Most file systems store files using a multi-way tree format. Each block stores a particular amount data and contains links to the next sets of data blocks. This way, if you write a small block of data to the start of a file (at offset 0), and at some far distant point (+maxint = 2 gigabytes), the file system will only store those two blocks plus the hierarchy to find those blocks, and not the whole 2 gigabytes.
That would happen. Your e-mail application constantly sends out receive new mail requests (IMAP/POP/SMTP) to the email server. These can happen as often as every minute or once a day. That's all going to add up. Just sitting idle, a PC is going to receive and send packets depending on the what applications are running. It's no fun being billed a good five pounds simply to receive two weeks worth of spam.
Would being underwater shield fish (and their DNA) from the mutation causing effects of radiation and other factors in the environment? Although, there was a research study that showed there were something like a million virus particle per litre of sea water.
Except France, which in order for a foreigner to purchase Mobicarte (a PAYG card, but mainly for teenagers/students), requires that you provide a copy of your passport), which even then didn't support 3G services. So it was back to running kppp with vodafone and orange settings.
The same happens in Europe - I used a GPRS modem and PAYG sim card to surf the internet. The data transfer fees were around $10 per megabyte (or $5 per slashdot discussion).
There was a woman who got hit with an $16000 charge for watching a streamed version of a TV series episode while abroad.
You would think that it would be possible to have a pre-agreed credit limit on a mobile phone account to prevent such events from happening.
You don't need to - there are many websites which will automatically check to see if they are being visited by a Phorm server. If they are, then they place a warning message on the webpage you (or the Phorm server) have attempted to download.
I had an old drive which failed - one of those laptop Travelstar's that were known as 'deathstars' for the number of times they had died from overheating. Data recovery companies gave me a quote for anywhere between 300 pounds and 800 pounds, depending upon whether they would have to remove the spindle/platters from the drive and place them into a new one.
Fortunately, I managed to recover all the data from this drive for free, by putting it in external USB enclosure, place this in a freezer to cool it down, then give the enclosure a quick twist once the enclosure was plugged into an USB port. That was enough to recover the data.
You can recover the partition data of a drive erased using 'fdisk' by running the 'testdisk' utility. (written by Christophe Grenier of http://www.cgsecurity.org/">CG Security
Large blocks of ice thousands of years old are breaking off and move along the ocean currents until they melt. During the winter months, the surface water freezes. Given that 90% of an iceberg is underwater, wouldn't this mean that the water itself is warming and not the atmosphere?
These machines are used to work on simulations that involve aerodynamics and hydrodynamics, quantum electrodynamics (QED), or electromagnetohydrodynamics. All of these simulations require that a mathematical model is constructed from a high density mesh of data points (2048 ^ 3). Blocks of such points are allocated to individual processors. Because of this, each processor must be able to communicate at a high speed with its neighbours (up to 26 neighbours with a cubic mesh).
Usually, the actual individual calculations per element will be take up less than a page of mathematical equations, but require high precision, so the data values will be 64-bit floating point quantities. A single element might require 20 or more variables. Thus the need for some many processors and high clock speed.
So the South Koreans or anyone else for that matter, will just invent their own home testing kit, thereby saving the USA companies the hassle of performing these tests.
(And I'd sooner drive a nail through my face than live anywhere in the UK except London. London seems to have it's own culture, different from the rest of the UK.)
From the news reports the rest of the country hears about stabbings, muggings for mobile phones and ipods, protestors being herded and corraled into side-streets, rooms being rented out for hundreds of pounds per week, most UK'ers would probably drive a nail through their face than live anywhere except the outside of London.
I've been to three universities so far; one of the "new" universities", a "traditional" university with a focus on theory (some of which was 10 years ahead of commercial products), and a "applied research" university with a focus on industrial partners).
Each have their own advantages and disadvantages.
The "new" university had the advantage of small class sizes in modern teaching rooms (overhead projectors), which meant a good staff/student ratio - because the staff didn't have any MSc's or PhD students, they were dedicated entirely to their undergrad students). Since courses were geared to local industry, the equipment was state of the art for each year. But since there were no research programs, you would have to move elsewhere to do research.
