the licensing deal only netted Marvel $62 million.
Are you trying to imply that 62 MILLION dollars is not enough for a single SIGNATURE at the base of a contract ?!? Now at least they will have to do some work...
Superzeros suck anyways, don't you americans have any other form of comic book ? You know, like something the reader can identify with, with real stories and some brain instead of shiny muscles ? I mean, for one genius Hard Boiled or Sin City, you get 2000 garbage super/spider/whateverman comics that turn into even more horrendous movies.
You can't use it to calibrate anything, the wear and tear caused by the friction of handling would eventually change it's mass and defy it's purpose.
Yes you can. The problem with the current reference weight is that it cannot be reproduced. Here you have a definition: this volume (4/3.Pi.R^3) contains such an amount of Si atoms. We define their individual mass and we define the whole sphere to be one kilo, ergo we can build another one. Just like defining the meter as a distance covered by light, here it's the weight of a given number of atoms.
Everyone else in this thread failed to properly answer the original question, which is fairly obvious: not everybody can purchase a stack of disks at the same time to create a big RAID and then toss the whole thing 2 years later. Swapping the smallest drive for the newest and biggest every year or so is a dream come true if you can preserve reliability while still optimizing drive space.
And it's funny to see that half the posts go 'hardware RAID' while the other half go 'software RAID'. The latter will lockup if a single drive crashes (low uptime) while the former is impossible to rebuilt without the exact same hardware in stock.
I gave a try to erlang and it is indeed an ingenuous (but didn't Ada do the same things 20 years ago) and simple (too simple, there's no useful library) language. Until the OS and the compiler itself can be written with the language, is there any point in trying to use it ? (except for playing around that is).
One solution I would like to see is the following:
In all the RAIDs I've seen all the disks must have the same sizes, which is a big expense when it's just for your personal photo storage needs. I'd like to see some kind of RAID that can take anything, just adding to it regularly to increase either storage size or redundancy or both in a controlled manner.
The reason is that I purchase a new drive every year or so, so I currently have 60G, 120Gb, 200Gb, 250Gb, 400Gb, 500Gb... Currently they are all mounted in different ways, but I'd love to have an enclosure where I can just add a new bigger disk and remove the oldest and smallest and keep going. Bonus point if I can plug it into the RJ45 of my adsl/wifi router or the USB of my laptop.
Does such a thing exist, it's exactly what I want ? Thanks
I never said they are stupid, I just didn't know the reason. But I'm still surprised that my plastic watch can withstand 4 bars (~30m depth) when a much easier to harden HD cannot... Why should there be metal fatigue on a static enclosure ?!?
Ture, I work for the fr gov, and there's wine available at the office restaurant. But in the 4 months I've been here, no one has touched the stuff. I've seen people grab a bottle when there are suits (read vendors) around, or maybe the rare celebration. But bring an american in there and he'll be drunk on the spot. Liberty is the liberty to choose, not to abuse.
Anyway, back on topic, I think biking to work is the best all around solution to the work/exercise. And I'd better go before it starts raining !
I understand the need for air to keep the head flying off the surface of the platter. What I don't understand is the need to have a hole to exchange the air with the outside. Can't they just fill it with neutral gas at the optimum pressure and seal the damn thing ? I say that because I've used hard drive at high altitude and they FAIL often. I mean, if they can do it with salad, why can't they do it to HDs ?
It works both ways. I recently had to call for support in England, which according to my sources is the place the english language originated. I couldn't understand most of what the lady at the end of the line had to say. It was like she kept her mouth wide open while speaking... Don't they have Hollywood or Bollywood movies in England to teach them proper international english ?!? C;-)
I should have thought to ask this before now nobody will see it... I've been searching for such a software before, but none of those tested will handle embedded color profiles. It's fairly simple: if you submit a large image with an embedded color profile different from sRGB, the image gets saved, a medium sized image is created for web display by converting it to sRGB and also a thumbnail the same way. Also if you submit a TIF or (god forbid), a RAW, the app should try to convert it to jpg. I wrote my own in bash+cgi+ImageMagick but it's buggy and not ready for prime time. Anything better ?!?
