They say the ribbon will mass about 7.5kg/km (about 10lb/mile). 45,000 km of that is 315,000kg, which is less than a jumbo jet, yet its surface area is 45,000,000m x.10m or 4.5 million square meters. Thats a lot of drag. The site has more info.
Focusing on my reflection in the screen would be a whole lot easier if I didn't have one of these damned anti reflective coatings on the monitor. I can't see even the slightest hint of my reflection. Don't they think about magic eyes when they build these things? Maybe I should ask my boss for an office with a window.
I bet a disaster/rescue version of this might do well in post earthquake or post bombing rubble. Its flexibility might expedite digging out the remains of the world trade center. Although I suppose in case where the stability of the rubble is in question, or there are people under it, stomping around might not be such a good idea.
Actually, I'm not sure that it was in italics the first time I read it. If you look at the story again, they've made a change without marking it as updated. It now says "Tack on" instead of "append". I suppose I could have not noticed the italics before, but I'm fairly confident that it didn't start out that way. If I was wrong though, my apologies to the editors. The word choice was still poor though, regardless of who did it.
A large number of p2p networks don't need any more sabotage than the creators do themselves by bundling the sharing programs with spyware. Nothing has hurt my p2p use more than the difficulty in finding decent p2p programs without malicious malware attached. I'm all for sharing files, but not at the expense of my privacy and system stability. I almost wonder if the Record companies didn't suggest this business model to the p2p software companies deliberately.
Re:You're not gonna get a silent Athlon system..
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A VIA C3 can't be compared to Athlons. I own a VIA C3 933 (its in a Shuttle SV24, the first of Shuttle's mini cube computers) and I recently did a LAME encoding test on the VIA C3 933 (on the fv24), a Celeron 300A@450 (on an Abit BH6) and a P3 1Ghz (on a Tyan Trinity 400). Encoding speeds were 1.1x, 1.9x, and 4.0x respectively. If the C3 is that much slower than a 4 year old Celeron, can not compare it to a 1800 Athlon XP.
Using a heat pipe and a slow rpm 80mm fan this new board can keep the 1800 Athlon XP cool, and still keep noise low. The Seagate Barracuda IV drives have been measured at 41.3db (Idle Noise at Storage Review), and they are silent. I have 4 of them, I know.
Robert Novak of PetsWarehouse.com has sued people after they complained about poor service in a public forum according to an article on msnbc.
"Novak claimed humiliation, emotional distress, libelous statements and the dilution of his trademark as a result of the APD posts, which have led, he said in court papers, to "headaches, nausea, nervousness, anxiety, embarrassment, humiliation, and mental distress.""
This is completely missing the point. The point was that a hidden input field in a web page isn't hidden from the user as well as a cookie is. Any monkey can easily change the value of the hidden field by modifying a get string. It takes a bit more monkeying to change a cookie (not a whole lot though)
The issue fixed with solid state disks are rotational latency and seek latency. When faced with a heavy random seek load, platter based drives waste immense amounts of time waiting for either the head, or the disk to be in the correct position to read data. Combined, this takes about 12 ms on a good IDE drive. By contrast, "finding" the correct spot on a solid state disk takes about 10 ns. Thus a random seek pattern on a solid state drive should run about 1,000 times faster. This is the sort of load placed by heavy use of database servers. Slashdot, for instance would benefit from this. Your quake game, would not as most of the reads would be sequential, not random.
Check out Storage Review to see some i/o performance of platter based storage.
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They say the ribbon will mass about 7.5kg/km (about 10lb/mile). 45,000 km of that is 315,000kg, which is less than a jumbo jet, yet its surface area is 45,000,000m x .10m or 4.5 million square meters. Thats a lot of drag. The site has more info.
Focusing on my reflection in the screen would be a whole lot easier if I didn't have one of these damned anti reflective coatings on the monitor. I can't see even the slightest hint of my reflection. Don't they think about magic eyes when they build these things? Maybe I should ask my boss for an office with a window.
Fortunately I have no problems crossing my eyes.
I bet a disaster/rescue version of this might do well in post earthquake or post bombing rubble. Its flexibility might expedite digging out the remains of the world trade center. Although I suppose in case where the stability of the rubble is in question, or there are people under it, stomping around might not be such a good idea.
Functional command line "help":
apropos <keyword>
man <topic>
Centralized service/sofware manager:
chkconfig
/etc/init.d/* <start|stop|restart>
Actually, I'm not sure that it was in italics the first time I read it. If you look at the story again, they've made a change without marking it as updated. It now says "Tack on" instead of "append". I suppose I could have not noticed the italics before, but I'm fairly confident that it didn't start out that way. If I was wrong though, my apologies to the editors. The word choice was still poor though, regardless of who did it.
There is a word for that. It is prepend. If this were graded there would be a -1 Word Choice above that. Come on /. Editors.
Sorry if I'm being pedantic.
A large number of p2p networks don't need any more sabotage than the creators do themselves by bundling the sharing programs with spyware. Nothing has hurt my p2p use more than the difficulty in finding decent p2p programs without malicious malware attached. I'm all for sharing files, but not at the expense of my privacy and system stability. I almost wonder if the Record companies didn't suggest this business model to the p2p software companies deliberately.
A VIA C3 can't be compared to Athlons. I own a VIA C3 933 (its in a Shuttle SV24, the first of Shuttle's mini cube computers) and I recently did a LAME encoding test on the VIA C3 933 (on the fv24), a Celeron 300A@450 (on an Abit BH6) and a P3 1Ghz (on a Tyan Trinity 400). Encoding speeds were 1.1x, 1.9x, and 4.0x respectively. If the C3 is that much slower than a 4 year old Celeron, can not compare it to a 1800 Athlon XP.
Using a heat pipe and a slow rpm 80mm fan this new board can keep the 1800 Athlon XP cool, and still keep noise low. The Seagate Barracuda IV drives have been measured at 41.3db (Idle Noise at Storage Review), and they are silent. I have 4 of them, I know.
Robert Novak of PetsWarehouse.com has sued people after they complained about poor service in a public forum according to an article on msnbc.
"Novak claimed humiliation, emotional distress, libelous statements and the dilution of his trademark as a result of the APD posts, which have led, he said in court papers, to "headaches, nausea, nervousness, anxiety, embarrassment, humiliation, and mental distress.""
http://www.msnbc.com/news/734035.asp
This is completely missing the point. The point was that a hidden input field in a web page isn't hidden from the user as well as a cookie is. Any monkey can easily change the value of the hidden field by modifying a get string. It takes a bit more monkeying to change a cookie (not a whole lot though)
A couple of tanks of halon would give the other drivers a nasty shock too. I doubt killing the other participants is allowed.
The issue fixed with solid state disks are rotational latency and seek latency. When faced with a heavy random seek load, platter based drives waste immense amounts of time waiting for either the head, or the disk to be in the correct position to read data. Combined, this takes about 12 ms on a good IDE drive. By contrast, "finding" the correct spot on a solid state disk takes about 10 ns. Thus a random seek pattern on a solid state drive should run about 1,000 times faster. This is the sort of load placed by heavy use of database servers. Slashdot, for instance would benefit from this. Your quake game, would not as most of the reads would be sequential, not random.
Check out Storage Review to see some i/o performance of platter based storage.
Does anyone else think that this thing looks an awful lot like an i opener. Perhaps this is licensed from the infamous Netpliance?