You hear about ramdrives every six months or so. It never amounts to anything. I don't see why this would be any different.
Fundamentally, you're always better just to use caching. Essentially, this amounts to a 2GB dedicated disk cache, except that the power supply ensures that the contents survive boots (though I don't know how it would do in a power failure). Anyway, how often do people reboot their machines nowadays? Stuff stays in my computer's cache for months at a time.
So, why not just add the 2GB to your main RAM? Then the OS could use it as a disk cache if it were so inclined (and you'd be right where you are with a ramdrive) or else the OS could use it as actual RAM if you needed it.
In short, RAM is just like a ramdrive except more flexible.
Wow, I thought 122000 was good. I fluked out and had him hit his head twice. The second time, his whole body landed on it, and I got about 80,000 points on that one hit. (The head appeared to fly right off his body momentarily!)
I was not recommending that we declare poor countries bankrupt. My point is that bankruptcy was invented out of recognition that people sometimes need to be forgiven from debt.
I believe your axiom that "cancelling a debt will hurt the recipient in the long run" is not obvious by any means. In fact, I find your claims of addiction ridiculous and even patronizing when applied to the nation of India.
I like your "don't insult; convince" line. Unfortunately I'm at work, so I can't put together a more cogent argument right now.:-)
Have you tried gcc 3.2? Personally, I have not seen any big difference between the code quality of VC++, gcc, and Intel's compiler, though I don't have a great deal of experience comparing them.
Subway collisions happen every so often. Thankfully, they are rare, but they happen.
Imagine if two of these pressurized cars collide, and their seals break. All their air would escape into the tube, and any passengers that survived the impact would suffocate in a fairly gruesome Total-Recall-like manner.
The safety section of their FAQ doesn't even address this.
They say repeatedly this is just for fun. They have already found that, if you are willing to put the TiVo disk in your PC, you can patch the binary to use the old backdoor password. If you want to enable backdoors, that's how you do it.
They have already tried most of the 9-character space to no avail, and every additional character makes the search take 37 times longer. And, as was said numerous times, when they find it, TiVo will just change it again and tack on a couple more characters.
Plus, there is no verification of results, so surely someone will cheat a la SETI@Home just to inflate his score by returning a bunch of bogus results, and the results will be invalid. Worse yet, a truly malicious person could return bad results for a whole lot of valid usernames, and it may be impossible to separate the good results from the bad. (I don't know if the server tracks IP addresses, but those can be spoofed too.)
So, this is kind of futile, but it looks like they're having fun.:-)
Well, the unit can't be $/GHz. It must be $/cycle. Otherwise they'd just be selling you a CPU. (For instance, the last Celeron I bought a few years back was $100 and 400MHz, so it cost $250/GHz.)
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Fundamentally, you're always better just to use caching. Essentially, this amounts to a 2GB dedicated disk cache, except that the power supply ensures that the contents survive boots (though I don't know how it would do in a power failure). Anyway, how often do people reboot their machines nowadays? Stuff stays in my computer's cache for months at a time.
So, why not just add the 2GB to your main RAM? Then the OS could use it as a disk cache if it were so inclined (and you'd be right where you are with a ramdrive) or else the OS could use it as actual RAM if you needed it.
In short, RAM is just like a ramdrive except more flexible.
Oh get off it. What did you do today toward curing cancer?
Nope. See #6 on this list.
I think it was a series of skits. One of them had "candygram" and others didn't.
Actually, I thought the Redundant mod was pretty funny. I wish I could metamod it as Funny.
Um, thanks for the critique, but I just pasted it from the SNL site.
Dang, you beat me by three minutes, and now I'll be modded as redundant.
Lady: Who is it?
... you're.. that crazy shark aren't you?
Landshark: Plumber.
Lady: I didn't hire a plumber. Who is it!?
Landshark: Flowers.
Lady: What... for who
Landshark: Plumber
Lady:
Landshark: No maam, I am just a dolphin.. will you let me in please?
Lady: A dolphin! Ok!
Heading 180, pitch -75, Force about 1/5. (Two to four orange bars.)
Can you beat my low score of 9? :-)
It's not "death nail" but "death knell".
Nicely done.
The site is slashdotted already, but I think you're right. Nothing to see here. Move along, folks.
Well hey, look who it is.
I believe your axiom that "cancelling a debt will hurt the recipient in the long run" is not obvious by any means. In fact, I find your claims of addiction ridiculous and even patronizing when applied to the nation of India.
I like your "don't insult; convince" line. Unfortunately I'm at work, so I can't put together a more cogent argument right now. :-)
"Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?" -Ebenezer Scrooge
I can't speak for the other platforms.
It's different for UNIX shells. Zero means success, while nonzero represents an error number.
Oh, well in that case, never mind.
Imagine if two of these pressurized cars collide, and their seals break. All their air would escape into the tube, and any passengers that survived the impact would suffocate in a fairly gruesome Total-Recall-like manner.
The safety section of their FAQ doesn't even address this.
They have already tried most of the 9-character space to no avail, and every additional character makes the search take 37 times longer. And, as was said numerous times, when they find it, TiVo will just change it again and tack on a couple more characters.
Plus, there is no verification of results, so surely someone will cheat a la SETI@Home just to inflate his score by returning a bunch of bogus results, and the results will be invalid. Worse yet, a truly malicious person could return bad results for a whole lot of valid usernames, and it may be impossible to separate the good results from the bad. (I don't know if the server tracks IP addresses, but those can be spoofed too.)
So, this is kind of futile, but it looks like they're having fun. :-)
Well, the unit can't be $/GHz. It must be $/cycle. Otherwise they'd just be selling you a CPU. (For instance, the last Celeron I bought a few years back was $100 and 400MHz, so it cost $250/GHz.)