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So apparently there are some people out there that actually use the prefixes correctly (ignoring the k/K mistake).
As to sig figs... yes. 95]-(105 reported as 100M sounds about right. Almost no one would be surprised at 102M being reported as 100M, and not too many more at 98M being reported as 100M (currency being a non-scientific case where erring low is more legally and socially acceptable).
In what way is a byte "inherently binary"? An 8-bit byte perhaps, although 2^3 is a particularly poor choice of size if you are going to be working with binary, 2^4 would make a lot of the math (and wiring) quite a bit simpler. But then there are 7-bit and 9-bit bytes, and the original standard 6-bit bytes.
SI prefixes mean the same thing in any context, even outside of SI units. They have long since passed into common usage and are accepted in almost any dictionary to mean the same as their SI definitions. When I say $100k, most people understand that kilo means 1000, even though dollars are not SI units (and the k is in the wrong place, for the pedantic).
This is not a case of a word that happens to have a prefix-like spelling (like inflammable, which means "able to be inflamed" instead of "not able to be flamed"). This is a case of someone making a rough approximation 30+ years ago that has been magnified every new order of magnitude of storage size and transfer speed.
It does not have to be combined with SI prefixed units to become ambiguous. 1 kilobyte per second is 6/100 megabytes per minute, and that IS a conversion that normal folks might try to make.
An order of magnitude can be in any base, and it is determined by what you are working with. When discussing time I generally consider an order of magnitude to be 60x.
What is wrong with mebibyte? If you don't like how it sounds then why didn't you suggest something better during the years it was being standardized? You've still got a chance before ISO picks it up, make your voice heard there and maybe the IEEE and IEC will revise their existing standards. I guess you're one of those 80s throwbacks who still calls 1024*1024, 1024*1000, and 1000*1000 bytes all a "megabyte". Or 1024*1024*1024, 1024*1024*1000, and 1000*1000*1000 bytes all "gigabyte".
Sure, 2.4% error might be "nothing", so in the 70s and 80s this was not a bad approximation. But we already have 5-10% error in reported hard drive capacities by programs that get the units wrong. And when I want to know how long it takes to transfer a "terabyte" at 1 "gigabyte" per minute, the difference in 1099 minutes and 931 minutes is pretty significant. Extrapolate that a decade and youve got an "exabyte" at one "petabyte" per minute, 1152 vs 888 minutes throws us up to 30% (yes, THIRTY percent) error.
How close they have to be depends on the quality of the directional antenna on their snooping device. Yes, omnidirectional baby monitors only have a range of a hundred feet or so, but put a cantenna/dish derivative on the reciever and point it in the right direction and youll hear it a mile away.
Sorry. IMHO, They gave up their copyrights when they lobbied for 90+ year copyright terms. Copyright is a good thing. Infinite term copyright is a bad thing. Until copyright terms get fixed I have no moral objection to sharing music and movies. Of course it is illegal, but so is shooting the guy raping your neighbor (in most states).
Imagine a form of representative government where every citizen can either attend legislative sessions themselves, or assign their vote to another citizen as their representative. If you don't like the way your rep is voting, pick another one. If none of the available reps vote the way you want, go make your own votes. Every farmer in america could be represented by one voice. Every auto industry worker. Every accountant. Every homemaker. This is the most perfect form of representative government that I have come across. It would almost directly mirror the behavior of a pure democracy (read: referendum on every issue) without all the expected hassle of everyone spending all their time voting. Reps could be paid by the government proportional [non-linearly] to their constituency, and speaking time while debating issues would be divided in a similar fashion.
I imagine there would be a small number of representatives with millions of constituents, and many with just a few thousand, and a very few people representing just themselves and a few others. If party lines were exact then every Democrat in the country could share one rep, and every Republican with a second. Obviously that wouldn't be the case, but a few reps covering the major divisions of each major party would make up the majority of the few reps with tens of millions of constituents. Reps would not even need to advertise themselves. It would be trivially easy for any citizen to use some sort of public program (online, probably) to indicate how they would vote on the issues important to them and be provided with a list of the reps who vote the same way.
The infrastructure required for such a system would require a verifiable national network of stations for citizens to register their choice of representative. Off the top of my head Post Offices would make good locations. I personally don't see any need for selections to be secret. Secret ballots introduce all sorts of problems with verifiability and accountability. Yes, it would suck if you lost a job because of your choice of rep, but I think that would be fair and such a company would have a problem finding employees.