The "traditional" university had large classes; well over 300+ students for popular subjects like C++ programming or parallel processing. There were held in huge lecture halls with wooden benches. While this meant there were a huge number of research groups to choose from, it also meant it was far harder to get help from staff as they would be busy publishig papers with their PhD students. Very often, undergraduate and masters degree students were told that they should ask each other for help before bothering a member of staff. Unfortunately, there were only a very small number of funded PhD positions.
The "applied research" university is much the same, but there are far more funded research positions available due to the sponsorship from industry.
I would also say that other factors which influence the types of student a university gets, include the type of local industry, the distance to the nearest shops, cafes and restaurants, quality public transportation and local accomodation.
Ryanair chooses the cheap airports because they have lower airport handling fees, and they usually get an subsidy from the local city of the airport in return from locating there (more passengers = more hotel bookings, conference center bookings, rail tickets and taxi fares).
There is a fee for more than one bag, though it is cheaper having one half empty large sized bag, hat it is to have two fully stuffed small bags.
If you book in advance and get one of those 1 pound tickets, then the remaining 60 pounds of the price of the ticket is the airport fees themselves.
Texas Instruments did that with their TMS34010's and TMS34020's in the 1990's. You could add as much VRAM as you liked (up to 8 Megabytes - which was 12 times as much memory was on the Intel CPU side). Some companies even added network card chips onto the graphics card, so the software network driver wouldn't slow down image viewing.
If you are that good as a IT admin (or any other position, for that matter), if you are that good, they will have already done more damage to the company by firing you, that you could do deliberately back to them.
Recruiters estimate that simply by firing one person and hiring another, a company will lose around $120,000 in productivity alone; HR and accounting paperwork to fire that person, redundancy payments for several months in advance, along with recruiters fees to find someone new, time taken by existing employees to interview possible candidates, more HR and accounting paperwork to hire the person if there is a match, and time taken by the new employee to get up to speed. Not even considering that other people may be waiting for various tasks to be completed by the person in that position.
It's actually based on the frequency of a transition in cesium, but the point is that these transitions are sensitive to the fine structure constant. If some field from the sun is changing that, it should be detectable in atomic clocks.
Then an atomic clock in orbit around the Earth should speed up when it is nearest the Sun, and slow down when it is behind the Earth?
Maybe people don't like the attitude of the telephone company. Particularly those telephone companies that ask people whether they intend making international calls and requiring a deposit if the customer says yes, but require no deposit if the customer says no (Bell Canada), or requires three items of identification such as a passport, electricity bill, and rental agreement before they will connect a telephone line (British Telecom). Cable TV company at the time (Telewest) just required a valid credit card number.
Virgin media seem to have their own little firewall targeting a selection of sites. I came across the configuration page that allow users to block the following websites:
Encyclopedia Brittanica freeloader.com LEGO tweenies.com expresso education sonicselector musicchoice newsplayer.com napster vidzone metaboli photobox Premium Games from Virgin Media
I never understood why anyone would want to block Encyclopedia Brittanica or LEGO?
I usually have the torx bit close to hand, and it is easier to (un)tighten them than a phillips. I don't mind them at all.
If you have exactly the right screwdriver, they are a breeze to remove. If you don't have exactly the right screwdriver, they are almost impossible to remove, thus delaying the decommissioning of a system for two days until a toolkit could be delivered.
Maybe the techs didn't have the right screwdriver to remove the hard disk drive? For some bizarre reason, certain manufacturers seem to delight in using Torx screws (hexagon socket) to secure their hard disk drives, while everything else is the standard PC screw (Reference diagram). The only way to remove this type of screw without damage is to have the exact Torx screwdriver available.
If the disks were in a RAID array, care would have to be taken to make sure they were replaced in the exact sequence as they were in the original system. But, most IT departments aren't allowed to disassemble/assemble hardware - they either get a service technician to come in, or send the hardware back by courier.
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That's a pity.
Most file systems store files using a multi-way tree format. Each block stores a particular amount data and contains links to the next sets of data blocks. This way, if you write a small block of data to the start of a file (at offset 0), and at some far distant point (+maxint = 2 gigabytes), the file system will only store those two blocks plus the hierarchy to find those blocks, and not the whole 2 gigabytes.
The Sony walkman would have the same quality of headphones that come w with a set of PC headphones (Labtec etc...).
