160x100 - which, coincidentally, is about the resolution of my basic Samsung phone at present.
So I'll do you a deal - once your phone is routinely capable of 1024x768 on its display, that's when you can call 1024x768 "Ultra small resolution"
(kids these days. geez. :-p)
Ignoring for the moment the fear of radioactive spiders, arbitrarily green physicists or other subcultural agents, I presume someone poked a radiation-measuring instrument in the general direction of the inside of that room?
Or maybe one should poke a radiation-measuring instrument around the outside of that room?
*tightens tinfoil hat*
This project involves dusting the second floor of our disused research building with radionuclides of a quantity typical of the levels generated by large-scale atomic weaponry at close range. Subsequent to this dusting, the floor will then be populated with monkeys that are trained to perform menial, repetitive tasks for as long as possible. An observer will be positioned in the shielded room (originally used for research) on this floor and will be able to record the ability of the monkeys to perform their tasks, as well as the subsequent rapid death of the monkeys. Due to high levels of radioactivity and the long life of decay products, it is recommended that this building no longer be used after this project.
In addition to the previous research, the long term effect of radioactive compounds on humans to be studied at the facility until the background radiation drops to ambient levels. As such, this building is to be leased to the general public and local cancer and leukemia rates monitored until further notice.
::END BRIEF::
Why do we *still* have windows you can't fucking minimize until you answer their inane questions?
Because then you could just drag all the EULA's and Important Microsoft Product Activation notices off the side of the screen and keep on truckin'.
That's hardly a fart in the scheme of things.
Until you let it off in the business district of any major city, where it proceeds to severely damage a dozen high-rise buildings, kill 500 people outright from flash burns and flying debris, kill another 500 people in a week due to radiation poisoning, and leave the whole area hot enough that nobody can go there for a month without a protective suit and nobody ever, ever, wants to do business there again.
Then - apart from all the physical effects - you've now got the fear associated with Angry Crazed Terrorists With Nukes, and do they have any more of those about and which city are they going to have a go at next?
You folks do anything interesting while sleep deprived? Leave out anything that could get you into trouble.
Used to do shiftwork from 11pm - 7am for 7 days at a time.
Usually had "lunch" at 4am..... decided a small nap over lunch would help, climbed into the back seat of a truck, lay down, closed eyes, opened eyes..... sun's up? Hmmm.
Peeked out from back of truck, it's 7:30am, new shift is on, everyone else has gone home. Decided to brazen it out - leapt out of the truck, strode purposefully past boss's office, put tools away, washed hands ,cleaned up and said, "righto, all done, seeya later."
Not too interesting, but it's only the second time in my life that I've experienced 'instant' dreamless sleep. Literally felt like I had closed my eyes, counted a second and opened them again and it was very disorienting to suddenly snap from dark quiet workshop to brightly-lit busy workshop.
"Fatigue management" has really helped in my industry (mining). I can go see the boss, say, "look, I didn't get any sleep today, I feel like crap, I'm just going to have a quick nap. If I'm not about in 30 minutes, come wake me" and he's fine with it, because he knows that otherwise I might get pasted up against the wall by some bit of heavy equipment in an inattentive moment.
This was delicate because the instrument they're linking up with is massive and fragile. No hard bumps during grabbing or thruster exhaust spraying the device is acceptable.
Exactly.
Here's a simple question for those who say this is easy to work out:
You have an orbiter with a mass of 80,000kg drifting towards a telescope with a mass of 11,000kg in an essentially frictionless environment, just like your physics teachers used to say and love. They are directly approaching each other at 10 millimeters per second and collide at that speed whilst the orbiter is attempting to grapple the telescope.
Assuming an inflexible contact point via the orbiter's arm and a 100 x 100mm contact point on the telescope that deforms a total of 10 millimeters in the one second it takes for the two to come together (and stay together - assume that the orbiter has gripped the telescope), calculate the contact force applied to the telescope in Newtons and deceleration of the telescope in mm/sec over the 1 second period as the two meet. For simplicity, also assume that their centre of mass is in line with their relative velocities, to avoid any tumbling effects.
Quick mental calculations tell me the forces would be large (bend-your-telescope type large) and the deceleration, whilst minor, would not be good for sensitive instruments and gyros aboard the telescope.
Learn the concept of paragraphs if you want your comments read.
No, I did not bother.
That's too bad. He had a few good points in there.
