I prefer Stacker and their memory compressor for Windows 3.11 was awesome too. Still this wouldn't solve the maximum filesize issue that multipart volumes with RAR does solve.
Lucky you. If I deposit 5000eur this morning, the bank says that they haven't offered cheque services in years but instead I can use my bank card for payments and the money is available immediately after depositing it.
The article says this new technology boosts the number of write cycles from 3000 to 50000. Sounds good, but then again, SLC flash in 1991 supported 1million writes and MLC 100.000 writes. Later consumer grade MLC flash claimed to handle 10000 writes and Micron is selling MLC flash that supports 30000 writes and I recall AMD having MLCs with 100.000 writes. Maybe the 3000 writes MLC is high density & as cheap as possible kind of flash and this new Israeli technology works on that. But unless it is cheaper than Micron flash, I don't see why would anyone use it.
Well, I was aware of the case where they removed the BSD license, which is a no-no. But I was thinking more generally and thought that the BSD developer doesn't care if his code is GPL'ed or put into some closed source app. In both cases the modifications are copyrighted to the new author and licensed under non-BSD license.
I thought that relicensing BSD stuff as GPL was totally ok by BSD people, especially if it is equivalent of making it proprietary. Or am I missing something?
That sounds kinda silly way to do lottery. Here the pot is known in advance cause it consist only of the previous weeks lottery tickets. Also the pot is paid full to the winners, not over 20 years or so.
You can cross Finland out of that list, I've checked and all the patents MPEG-LA lists are actually expired in Finland. I wouldn't be suprised if that was true for many of the other EU patents.
Pre-allocation on XFS nice because it doesn't actually write zeroes on the disk as other filesystems might do. Azureus and rtorrent (with a compile option) both support this, probably other torrent clients too.
Didn't Amiga support 4096 colors in HAM-mode? Wouldn't this be better than Apple's 3200 colors? Though both modes were quite cpu intensive and couldn't really be used for animations or games.
There are some un-skippable nonsense on DVDs. I have two Sony DVD players, but are region freed. The older allows skipping at all times, but the new player just flashes an message 'Not allowed at this time'. It also wont allow fastforwarding etc. The old player was similar before it was modified to be region free. Sadly it seems that almost all el'cheapo DVD players do allow skipping.
Ah, but maybe by downloading the code from the server, you get extra bill and have to close that server. Now the code is gone from the public and if it is BSD licensed the downloader can keep it closed, but if it is GPLed, she cannot do that.
Well, if you use tmpfs and not ramdisk for/tmp, then pages will be swapped to disk if needed, thus you can burn you DVD as long as you have enough swap available and damons like swapd or swapspace allow you to have reasonable size swap partition and then will create swapfiles by demand.
The biggest advantage, atleast for me, for VDSL2 over ADSL2+ is the upstream bandwidth. I can easily live with 25Mbps connection, maybe even with 10Mbps, if I get atleast 5Mbps up. Currently I have both connection types in use at my home and the VDSL2 connects at 54M/46M and ADSL2+ at 22M/1.9M. HTTP traffic is load balanced over both connections, gaming traffic goes over the ADSL2+ and everything else uses the VDSL2. Finally I can upload files to my servers in just minutes, not hours.
I have two connections at home, 24M/1M ADSL2+ and 100M/64M VDSL2 and I get 22M/1M and 56M/45M connections with them. Latency is 4-7ms on both connections to the ISPs backbone, after that it shouldn't matter which technology I use, that latency is not up to me. Still, latency within my country is under 15ms and under 20ms to the next country. Generally I get under 50ms latency within European countries with fast internet backbones and about 150ms to USA.
Haven't noticed any drop outs, but it just might be due to short distance to the DSLAM though I have a friend who lives at the maximum range from the DSLAM and only gets 256k/256k ADSL connection and doesn't suffer from these dropouts.
Also, if you are good, you can adapt to higher latency. I used to play Unreal Tournament and was very competitive even though my latency usually was 125ms or more, sometimes even over 200ms.
My experiences with cable have been quite bad, though at the time there was only available 10M/768k connection and that 768k upstream was shared with all the neighbours, you got maybe 512k burst speed, 256k for couple minutes and then you were capped to 128k for several hours.
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I prefer Stacker and their memory compressor for Windows 3.11 was awesome too. Still this wouldn't solve the maximum filesize issue that multipart volumes with RAR does solve.
Better just use RAR and compress them with recovery record, multipart and password.
Lucky you. If I deposit 5000eur this morning, the bank says that they haven't offered cheque services in years but instead I can use my bank card for payments and the money is available immediately after depositing it.