Corruption would be virtually impossible. Any rep who took money to vote the other way would instantly lose a portion of their constituents relative to how important the issue was. If this same system was used to elect the chief executive then a rep throwing away their career to apply their 10mil votes the other way once would be a possibility, but using this system would imply abandoning the electoral college which means most people could simply choose to bypass their rep and participate directly in this particular vote, resulting in exactly what we have today in the popular election results.
Because we are commiting genocide multiple times a day. On a time scale covering millions of years it doesnt matter if 50% of all species die in one day (meteor impact) or in a thousand years (climate change, homo sapiens), the effect is virtually identical.
It becomes YOURS free and clear with all rights persuant with posession just like any other non-IP product.
Just like any other IP product, actually. You are still bound by copyright law to not distribute copies of the software, produce derivative works, etc.
And leaving anthrax without permission is illegal, regardless of whether you did or did not buy their cookies. The cookie transaction is moot, it has zero impact on the antrax-leaving. That is what the original charges in the case cover, the actual illegal things that Sony did. The EULA is NOT asking for permission to install the rootkit, its asking you to agree to a contract covering other things (reverse engineering, copying, all the other junk in an EULA).
Yes, but an EULA isnt an explanation of what the software does. It is an offer of a contract. If you read it, you will see that you are NOT being asked to give them permission to install the software, youre already in the process of installing it when they prompt you. Installing the software in the first place might be illegal (and probably is), thats what all the original charges in the case cover. Whether you accepted the unrelated EULA has zero bearing on if they broke the law by installing the software.
Put simply, the EULA is not asking "Can we install the software?".
Yes, and leaving a(n armed) paint bomb is illegal for OTHER reasons, and has nothing to do with whether or not you bought their cookies. I am not saying they are innocent of all the other charges, just that specifically the install-after-declined-EULA charge is bogus. If installing spyware/rootkits/etc is illegal then its illegal even if they do accept the EULA, and no more illegal if they decline the EULA.
I have never lived anywhere with this perception. The procedure and handling for any fine handed out by a cop who doesn't bring the criminal to jail is the same. This goes for traffic violations, littering, jaywalking, spitting on the sidewalk, public nudity, etc etc. You only have that misconception because traffic violations make up the extreme majority of such cases, but the situation has been the same since long before traffic violations existed.
The cameras are just another evolution of the system. There is still nothing different about it. They are accusing you of a crime based on some evidence. They provide you the evidence. If you did it, pay the fine. If you didn't then they provide a time and date for you to explain that to a judge. The same goes for being caught doing anything else illegal on camera (whether its accurate or not). If the system is inaccurate enough that it produces a large portion of false positives then there are established channels to have the system removed or invalidated as permitable evidence, as well as civil remedies to recover compensation for your wasted time, but if youre the unlucky guy in a system with a 99.99% true positive rate then just see the judge and be glad the system works.
They do not need to drive at the same time. Such a system would undoubtedly have various levels of alarms for differently levels of unusual activity, and duplicate plates would probably be at the top of the list, but if coverage is (nearly) complete then a lower level alarm would be triggered if the plate suddenly 'warped' across the city (from the victims home, where he parked, to wherever the criminal started using the duplicate) without passing any of the sensors in between.
Of course, this could be circumvented by parking in front of the victims home, while he is asleep, and affixing the duplicates there, but that is far more work, and would still trigger the alarm as soon as the victim drove, even if the criminal wasn't driving at the time.
I assume (with no knowledge of the situation) that there are cameras at filling stations that capture the number. Wrong plate, wrong number, police end up at the wrong home after the theft is reported.
Yeah, you've gotta have a centralized system. Like Microsoft has for all Windows games! No game could ever be great if they have to implement their own master servers and ranking system...
Except EVERY PC GAME FOR THE LAST TWENTY YEARS. Every Unreal game, Counter-Strike (Source), the Battlefield series, etc, they all work just fine over the internet and LAN on their own. PC games have gotten by amazingly well without a centralized system, better than they would have with one. XBox Live is nothing but a fad. The same goes for the DS wifi system (which is already being subverted by homebrew developers to get normal networking). There is no reason to use the same system for join-in-progress games as for join-early games, or for 4 player games as for 128 player games. Allowing game developers to run their own master server, patching system, ranking and matchmaking systems, and overall multiplayer interface however they want is where it's at. It gives them more freedom, more flexibility and power during development, and more control after the game is released.