You are right. I'd love to see my cell provider provide me with a bill that clearly states: you have paid $$$ this month under your current service plan. Now if you had used plan B you would have paid $$$, and $$$ with plan C, etc... listing all their options. Except that they'll never do that, they are all too happy to see you waste your time thinking you got a better deal. What a waste.
I used to live in the US and I found that the ads there were the most annoying ever. In particular the kind of superfast disclaimers that they often read at the end (usually on radio, but sometimes on TV ads too), you know the kind that goes: "thisproductcancausetoenailfunguslossofgenitalhair onlylegalabove12yearsofagenotappliacableinalaska.. ." in less than one second.
How do they read stuff so fast anyway; through some kind of computer speed up system ?
Is there a name for this kind of fast disclaimer (I'm sure there is) ?
Anyway, just one more reason to avoid watching TV or listening to CCC.
having the body of a 150 year old who would normally have died 80 years ago for 100 years is quite another. So be careful what you wish for when you ask for longer lifespans. Make sure you read the fine print first
So if we live 50% slower (because of energy deprivation), we actually live 50% longer. Whoah, what a great dicovery... It's exactly the opposite of Achilles' choice: either to be a great and famous hero and die young or to live a long happy life without any lasting fame. We all know how it ended.
Too bad it got dumped in Vista. I've heard it will be included in service pack 1 though.
So where do you get this PowerShell ? Next version of Vista, already installed somewhere hidden in XP ? Separate free download ? Payware ? Server versions of the OS only ?
I remember watching this video about the sexual life of Bonobo apes (cousins of chimpanzee with a social life very similar to humans in many respects, in particular sex). One funny part was a young male coming to a female resting on a branch with a banana. The males makes it very clear what he wants in exchange, they do the deed and the the female eats the banana after he leaves. The funny part is that in the commentary they explain that this specific female never goes looking for food...
I think your comment was intended as funny instead of flamebait... can you just imagine the average campus with a gun on every frustrated student ?!? Arf... It would be worse than Iraq.
I know this has been debated to death, but I could never stand the sound of vinyl. There's always some tiny scratch that makes the sound go pop... pop... pop... at every turn, if ever so slight. And that's something I find so irksome that even before CDs existed I couldn't stand vinyl. At the time I bought all my music on tape.
Why not just do it yourself? All you have to do is buy an enclosure and a drive...
Well, that's what I usually do, but I've noticed the very low reliability of enclosures. Three, of different brands, died on me in less that 2 months, usually corrupting part of the filesystem in the process.
Every President in the 20th Century fired all US Attorneys upon taking the oath of office and assuming the role of the Presidency. This is considered standard practice.
I've lived several years in the US but I never understood this. Anyone cares to enlighten me as to why this is considered normal in a country where there is (supposedly) power separation ? Why does the government even have the power to fire attorneys/judges ? Why is it desirable ? And what do the fired attorneys do with their time until the next election rolls around ? Thank you.
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Superzeros suck anyways, don't you americans have any other form of comic book ? You know, like something the reader can identify with, with real stories and some brain instead of shiny muscles ? I mean, for one genius Hard Boiled or Sin City, you get 2000 garbage super/spider/whateverman comics that turn into even more horrendous movies.
They must have counted with a C program: for (i=0; i=10; i++) printf("School #%d", i);
What's the deepest that fossils have been found ? Anyone know ?
Everyone else in this thread failed to properly answer the original question, which is fairly obvious: not everybody can purchase a stack of disks at the same time to create a big RAID and then toss the whole thing 2 years later. Swapping the smallest drive for the newest and biggest every year or so is a dream come true if you can preserve reliability while still optimizing drive space.
And it's funny to see that half the posts go 'hardware RAID' while the other half go 'software RAID'. The latter will lockup if a single drive crashes (low uptime) while the former is impossible to rebuilt without the exact same hardware in stock.
I gave a try to erlang and it is indeed an ingenuous (but didn't Ada do the same things 20 years ago) and simple (too simple, there's no useful library) language. Until the OS and the compiler itself can be written with the language, is there any point in trying to use it ? (except for playing around that is).
In all the RAIDs I've seen all the disks must have the same sizes, which is a big expense when it's just for your personal photo storage needs. I'd like to see some kind of RAID that can take anything, just adding to it regularly to increase either storage size or redundancy or both in a controlled manner.
