Wrong. Only ratios of quantities of the same type are unit-less. For example, the ratio of distance covered and time needed, also known as speed, very clearly has an unit.
Of course in this case we have units of the same type (namely mass), so the ratio is, indeed, just a number.
Their post sets out very clearly that they're migrating their applications and workstations to IE8.
I wonder if you have read it. Here's the complete paragraph from which you quoted one (partial) sentence (emphasis by me; the first emphasized sentence is the one you quoted):
It is not straightforward for HMG departments to upgrade IE versions on their systems. Upgrading these systems to IE8 can be a very large operation, taking weeks to test and roll out to all users. To test all the web applications currently used by HMG departments can take months at significant potential cost to the taxpayer. It is therefore more cost effective in many cases to continue to use IE6 and rely on other measures, such as firewalls and malware scanning software, to further protect public sector internet users.
So it's quite clear that they are not upgrading IE versions.
Actually, I think there's something much more important: Curiosity. If you only learn it in the hope that it helps you making money, it will soon bore you, you'll have a hard time keeping at it, and you will likely get mediocre at best. Therefore the main point is to get yourself really interested in it. As soon as you really, genuinely want to know, not for the prospect of potentially making money, but for curiosity of the thing itself, any halfway decent source should be enough to learn, and if in addition you have enough time for it, you'll very likely get good in it.
what's your backup plan when the world ends and you can't order pizza online?
When the world ends, there will not be any more any ingredients for Pizza, nor any bricks to build an oven or wood to fire it. Which doesn't matter, because there will also not be any belly to be filled either.
Hope is for the time when you don't know whether it's true. As soon as you know whether it's true, there's no place for hope. Either it's found true, then you don't need to hope for it. Or it's found false, then it would be silly to hope for it. So the right time to hope for it is now.
That's 15.7 times each. Being shot with that thing must feel awesome. You'd think the military would have caught on once the volunteers started queueing up for the fifth or sixth time.
Well, the military obviously used it wrong. They tried to use it to get rid of people being in their way. Instead more and more people came. So they declared it a failure.
The correct solution would have been to give each Taliban one shot, and tell them they only get more of it if they stop fighting. In a few days, no Taliban would fight any more.
So what is the problem with just having two drives, one SSD for programs, and one HDD for data? You probably have separate partitions for both anyway, so why not put those partitions on different drives? This would need zero additional logic, and would provide you most of the advantage of both technologies.
(Though, in a laptop, where disk space seems to be ten years behind, and 5400 rpm is the norm,
SSD is in a much better position).
Not only that, but in Laptops you care much more about power consumption. Moreover, a laptop is much more likely to get high accelerations (like falling to the floor), and you'd prefer if your disk has more of a chance to survive that (of course it's something to avoid anyway, but shit happens, and if it happens you want the damage to be as little as possible).
No, the HMA belongs to the extended memory (XMS). Expanded memory (EMS) is mapped into the low memory area (IIRC in the physical address space between 640k and 1M which is reserved for ROM and hardware devices; the graphics card memory also is mapped in that area). However, on a 386 or later you can emulate expanded memory with extended memory (that's what EMM386.SYS is for). Oh, and when you want to use the HMA, don't forget to disable A20.
Isn't is fascinating how much knowledge one collects which gets totally useless soon after?
AFAIU it's not the motor cyclist who's facing 16 years. Or are you going to argue that videotaping is an act of wildly and dangerously breaking traffic law?
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Of course they should instead have chosen a system where you need 7 of 9 to restore!
Wrong. Only ratios of quantities of the same type are unit-less. For example, the ratio of distance covered and time needed, also known as speed, very clearly has an unit.
Of course in this case we have units of the same type (namely mass), so the ratio is, indeed, just a number.