This goes doubly for cross-platform games. PC gamers will never be able to play against 360 gamers, but there is nothing stopping UT2k7-PS3 from networking with UT2k7-Win32/Linux if the developers are willing to put in the time to make it work (cross-endianness networking is troublesome, but not impossible).
Totally wrong analogy. This has been covered from another point of view many times before here. The prompt regarding the EULA has NOTHING to do with installing the software. You are already in the process of installing the software when the prompt appears. Accepting or declining the EULA simply indicates whether you are willing to accept the restrictions of the agreement in return for the rights it offers. After declining the EULA you are under no obligation to not use the software, and there is no reason for them to abort the installation, that is what the [X] button is for.
To amend your analogy... After youve already invited someone into your house, just because you say you don't want to buy their cookies doesnt mean they have to take the boxes when they leave. They can leave the cookies and walk out, and they are yours to eat or not as you please with no obligations.
it is a matter of volume. you put the cold side of the peltier on something SMALL, like a cpu core or someone's head, and the hot side and heat sink in something BIG, like the atmosphere at large. preferably not with a short airflow path back to the cold side. then your temperature differences are much better.
it wasnt a pastie, it was a piercing. the sun icon was a ring around the nipple, with a bar through the nipple and the ring. find one of the HD screen caps.
The key to a good 4-player (or more) game is being able to hop in and out mid-game. Most Nintendo games never caught on to this. Mario Party XXVI will probably still not have it. XBox hit it on the head with Fusion Frenzy (which we played for 8 hours straight as a demo on the Halo disc, then returned Halo to buy)When was giving your OWN music away for free illegal? .
In the days of AT and PS2 keyboard switching was a problem. These days you can just carry a USB DVORAK (or COLEMAK) keyboard around with you and plug it in wherever youre using it.
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I believe the PSP has better controls, a larger and better lcd, and a faster CPU.
The DS, on the other hand, has DS!
Google says:
Results 1 - 10 of about 449 for kusd musd
So apparently there are some people out there that actually use the prefixes correctly (ignoring the k/K mistake).
As to sig figs... yes. 95]-(105 reported as 100M sounds about right. Almost no one would be surprised at 102M being reported as 100M, and not too many more at 98M being reported as 100M (currency being a non-scientific case where erring low is more legally and socially acceptable).
In what way is a byte "inherently binary"? An 8-bit byte perhaps, although 2^3 is a particularly poor choice of size if you are going to be working with binary, 2^4 would make a lot of the math (and wiring) quite a bit simpler. But then there are 7-bit and 9-bit bytes, and the original standard 6-bit bytes.
SI prefixes mean the same thing in any context, even outside of SI units. They have long since passed into common usage and are accepted in almost any dictionary to mean the same as their SI definitions. When I say $100k, most people understand that kilo means 1000, even though dollars are not SI units (and the k is in the wrong place, for the pedantic).
This is not a case of a word that happens to have a prefix-like spelling (like inflammable, which means "able to be inflamed" instead of "not able to be flamed"). This is a case of someone making a rough approximation 30+ years ago that has been magnified every new order of magnitude of storage size and transfer speed.
It does not have to be combined with SI prefixed units to become ambiguous. 1 kilobyte per second is 6/100 megabytes per minute, and that IS a conversion that normal folks might try to make.
An order of magnitude can be in any base, and it is determined by what you are working with. When discussing time I generally consider an order of magnitude to be 60x.
What is wrong with mebibyte? If you don't like how it sounds then why didn't you suggest something better during the years it was being standardized? You've still got a chance before ISO picks it up, make your voice heard there and maybe the IEEE and IEC will revise their existing standards. I guess you're one of those 80s throwbacks who still calls 1024*1024, 1024*1000, and 1000*1000 bytes all a "megabyte". Or 1024*1024*1024, 1024*1024*1000, and 1000*1000*1000 bytes all "gigabyte".
Sure, 2.4% error might be "nothing", so in the 70s and 80s this was not a bad approximation. But we already have 5-10% error in reported hard drive capacities by programs that get the units wrong. And when I want to know how long it takes to transfer a "terabyte" at 1 "gigabyte" per minute, the difference in 1099 minutes and 931 minutes is pretty significant. Extrapolate that a decade and youve got an "exabyte" at one "petabyte" per minute, 1152 vs 888 minutes throws us up to 30% (yes, THIRTY percent) error.