But 32K of memory would take up an entire circuit board.
A 1970's cellphone is probably the closest thing that would match.. If you really want, you can buy a working replica Brick cellphone.
That would happen. Your e-mail application constantly sends out receive new mail requests (IMAP/POP/SMTP) to the email server. These can happen as often as every minute or once a day. That's all going to add up. Just sitting idle, a PC is going to receive and send packets depending on the what applications are running. It's no fun being billed a good five pounds simply to receive two weeks worth of spam.
Would being underwater shield fish (and their DNA) from the mutation causing effects of radiation and other factors in the environment? Although, there was a research study that showed there were something like a million virus particle per litre of sea water.
Except France, which in order for a foreigner to purchase Mobicarte (a PAYG card, but mainly for teenagers/students), requires that you provide a copy of your passport), which even then didn't support 3G services. So it was back to running kppp with vodafone and orange settings.
The same happens in Europe - I used a GPRS modem and PAYG sim card to surf the internet. The data transfer fees were around $10 per megabyte (or $5 per slashdot discussion).
There was a woman who got hit with an $16000 charge for watching a streamed version of a TV series episode while abroad.
You would think that it would be possible to have a pre-agreed credit limit on a mobile phone account to prevent such events from happening.
You don't need to - there are many websites which will automatically check to see if they are being visited by a Phorm server. If they are, then they place a warning message on the webpage you (or the Phorm server) have attempted to download.
I had an old drive which failed - one of those laptop Travelstar's that were known as 'deathstars' for the number of times they had died from overheating. Data recovery companies gave me a quote for anywhere between 300 pounds and 800 pounds, depending upon whether they would have to remove the spindle/platters from the drive and place them into a new one.
Fortunately, I managed to recover all the data from this drive for free, by putting it in external USB enclosure, place this in a freezer to cool it down, then give the enclosure a quick twist once the enclosure was plugged into an USB port. That was enough to recover the data.
You can recover the partition data of a drive erased using 'fdisk' by running the 'testdisk' utility.
(written by Christophe Grenier of http://www.cgsecurity.org/">CG Security
I wonder if they will be able to get some more high resolution images like:
High resolution image of Solar Granulation
And some animations: Sun spot #1 Sun spot #2
That would be the Parisians. But the French fishermen would blockade the harbours, the French truckers would blockade the ferry ports and oil refineries, while the French farmers will blockade strategic locations such as the trains, the tunnels, and Disneyland.
Large blocks of ice thousands of years old are breaking off and move along the ocean currents until they melt. During the winter months, the surface water freezes. Given that 90% of an iceberg is underwater, wouldn't this mean that the water itself is warming and not the atmosphere?
These machines are used to work on simulations that involve aerodynamics and hydrodynamics, quantum electrodynamics (QED), or electromagnetohydrodynamics. All of these simulations require that a mathematical model is constructed from a high density mesh of data points (2048 ^ 3). Blocks of such points are allocated to individual processors. Because of this, each processor must be able to communicate at a high speed with its neighbours (up to 26 neighbours with a cubic mesh).
Usually, the actual individual calculations per element will be take up less than a page of mathematical equations, but require high precision, so the data values will be 64-bit floating point quantities. A single element might require 20 or more variables. Thus the need for some many processors and high clock speed.
So the South Koreans or anyone else for that matter, will just invent their own home testing kit, thereby saving the USA companies the hassle of performing these tests.
I always like that term in "Elite" and "nationstates.net", the "Corporate Dictatorship".
(And I'd sooner drive a nail through my face than live anywhere in the UK except London. London seems to have it's own culture, different from the rest of the UK.)
From the news reports the rest of the country hears about stabbings, muggings for mobile phones and ipods, protestors being herded and corraled into side-streets, rooms being rented out for hundreds of pounds per week, most UK'ers would probably drive a nail through their face than live anywhere except the outside of London.
I've been to three universities so far; one of the "new" universities", a "traditional" university with a focus on theory (some of which was 10 years ahead of commercial products), and a "applied research" university with a focus on industrial partners).
Each have their own advantages and disadvantages.
The "new" university had the advantage of small class sizes in modern teaching rooms (overhead projectors), which meant a good staff/student ratio - because the staff didn't have any MSc's or PhD students, they were dedicated entirely to their undergrad students). Since courses were geared to local industry, the equipment was state of the art for each year. But since there were no research programs, you would have to move elsewhere to do research.