The reason is that I purchase a new drive every year or so, so I currently have 60G, 120Gb, 200Gb, 250Gb, 400Gb, 500Gb... Currently they are all mounted in different ways, but I'd love to have an enclosure where I can just add a new bigger disk and remove the oldest and smallest and keep going. Bonus point if I can plug it into the RJ45 of my adsl/wifi router or the USB of my laptop.
Does such a thing exist, it's exactly what I want ? Thanks
- some have been dead for 10 years (Pascal).
- Some have never been used for anything (Prolog).
- some have never worked (formal methods)
- and some have never even existed at all (pure functional programming) !!!
Take this as a troll if you have to, but I don't see examples around.Why was that faster ? Whast was different between those devices ? Sorry, but I've never used a PDA, just curious.
I never said they are stupid, I just didn't know the reason. But I'm still surprised that my plastic watch can withstand 4 bars (~30m depth) when a much easier to harden HD cannot... Why should there be metal fatigue on a static enclosure ?!?
Anyway, back on topic, I think biking to work is the best all around solution to the work/exercise. And I'd better go before it starts raining !
I understand the need for air to keep the head flying off the surface of the platter. What I don't understand is the need to have a hole to exchange the air with the outside. Can't they just fill it with neutral gas at the optimum pressure and seal the damn thing ? I say that because I've used hard drive at high altitude and they FAIL often. I mean, if they can do it with salad, why can't they do it to HDs ?
It works both ways. I recently had to call for support in England, which according to my sources is the place the english language originated. I couldn't understand most of what the lady at the end of the line had to say. It was like she kept her mouth wide open while speaking... Don't they have Hollywood or Bollywood movies in England to teach them proper international english ?!? C;-)
I should have thought to ask this before now nobody will see it... I've been searching for such a software before, but none of those tested will handle embedded color profiles. It's fairly simple: if you submit a large image with an embedded color profile different from sRGB, the image gets saved, a medium sized image is created for web display by converting it to sRGB and also a thumbnail the same way. Also if you submit a TIF or (god forbid), a RAW, the app should try to convert it to jpg. I wrote my own in bash+cgi+ImageMagick but it's buggy and not ready for prime time. Anything better ?!?
You are right. I'd love to see my cell provider provide me with a bill that clearly states: you have paid $$$ this month under your current service plan. Now if you had used plan B you would have paid $$$, and $$$ with plan C, etc... listing all their options. Except that they'll never do that, they are all too happy to see you waste your time thinking you got a better deal. What a waste.
I used to live in the US and I found that the ads there were the most annoying ever. In particular the kind of superfast disclaimers that they often read at the end (usually on radio, but sometimes on TV ads too), you know the kind that goes: "thisproductcancausetoenailfunguslossofgenitalhair onlylegalabove12yearsofagenotappliacableinalaska.. ." in less than one second.
How do they read stuff so fast anyway; through some kind of computer speed up system ?
Is there a name for this kind of fast disclaimer (I'm sure there is) ?
Anyway, just one more reason to avoid watching TV or listening to CCC.
So if we live 50% slower (because of energy deprivation), we actually live 50% longer. Whoah, what a great dicovery... It's exactly the opposite of Achilles' choice: either to be a great and famous hero and die young or to live a long happy life without any lasting fame. We all know how it ended.
I remember watching this video about the sexual life of Bonobo apes (cousins of chimpanzee with a social life very similar to humans in many respects, in particular sex). One funny part was a young male coming to a female resting on a branch with a banana. The males makes it very clear what he wants in exchange, they do the deed and the the female eats the banana after he leaves. The funny part is that in the commentary they explain that this specific female never goes looking for food...
I think your comment was intended as funny instead of flamebait... can you just imagine the average campus with a gun on every frustrated student ?!? Arf... It would be worse than Iraq.
I know this has been debated to death, but I could never stand the sound of vinyl. There's always some tiny scratch that makes the sound go pop... pop... pop... at every turn, if ever so slight. And that's something I find so irksome that even before CDs existed I couldn't stand vinyl. At the time I bought all my music on tape.