How close they have to be depends on the quality of the directional antenna on their snooping device. Yes, omnidirectional baby monitors only have a range of a hundred feet or so, but put a cantenna/dish derivative on the reciever and point it in the right direction and youll hear it a mile away.
Sorry. IMHO, They gave up their copyrights when they lobbied for 90+ year copyright terms. Copyright is a good thing. Infinite term copyright is a bad thing. Until copyright terms get fixed I have no moral objection to sharing music and movies. Of course it is illegal, but so is shooting the guy raping your neighbor (in most states).
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Imagine a form of representative government where every citizen can either attend legislative sessions themselves, or assign their vote to another citizen as their representative. If you don't like the way your rep is voting, pick another one. If none of the available reps vote the way you want, go make your own votes. Every farmer in america could be represented by one voice. Every auto industry worker. Every accountant. Every homemaker. This is the most perfect form of representative government that I have come across. It would almost directly mirror the behavior of a pure democracy (read: referendum on every issue) without all the expected hassle of everyone spending all their time voting. Reps could be paid by the government proportional [non-linearly] to their constituency, and speaking time while debating issues would be divided in a similar fashion.
I imagine there would be a small number of representatives with millions of constituents, and many with just a few thousand, and a very few people representing just themselves and a few others. If party lines were exact then every Democrat in the country could share one rep, and every Republican with a second. Obviously that wouldn't be the case, but a few reps covering the major divisions of each major party would make up the majority of the few reps with tens of millions of constituents. Reps would not even need to advertise themselves. It would be trivially easy for any citizen to use some sort of public program (online, probably) to indicate how they would vote on the issues important to them and be provided with a list of the reps who vote the same way.
The infrastructure required for such a system would require a verifiable national network of stations for citizens to register their choice of representative. Off the top of my head Post Offices would make good locations. I personally don't see any need for selections to be secret. Secret ballots introduce all sorts of problems with verifiability and accountability. Yes, it would suck if you lost a job because of your choice of rep, but I think that would be fair and such a company would have a problem finding employees.
Corruption would be virtually impossible. Any rep who took money to vote the other way would instantly lose a portion of their constituents relative to how important the issue was. If this same system was used to elect the chief executive then a rep throwing away their career to apply their 10mil votes the other way once would be a possibility, but using this system would imply abandoning the electoral college which means most people could simply choose to bypass their rep and participate directly in this particular vote, resulting in exactly what we have today in the popular election results.
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Because we are commiting genocide multiple times a day. On a time scale covering millions of years it doesnt matter if 50% of all species die in one day (meteor impact) or in a thousand years (climate change, homo sapiens), the effect is virtually identical.
Some of us don't store pictures on our CF. I have handhelds with their root filesystem on a CF card, which means thousands of writes on a slow day.
It becomes YOURS free and clear with all rights persuant with posession just like any other non-IP product.
Just like any other IP product, actually. You are still bound by copyright law to not distribute copies of the software, produce derivative works, etc.
And leaving anthrax without permission is illegal, regardless of whether you did or did not buy their cookies. The cookie transaction is moot, it has zero impact on the antrax-leaving. That is what the original charges in the case cover, the actual illegal things that Sony did. The EULA is NOT asking for permission to install the rootkit, its asking you to agree to a contract covering other things (reverse engineering, copying, all the other junk in an EULA).
Yes, but an EULA isnt an explanation of what the software does. It is an offer of a contract. If you read it, you will see that you are NOT being asked to give them permission to install the software, youre already in the process of installing it when they prompt you. Installing the software in the first place might be illegal (and probably is), thats what all the original charges in the case cover. Whether you accepted the unrelated EULA has zero bearing on if they broke the law by installing the software.
Put simply, the EULA is not asking "Can we install the software?".
Yes, and leaving a(n armed) paint bomb is illegal for OTHER reasons, and has nothing to do with whether or not you bought their cookies. I am not saying they are innocent of all the other charges, just that specifically the install-after-declined-EULA charge is bogus. If installing spyware/rootkits/etc is illegal then its illegal even if they do accept the EULA, and no more illegal if they decline the EULA.