By all means, feel free to suggest to him that shorter paragraphs are useful on the web, to help people with a low IQ and short attention spans more easily digest what you write. The screen is a different medium to paper after all, so a paragraph of that size - that wouldn't be too out of place in a good textbook - is a little on the chunky side here.
But your blatant "make it easy for me or fuck off" attitude is disheartening. No, don't bother to try and comprehend the point he's trying to make, it's just not worth the outrageous mental effort required to read 10 whole lines of continuous text.
I am by no means a Rhodes scholar, but if your attitude is typical of today - and there's plenty of evidence to suggest that it is - well, I weep for the future.
..... and it would really suck afterwards to see it survive re-entry.
Watching it proceed on a textbook glidepath, gear down, descending into the water.....
But seriously, you could leave it up there. It's in a pretty high orbit.... the hubble telescope's been there for plenty of years now with only a small station-keeping rocket. Send up a nice inflatable pod that fits into the cargo bay like Bigelow aerospace's designs, tack on a couple of solar panels and ta-da! Another space station.
I know, it's not really that feasible (or useful), just seems a waste to burn it up.
The same thing is true with job offers. The company doesn't want to go back to the interview process, so once they've made an offer to hire you, ask to "think about it" for a day. On the next day, come in and ask for 10% more.
You: "I've thought about it and I'd like 10% more."
Company: "Ok, Let us think about it and we'll get back to you."
The company drops your application in the shredder, picks up the application of one of the other final three candidates that made it past the grueling 10-stage interview process, and gives them a ring instead.
Meanwhile, you're all, "those assholes never called me back", never realising that it's rare to be the only possible good applicant a company gets these days.
So you ring back in a couple of weeks to talk to a secretary in HR, to hear faintly in the background,
"Oh yeah, that guy? He seemed alright, but he wanted 10% more, thus he wasn't suitable for the position."
It seems possible that such a sensor could be duped with false input on the proper frequencies, causing the bag to deploy.....Of course, it would require technical expertise, putting it out of reach of most pranksters.
Large-ish Mylar balloons (visible to radar), spray painted black to warm them up in the sun, thrown from the side of the road as cars pass.
50 cents a pop, good entertainment value. Although I'd probably just push them out a side window whilst driving a car from the opposite direction for that extra hit'n'run buzz.
Must be a pretty small VW beetle, as 250 litres is just 1/4 of a cubic metre, which could be contained in a box with sides of 63x63x63cm.
Of course, you should only fill the box to 80% capacity or so when talking about liquefied gases, and there'd be a good 50cm of insulation all round the box if you didn't want it to boil off overnight, but beetle-sized? Hardly.
Yeah, it seems that quite a few open source programs seem to render the pages as images and then send that off to the printer driver, rather than doing it in postscript and letting the driver do the image rendering (which is what I presume Adobe reader does). It's fine if you've got the space and processor time to spare, not so fine on a 600MHz netbook with a few hundred megs of free disk space.
So it's an Acrobat Reader 5.1 for me - renders pretty much all the PDF's I need to read, doesn't have too much bloat. Every version after that seems to have ballooned in size and annoying 'features' that I don't need.
Let's look at two numbers here:
8.9 billion kWh per year
and
153 million kWh per year.
And - oh wait, there's just the trivial need to have them...
combined with solar, geothermal and other renewable resources, they will provide a fairly stable power supply
A nuclear power plant needs none of this to provide a *very* stable power supply, and is neatly placed in one spot, with a much smaller overall infrastructure build than a miscellaneous hodge-podge of various power sources scattered wherever the environment is suitable for them. It's also proven to work very well at base load generation.
So, which would you rather spend $0.049/kWh on -- a nuclear plant that might go over budget, might leak radiation at some point during its life, whose waste will need to be carefully controlled and permanently stored somewhere that hasn't yet been identified; or a wind farm whose costs are much more certain and which comes without all those ancillary risks?
I would prefer to spend my 4.9cents per kWh on something that will reliably produce base load power 24/7 thanks. Come back in 20 years when some other sucker^W fearless forward-thinker has lost a pile of cash getting the tech tamed and into the markeplace.
aaaaand the summary at the top of the page specifically mentions car HID lights, which are usually 35W and about 3000-3400 Lumens.
See where I'm going with this?
No, not really, it seems a little pointless.
As is the excitement over a AUD500 monster LED array, when any noob can buy 2 x 35W automotive HID assemblies from eBay for AUD140 in total and have the equivalent light output, with easy retrofitting into any number of automotive spotlamps for some truly awesome light throw.
a large proportion of that 3.35 Terawatts/year is not converted into heat. It is converted into mechanical work (machinery, etc) and other things (televisions, computers, communications and so on)
Hi.
