> Maybe the part about HDD caching slowing things down?
Yes. The blocks in cache are copies of ones on disk. When a process reads a file from disk the OS caches the blocks in otherwise-unused RAM. If they are still around when you need the file again they are right there in RAM so there is no need to go to disk. This speeds things up. If the RAM is needed for another purpose the blocks can be freed by simply changing a flag and mapping them as quickly as if they had been totally free. This does not slow things down. After a while most of the blocks you need will be in RAM when you need them. Thus caching makes the system faster, not slower.
The above describes Linux. I assume Windows works similarly.
>...the "lens" (its optical purpose) can be done in software.
No it can't. The pixels have no information about the direction from which each photon arrived. Without a lense each of your pixels will receive photons from every point in the scene with no way to sort them out.
> These are probably just all rock piles, repeatedly fractured by collisions > and without enough self-gravity to smush things back together, so some > internal voids would not be surprising.
Small voids, yes, but they would have be pretty big to show up at the resolution these measurements good for.
> The writer Douglas Adams observed how technology that existed when we were > born seems normal, anything that is developed before we turn 35 is exciting, > and whatever comes after that is treated with suspicion.
...the law forces Google (or any other blogging platform) to terminate the accounts of "repeat offenders," even if their only mistake was not to file paperwork against the accusations of an anonymous robot -- sad and wrong, but mandated by current law.
This is false. The DMCA does not require Google to do anything. It merely grants them immunity from a claim of copyright infringement if they comply with it in response to a legitimate, correctly formed and delivered takedown notice. If they ignore the notice they are in exactly the same position they would be in had the DMCA never been enacted. Furthermore, there are penalties for sending false DMCA takedown notices as well as a counter-notice procedure that permits the material to be put back up (with the service provider retaining immunity) and gives the copyright owner thirty days to file suit.
Absent the DMCA none of these blogs would exist as Google would be strictly liable for infringements.
> How about they first put seats in that fit 90% of the population?
The seats have shrunk gradually over the years, with different airlines changing at different times. If 90% (or even 10%) of the population really cared they would have avoided the airlines with the smallest seats and thus forced them to change back. They didn't: they continued to choose the lowest price no matter what.
Fly first class. You'll have lots of room. What's that? It costs more? No shit!
> This does bring up an interesting issue. Pharmaceutical companies are > apparently applying patents for genes these days. Aren't the DNA base > sequences of any gene a fact if anything?
Yes, and therefor, despite what the newsies say, it is not actually the genes that are patented.
> Who's gonna tell all the corporations that all their VPN connections and > their Blackberries are now illegal?
Simple. While the "far right" will have made all encryption illegal the "far left" will have made all corporations illegal so they won't be there to complain.
My point is that "it's illegal everywhere: just have the pornographers prosecuted by their local jurisdiction" doesn't work because all jurisdictions don't agree on what it is.
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No. Special Relativity prevents light-speed travel.
> Users affected by this problem can fix it by replacing the infected driver
> with a new one via the system console.
But that would break Alureon! Is an update available for it?
RAM that is marked as containing a block from a recently-loaded file uses no more power than would the same block marked as free.
> Does a 0 have a corresponding increase in amperage so that it levels out and
> uses the same amount of power?
It takes exactly the same amount of power to store a zero in RAM as it does a one.
> While yes, puppy linux may run super fast, its also lacking a lot of what ;)
> makes people stay with windows
Which is included in complete Linux distributions such as Ubuntu ;)
> Maybe the part about HDD caching slowing things down?
Yes. The blocks in cache are copies of ones on disk. When a process reads a file from disk the OS caches the blocks in otherwise-unused RAM. If they are still around when you need the file again they are right there in RAM so there is no need to go to disk. This speeds things up. If the RAM is needed for another purpose the blocks can be freed by simply changing a flag and mapping them as quickly as if they had been totally free. This does not slow things down. After a while most of the blocks you need will be in RAM when you need them. Thus caching makes the system faster, not slower.
The above describes Linux. I assume Windows works similarly.
> You took a few low-resolution pictures, ran them through the program, and
> got out a high resolution image.
This is not the same thing at all.
> ...the "lens" (its optical purpose) can be done in software.
No it can't. The pixels have no information about the direction from which each photon arrived. Without a lense each of your pixels will receive photons from every point in the scene with no way to sort them out.
> These are probably just all rock piles, repeatedly fractured by collisions
> and without enough self-gravity to smush things back together, so some
> internal voids would not be surprising.
Small voids, yes, but they would have be pretty big to show up at the resolution these measurements good for.
> When calculating the density, this gives a surprising figure because it
> seems that parts of Phobos may be hollow...
That is interesting, to say the least.
> The writer Douglas Adams observed how technology that existed when we were
> born seems normal, anything that is developed before we turn 35 is exciting,
> and whatever comes after that is treated with suspicion.
"We"? Speak for yourself, Adams.
> At a "3 sigma" level (and don't believe any new science that is not at the 3
> sigma level or better),
So I guess you reject pretty much all of biochemistry and medicine?
This is false. The DMCA does not require Google to do anything. It merely grants them immunity from a claim of copyright infringement if they comply with it in response to a legitimate, correctly formed and delivered takedown notice. If they ignore the notice they are in exactly the same position they would be in had the DMCA never been enacted. Furthermore, there are penalties for sending false DMCA takedown notices as well as a counter-notice procedure that permits the material to be put back up (with the service provider retaining immunity) and gives the copyright owner thirty days to file suit.
Absent the DMCA none of these blogs would exist as Google would be strictly liable for infringements.
> How about they first put seats in that fit 90% of the population?
The seats have shrunk gradually over the years, with different airlines changing at different times. If 90% (or even 10%) of the population really cared they would have avoided the airlines with the smallest seats and thus forced them to change back. They didn't: they continued to choose the lowest price no matter what.
Fly first class. You'll have lots of room. What's that? It costs more? No shit!
> This does bring up an interesting issue. Pharmaceutical companies are
> apparently applying patents for genes these days. Aren't the DNA base
> sequences of any gene a fact if anything?
Yes, and therefor, despite what the newsies say, it is not actually the genes that are patented.
> Who's gonna tell all the corporations that all their VPN connections and
> their Blackberries are now illegal?
Simple. While the "far right" will have made all encryption illegal the "far left" will have made all corporations illegal so they won't be there to complain.
My point is that "it's illegal everywhere: just have the pornographers prosecuted by their local jurisdiction" doesn't work because all jurisdictions don't agree on what it is.
> The math just does not work out.
Math doesn't matter. Only "greenness" counts.
We had thermal printers in the seventies. They suck.
DO you seriously believe that the regulators would permit this sort of innovation? DO you have any idea what the requirements are to start a bank?
Interesting slip.
> mental and social development is more that just studying.
Yes. It involves engaging in social and physical activity (including real productive work) in mixed groups of children and adults.
Too bad most children never get that. Instead they get public school and television.
> A bunch of posters seem to think that a bus should be rowdy.
The school busses I rode weren't rowdy. But then, that was fifty years ago...
> Since when is stuffing a large number of kids in a cramped space for hours
> with little to do considered important for their development?
Since public schools were invented.
> 'Boys aren't hitting each other, girls are busy, and there's not so much
> jumping around,'
This is not good (but then neither are public schools).