I have never lived anywhere with this perception. The procedure and handling for any fine handed out by a cop who doesn't bring the criminal to jail is the same. This goes for traffic violations, littering, jaywalking, spitting on the sidewalk, public nudity, etc etc. You only have that misconception because traffic violations make up the extreme majority of such cases, but the situation has been the same since long before traffic violations existed.
The cameras are just another evolution of the system. There is still nothing different about it. They are accusing you of a crime based on some evidence. They provide you the evidence. If you did it, pay the fine. If you didn't then they provide a time and date for you to explain that to a judge. The same goes for being caught doing anything else illegal on camera (whether its accurate or not). If the system is inaccurate enough that it produces a large portion of false positives then there are established channels to have the system removed or invalidated as permitable evidence, as well as civil remedies to recover compensation for your wasted time, but if youre the unlucky guy in a system with a 99.99% true positive rate then just see the judge and be glad the system works.
They do not need to drive at the same time. Such a system would undoubtedly have various levels of alarms for differently levels of unusual activity, and duplicate plates would probably be at the top of the list, but if coverage is (nearly) complete then a lower level alarm would be triggered if the plate suddenly 'warped' across the city (from the victims home, where he parked, to wherever the criminal started using the duplicate) without passing any of the sensors in between.
Of course, this could be circumvented by parking in front of the victims home, while he is asleep, and affixing the duplicates there, but that is far more work, and would still trigger the alarm as soon as the victim drove, even if the criminal wasn't driving at the time.
I assume (with no knowledge of the situation) that there are cameras at filling stations that capture the number. Wrong plate, wrong number, police end up at the wrong home after the theft is reported.
Can you say "Aerobraking"? And, ignoring that, if said 'mobile' impacts the planet i seriously doubt it will escape.
Yeah, you've gotta have a centralized system. Like Microsoft has for all Windows games! No game could ever be great if they have to implement their own master servers and ranking system...
Except EVERY PC GAME FOR THE LAST TWENTY YEARS. Every Unreal game, Counter-Strike (Source), the Battlefield series, etc, they all work just fine over the internet and LAN on their own. PC games have gotten by amazingly well without a centralized system, better than they would have with one. XBox Live is nothing but a fad. The same goes for the DS wifi system (which is already being subverted by homebrew developers to get normal networking). There is no reason to use the same system for join-in-progress games as for join-early games, or for 4 player games as for 128 player games. Allowing game developers to run their own master server, patching system, ranking and matchmaking systems, and overall multiplayer interface however they want is where it's at. It gives them more freedom, more flexibility and power during development, and more control after the game is released.
This goes doubly for cross-platform games. PC gamers will never be able to play against 360 gamers, but there is nothing stopping UT2k7-PS3 from networking with UT2k7-Win32/Linux if the developers are willing to put in the time to make it work (cross-endianness networking is troublesome, but not impossible).
Totally wrong analogy. This has been covered from another point of view many times before here. The prompt regarding the EULA has NOTHING to do with installing the software. You are already in the process of installing the software when the prompt appears. Accepting or declining the EULA simply indicates whether you are willing to accept the restrictions of the agreement in return for the rights it offers. After declining the EULA you are under no obligation to not use the software, and there is no reason for them to abort the installation, that is what the [X] button is for.
To amend your analogy... After youve already invited someone into your house, just because you say you don't want to buy their cookies doesnt mean they have to take the boxes when they leave. They can leave the cookies and walk out, and they are yours to eat or not as you please with no obligations.
it is a matter of volume. you put the cold side of the peltier on something SMALL, like a cpu core or someone's head, and the hot side and heat sink in something BIG, like the atmosphere at large. preferably not with a short airflow path back to the cold side. then your temperature differences are much better.
it wasnt a pastie, it was a piercing. the sun icon was a ring around the nipple, with a bar through the nipple and the ring. find one of the HD screen caps.
The key to a good 4-player (or more) game is being able to hop in and out mid-game. Most Nintendo games never caught on to this. Mario Party XXVI will probably still not have it. XBox hit it on the head with Fusion Frenzy (which we played for 8 hours straight as a demo on the Halo disc, then returned Halo to buy)When was giving your OWN music away for free illegal?
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When was giving your OWN music away for free illegal?
As soon as the RIAA can lobby for it!
In the days of AT and PS2 keyboard switching was a problem. These days you can just carry a USB DVORAK (or COLEMAK) keyboard around with you and plug it in wherever youre using it.