Please study the general principles of thermodynamics a bit more.
Pretty much every watt generated is eventually converted into heat.
There are a few small exceptions - if you use electricity to raise an object (eg, with a crane when building a skyscraper) and then leave it in that position, or use electricity in a chemical reaction to create an object and again, leave it in that form (eg. aluminium, or electrolysis). Things like battery storage only delay the conversion to heat, (as batteries are used eventually) so they don't count.
The rest of it? All heat.
It's not like you have to know English just to understand the few words in programming languages.
The 'few' words,eh?
Quick, count how many functions are implemented (and named in English) in your standard C libraries or the Microsoft win32 API's.
If you don't have a good grasp of English (that is, greater than idiomatic, although even that is a great help), it's going to be very tedious trying to find something in those libraries. Then you have to read the function's description (again, in English) to see if it's what you want and hope that your translation of its function is correct, for there might be a dozen similarly-named functions to pick from that all do *slightly* different things.
Finally, there's the added hurdle stemming from the fact they all have a liberal sprinkling of shortened names/acronyms for brevity - none of which translate particularly well to your language.
But I agree, once you've got that sorted, it's no hassle at all.
You must be new here.
Truly Ray, you have risen from the ranks of the technical illiterate and become one of us.
Because of this, my brother, your view of the world will never be the same again.
I'm so very, very sorry.
(lights candle, holds a minute's respectful silence)
Huh. Less than 18 months to go from Wolf3D to Doom.
It sure seemed a lot longer back then......
My P-133 could do better than real time encoding of .wav -> .mp3
So why, when computers are now routinely 50 or 60 times faster than that, would I bother with two separate file formats crammed into one blob on the relatively tiny memory of my portable device?
Why, when disk space is now so cheap on my pc, can't I have a simple background process converting .flac into.mp3, to be stored separately for transfer to my portable device?
Why would I suddenly want to put up with 9/10th's of the storage capacity of my portable device being used for useless data?
In short, what the fuck were they thinking?
You weren't inspecting any such things because they never existed. Nor can there be such a thing as an atomic rifle grenade - as the minimum mass for a practical fission explosion far exceeds what a rifle can project.
Well, I'm with you with the rifle grenade, but the "Davy Crockett" was real and could have probably stretched to 1kT.
I love the per-capita stats. Nothing like lies,damned lies and statistics.
20 million people in Australia.
1300 million people in China.
So basically, with the 5x figure, Australia's pollution from 20 million people is equivalent to 100 million Chinese. Never mind the other 1.2 BILLION, eh? Australia is a dirty, dirty country and should hang its head in shame.
Bad Australia! Be more like the Chinese with just 1/5th the pollution of you! (*cough*per capita*cough*)
Once oil will not be profitable enough....
Oil will *always* be profitable. Especially when you're sucking the last few barrels out of 100 year old wells and selling it to a captive market who either couldn't afford to switch to something renewable or have no real alternative.
You damn well charge what you want.
If something sufficiently big happens, all bets are off.
This is incorrect - the principle of "Force Majeure" is that it has to be completely unexpected - that is, a reasonable person would be unable to forsee the event, and would not have taken measures to mitigate it.
Say I run a fishing company and all my boats are at sea and are sunk in a big storm. I can't really claim Force Majeure on your supply contracts, as it could be expected that, when fishing, one could encounter storms that might sink your fleet. However, if my boats were docked in a harbour with a narrow inlet with high cliffs and some construction work collapsed the cliffs and blocked the harbour preventing my boats from getting out, well that would fit under "Force Majeure".
In the MCP's case, one can get insurance for loss of business income, and if one is beholden to continuous payments to a third party, it's a good idea to get it. This is basic financial disaster management - plenty of businesses will sit down and think, "what would happen if the building caught fire?", but few will think, "what happens if my customers suddenly can't pay?"
6.3TB written total (roughly 9 months of usage)
58 cycles (average) on each block of Nand
Having little to do with SSD's, can you pull that info out with SMART or something similar?
I'd presume that certain smart parameters would be set as the disk approaches it's end of life and thus it's a simple thing to monitor, rendering the whole "OMG DONT USE SSD MY DISK WORE OUT WITHOUT WARNING AND LOST MY DATA IM SUING INTEL!!1!" argument moot.