The article says this new technology boosts the number of write cycles from 3000 to 50000. Sounds good, but then again, SLC flash in 1991 supported 1million writes and MLC 100.000 writes. Later consumer grade MLC flash claimed to handle 10000 writes and Micron is selling MLC flash that supports 30000 writes and I recall AMD having MLCs with 100.000 writes. Maybe the 3000 writes MLC is high density & as cheap as possible kind of flash and this new Israeli technology works on that. But unless it is cheaper than Micron flash, I don't see why would anyone use it.
Well, I was aware of the case where they removed the BSD license, which is a no-no. But I was thinking more generally and thought that the BSD developer doesn't care if his code is GPL'ed or put into some closed source app. In both cases the modifications are copyrighted to the new author and licensed under non-BSD license.
I thought that relicensing BSD stuff as GPL was totally ok by BSD people, especially if it is equivalent of making it proprietary. Or am I missing something?
I would assume that the image would be cached in most cases, either in the browser or in the ISPs proxy.
I thought C++ was allowed? And what is wrong with plain C? And there is always inline assembler, that is what true developers use.
Well, if Google only had 10-20% of the search market, I am sure they would be allowed to ban anyone from their seach index with just about any reason.
I agree. Why are video game movies so awful? Because of Uwe Boll.
Cars like Opel/Vauxhall/Chevrolet Zafira has been available since -99 and has 7 seats and does 39MPG, no need for minivans.
That sounds kinda silly way to do lottery. Here the pot is known in advance cause it consist only of the previous weeks lottery tickets. Also the pot is paid full to the winners, not over 20 years or so.
That is one of the perks of using language with phonetic (kinda) writing system.
You can cross Finland out of that list, I've checked and all the patents MPEG-LA lists are actually expired in Finland. I wouldn't be suprised if that was true for many of the other EU patents.
Pre-allocation on XFS nice because it doesn't actually write zeroes on the disk as other filesystems might do. Azureus and rtorrent (with a compile option) both support this, probably other torrent clients too.
Didn't Amiga support 4096 colors in HAM-mode? Wouldn't this be better than Apple's 3200 colors? Though both modes were quite cpu intensive and couldn't really be used for animations or games.
Almost zero, there is some cost for allowing pirated Windows to download updates and such.
UAC takes care of the permissions problem. And I am sure there are similar mechanisms for other operating systems.
Oh I wish that "cancel (username)" would work :)
Yay, I want to see GovTube..
There are some un-skippable nonsense on DVDs. I have two Sony DVD players, but are region freed. The older allows skipping at all times, but the new player just flashes an message 'Not allowed at this time'. It also wont allow fastforwarding etc. The old player was similar before it was modified to be region free. Sadly it seems that almost all el'cheapo DVD players do allow skipping.
Ah, but maybe by downloading the code from the server, you get extra bill and have to close that server. Now the code is gone from the public and if it is BSD licensed the downloader can keep it closed, but if it is GPLed, she cannot do that.
Well, if you use tmpfs and not ramdisk for /tmp, then pages will be swapped to disk if needed, thus you can burn you DVD as long as you have enough swap available and damons like swapd or swapspace allow you to have reasonable size swap partition and then will create swapfiles by demand.
The biggest advantage, atleast for me, for VDSL2 over ADSL2+ is the upstream bandwidth. I can easily live with 25Mbps connection, maybe even with 10Mbps, if I get atleast 5Mbps up. Currently I have both connection types in use at my home and the VDSL2 connects at 54M/46M and ADSL2+ at 22M/1.9M. HTTP traffic is load balanced over both connections, gaming traffic goes over the ADSL2+ and everything else uses the VDSL2. Finally I can upload files to my servers in just minutes, not hours.
I have two connections at home, 24M/1M ADSL2+ and 100M/64M VDSL2 and I get 22M/1M and 56M/45M connections with them. Latency is 4-7ms on both connections to the ISPs backbone, after that it shouldn't matter which technology I use, that latency is not up to me. Still, latency within my country is under 15ms and under 20ms to the next country. Generally I get under 50ms latency within European countries with fast internet backbones and about 150ms to USA.
Haven't noticed any drop outs, but it just might be due to short distance to the DSLAM though I have a friend who lives at the maximum range from the DSLAM and only gets 256k/256k ADSL connection and doesn't suffer from these dropouts.
Also, if you are good, you can adapt to higher latency. I used to play Unreal Tournament and was very competitive even though my latency usually was 125ms or more, sometimes even over 200ms.
My experiences with cable have been quite bad, though at the time there was only available 10M/768k connection and that 768k upstream was shared with all the neighbours, you got maybe 512k burst speed, 256k for couple minutes and then you were capped to 128k for several hours.