The "traditional" university had large classes; well over 300+ students for popular subjects like C++ programming or parallel processing. There were held in huge lecture halls with wooden benches. While this meant there were a huge number of research groups to choose from, it also meant it was far harder to get help from staff as they would be busy publishig papers with their PhD students. Very often, undergraduate and masters degree students were told that they should ask each other for help before bothering a member of staff. Unfortunately, there were only a very small number of funded PhD positions.
The "applied research" university is much the same, but there are far more funded research positions available due to the sponsorship from industry.
I would also say that other factors which influence the types of student a university gets, include the type of local industry, the distance to the nearest shops, cafes and restaurants, quality public transportation and local accomodation.
Ryanair chooses the cheap airports because they have lower airport handling fees, and they usually get an subsidy from the local city of the airport in return from locating there (more passengers = more hotel bookings, conference center bookings, rail tickets and taxi fares).
There is a fee for more than one bag, though it is cheaper having one half empty large sized bag, hat it is to have two fully stuffed small bags.
If you book in advance and get one of those 1 pound tickets, then the remaining 60 pounds of the price of the ticket is the airport fees themselves.
Texas Instruments did that with their TMS34010's and TMS34020's in the 1990's. You could add as much VRAM as you liked (up to 8 Megabytes - which was 12 times as much memory was on the Intel CPU side). Some companies even added network card chips onto the graphics card, so the software network driver wouldn't slow down image viewing.
If you are that good as a IT admin (or any other position, for that matter), if you are that good, they will have already done more damage to the company by firing you, that you could do deliberately back to them.
Recruiters estimate that simply by firing one person and hiring another, a company will lose around $120,000 in productivity alone; HR and accounting paperwork to fire that person, redundancy payments for several months in advance, along with recruiters fees to find someone new, time taken by existing employees to interview possible candidates, more HR and accounting paperwork to hire the person if there is a match, and time taken by the new employee to get up to speed. Not even considering that other people may be waiting for various tasks to be completed by the person in that position.
It's actually based on the frequency of a transition in cesium, but the point is that these transitions are sensitive to the fine structure constant. If some field from the sun is changing that, it should be detectable in atomic clocks.
Then an atomic clock in orbit around the Earth should speed up when it is nearest the Sun, and slow down when it is behind the Earth?
Would Radioisotope thermoelectric generators generate more energy when closer to the Sun, than away from the Sun, or simply shielded from it?
The parent company probably has a site licence - our technicians use these to install the standard build on all PC's.
Maybe people don't like the attitude of the telephone company. Particularly those telephone companies that ask people whether they intend making international calls and requiring a deposit if the customer says yes, but require no deposit if the customer says no (Bell Canada), or requires three items of identification such as a passport, electricity bill, and rental agreement before they will connect a telephone line (British Telecom). Cable TV company at the time (Telewest) just required a valid credit card number.
Virgin media seem to have their own little firewall targeting a selection of sites. I came across the configuration page that allow users to block the following websites:
Encyclopedia Brittanica
freeloader.com
LEGO
tweenies.com
expresso education
sonicselector
musicchoice
newsplayer.com
napster
vidzone
metaboli
photobox
Premium Games from Virgin Media
I never understood why anyone would want to block Encyclopedia Brittanica or LEGO?
I usually have the torx bit close to hand, and it is easier to (un)tighten them than a phillips. I don't mind them at all.
If you have exactly the right screwdriver, they are a breeze to remove. If you don't have exactly the right screwdriver, they are almost impossible to remove, thus delaying the decommissioning of a system for two days until a toolkit could be delivered.
Maybe the techs didn't have the right screwdriver to remove the hard disk drive? For some bizarre reason, certain manufacturers seem to delight in using Torx screws (hexagon socket) to secure their hard disk drives, while everything else is the standard PC screw (Reference diagram). The only way to remove this type of screw without damage is to have the exact Torx screwdriver available.
If the disks were in a RAID array, care would have to be taken to make sure they were replaced in the exact sequence as they were in the original system. But, most IT departments aren't allowed to disassemble/assemble hardware - they either get a service technician to come in, or send the hardware back by courier.