I wonder if you have read it. Here's the complete paragraph from which you quoted one (partial) sentence (emphasis by me; the first emphasized sentence is the one you quoted):
It is not straightforward for HMG departments to upgrade IE versions on their systems. Upgrading these systems to IE8 can be a very large operation, taking weeks to test and roll out to all users. To test all the web applications currently used by HMG departments can take months at significant potential cost to the taxpayer. It is therefore more cost effective in many cases to continue to use IE6 and rely on other measures, such as firewalls and malware scanning software, to further protect public sector internet users.
So it's quite clear that they are not upgrading IE versions.
The ratio is 0.0625. Therefore it's 62.5 grams per kilogram.
Actually, I think there's something much more important: Curiosity. If you only learn it in the hope that it helps you making money, it will soon bore you, you'll have a hard time keeping at it, and you will likely get mediocre at best. Therefore the main point is to get yourself really interested in it. As soon as you really, genuinely want to know, not for the prospect of potentially making money, but for curiosity of the thing itself, any halfway decent source should be enough to learn, and if in addition you have enough time for it, you'll very likely get good in it.
We only have the executable. No source anywhere to see, let alone documentation.
I don't own the air around me. Does that mean I'm not allowed to breath?
Only $1800? That can't be a good cable! I guess it doesn't even have color-specific gold plating!
Because people could actually understand it, and then buy just what they need.
When the world ends, there will not be any more any ingredients for Pizza, nor any bricks to build an oven or wood to fire it. Which doesn't matter, because there will also not be any belly to be filled either.
Too many problems with the iPhones - personal towers might be a good idea
Maybe that's why AT&T doesn't want to block the presentation. They hope to learn something about building cell towers.
I didn't know that I've got $25000 dollars worth of storage at home :-)
You can get it directly at their headquarters, in the year 2735.
Yeah, to seize all that oil would definitely help. The problem is how to do it. :-)
What about just giving those who don't deserve passing an F, and using the scale of A-D for a more fine-grained scoring of those who deserve to pass?
Hope is for the time when you don't know whether it's true. As soon as you know whether it's true, there's no place for hope. Either it's found true, then you don't need to hope for it. Or it's found false, then it would be silly to hope for it. So the right time to hope for it is now.
FAPP (For all practical purpose)
No offense, but I sincerely hope that acronym does not catch on =)
Too late.
Are you sure that demolishing your alibis is as hard as sorting 1TB of numbers?
At 1TB the attraction of the 1-bits gets so large that if you are not careful, your data collapses into a black hole.
That's 15.7 times each. Being shot with that thing must feel awesome. You'd think the military would have caught on once the volunteers started queueing up for the fifth or sixth time.
Well, the military obviously used it wrong. They tried to use it to get rid of people being in their way. Instead more and more people came. So they declared it a failure.
The correct solution would have been to give each Taliban one shot, and tell them they only get more of it if they stop fighting. In a few days, no Taliban would fight any more.
Well, if I was sold the screwdriver as a tool to put nails in, then yes, I'd consider it a failure.
So what is the problem with just having two drives, one SSD for programs, and one HDD for data? You probably have separate partitions for both anyway, so why not put those partitions on different drives? This would need zero additional logic, and would provide you most of the advantage of both technologies.
Not only that, but in Laptops you care much more about power consumption. Moreover, a laptop is much more likely to get high accelerations (like falling to the floor), and you'd prefer if your disk has more of a chance to survive that (of course it's something to avoid anyway, but shit happens, and if it happens you want the damage to be as little as possible).
No, the HMA belongs to the extended memory (XMS). Expanded memory (EMS) is mapped into the low memory area (IIRC in the physical address space between 640k and 1M which is reserved for ROM and hardware devices; the graphics card memory also is mapped in that area). However, on a 386 or later you can emulate expanded memory with extended memory (that's what EMM386.SYS is for). Oh, and when you want to use the HMA, don't forget to disable A20.
Isn't is fascinating how much knowledge one collects which gets totally useless soon after?
AFAIU it's not the motor cyclist who's facing 16 years. Or are you going to argue that videotaping is an act of wildly and dangerously breaking traffic law?