For that matter, we could probably even get away with less letters. Some of them are redundant when you get down to it.
A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling, by Mark Twain:
For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which "c" would be retained would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2 might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y" replasing it with "i" and Iear 4 might fiks the "g/j" anomali wonse and for all.
Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants. Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez "c", "y" and "x" -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez -- tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivli.
Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.
The patent was issued by a corrupt, overreaching, immoral, unethical, illegitimate government. If you think your rights and denial of rights, as a sovereign human being, stem from a corrupt, overreaching, immoral, unethical, and illegitimate government, then yes, you are free to subject yourself to the whims of the owner of this vile patent. Or if you are too weak minded or lacking the resources to fight it.
Sigh, no to both posters, OS X is neither Mach nor BSD. It is built on XNU, a hybrid kernel built on Mach, with BSD bits to provide the Unix process model, POSIX API, the network stack, file systems, and some other goodies. The BSD bits were adapted from FreeBSD with significant modifications. There is also something called I/O Kit to provide drivers, and this part is unique to OS X.
XNU has been greatly developed from the original created by NeXTSTEP. The Mach part has been changed from Mach 2.5 to Mach 3.0, the BSD part has been changed from 4.3BSD to FreeBSD as a base, and Driver Kit has become I/O Kit.
Did you even read the post you just replied to? Sheesh. He just explained the issue of NAND flash limited data retention lifetime - completely independent of writing.
Oh, but users will not complain this way? Broken by design. "My Mac won't work with website XYZ but everybody else's computer works fine. Fix it NOW." The user doesn't care who to "blame." He just bought a computer. Computers are supposed to browse the internet. He can't browse the internet.
And yes, from this point of view, linux is broken by design, too. You want to know why it's not popular on the desktop YET?
What is the rationale for removing schedulers from the codebase? Choice is good. The disk space impact of extra scheduler choices is entirely negligible, and the RAM impact is hardly severe for most cases. I can see tuning a kernel to remove them in highly restricted scenarios like embedded, but why take them out of the codebase?
Classically, yes. With designs like the one under discussion, not any more.
This is a direct injection design. Direct injection does not mix fuel with air prior to compression in the cylinder. It injects the fuel under great pressure directly into the combustion chamber in a pulse at the precise time when it is intended to combust. Since there is no fuel in the chamber prior to proper ignition time, there cannot be any preignition. Detonation is likewise controlled by the design of the injection system. Hence the two reasons necessitating high octane are removed. It's the same idea as a diesel, with the main difference being that you still have a spark plug, rather than relying on heat of compression plus a glow plug to ignite the injected fuel.
Not only does NAND flash have a limited number of erase/write cycles; it has a limited data retention lifetime - i.e., even if all you do is write it once on day 0 and then do nothing but read it, your data will start to disappear in due course. There is also a problem where repeated reading of particular pages causes other pages in the same block to be degraded and eventually lose their data. A good and rather exhaustive summary of NAND flash issues, including some not widely realized, is here.
However, low write performance is not a disadvantage of flash. Any decent flash SSD will blow every hard drive out of the water on write performance in the real world. Yes, there have been SSDs with incredibly bad controllers which quickly degraded to piss poor write performance in use, but no one should be using that crap at this point.
Not exactly. Asbestos particles, when inhaled chronically, lead to mesothelioma. Mesothelioma is not lung cancer; it is a cancer of the pleura which cover the lungs. Asbestos particles, because of their form and other characteristics are especially capable of piercing the alveoli and reaching the pleura. Asbestos particles are only 3,000-20,000 nm long, and only 10 nm in diameter (a human hair is 17,000-180,000 nm in diameter; a red blood cell is 8,000 nm in diameter). Only rarely does exposure to any other substance lead to mesothelioma. Smoking, and exposure to other types of particulates, preponderantly leads to forms of lung cancer rather than mesothelioma.
You have been undone by your fifth reference, which is pure bullshit. A more authoritative source shows that world reserves of helium as compiled in January 2003 were 7.8 billion m^3, not 2 billion, and the reserve base is 25 billion. So it will be a lot more than 14,598.5 airships. Your point is, in any case, well taken.
Correlation is not causation. There is nothing in the article I read to demonstrate causality: that the combination of the specific virus and fungus caused the death of the bees. Organisms which are morbid or dying are likely to be the target of infections which they otherwise could fight off. The syndrome should be pursued and understood. Once the progression is understood adequately, only then can corrective measures be developed and applied to assured effect.
"Look", exactly. Look at the population growth curve, for example Figure 7, here Exponential would require a constantly rising curve (check) at a constantly increased RATE (not check). Here is an explanation and a visualization of true exponential growth, as opposed to some other forms of growth. Is the growth too large and too out of control? Arguably, but exponential it's not.
It is garbage. I have never watched a 3D film and will never watch one. I won't wear those stupid glasses. Get off my lawn. Damn kids. If I have a stroke tomorrow, the one thing I won't miss from life is 3D CRAP.
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Because it's pointless and Konqueror is far better in every way?
For that matter, we could probably even get away with less letters. Some of them are redundant when you get down to it.
A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling, by Mark Twain:
For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which "c" would be retained would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2 might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y" replasing it with "i" and Iear 4 might fiks the "g/j" anomali wonse and for all.
Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants. Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez "c", "y" and "x" -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez -- tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivli.
Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.
The patent was issued by a corrupt, overreaching, immoral, unethical, illegitimate government. If you think your rights and denial of rights, as a sovereign human being, stem from a corrupt, overreaching, immoral, unethical, and illegitimate government, then yes, you are free to subject yourself to the whims of the owner of this vile patent. Or if you are too weak minded or lacking the resources to fight it.
Sigh, no to both posters, OS X is neither Mach nor BSD. It is built on XNU, a hybrid kernel built on Mach, with BSD bits to provide the Unix process model, POSIX API, the network stack, file systems, and some other goodies. The BSD bits were adapted from FreeBSD with significant modifications. There is also something called I/O Kit to provide drivers, and this part is unique to OS X.
XNU has been greatly developed from the original created by NeXTSTEP. The Mach part has been changed from Mach 2.5 to Mach 3.0, the BSD part has been changed from 4.3BSD to FreeBSD as a base, and Driver Kit has become I/O Kit.
Did you even read the post you just replied to? Sheesh. He just explained the issue of NAND flash limited data retention lifetime - completely independent of writing.
A one percentile example anecdote does not prove the rule, but it _is_ pleasant to read about - precisely because it is so uncommon.
Oh, but users will not complain this way? Broken by design. "My Mac won't work with website XYZ but everybody else's computer works fine. Fix it NOW." The user doesn't care who to "blame." He just bought a computer. Computers are supposed to browse the internet. He can't browse the internet.
And yes, from this point of view, linux is broken by design, too. You want to know why it's not popular on the desktop YET?
What is the rationale for removing schedulers from the codebase? Choice is good. The disk space impact of extra scheduler choices is entirely negligible, and the RAM impact is hardly severe for most cases. I can see tuning a kernel to remove them in highly restricted scenarios like embedded, but why take them out of the codebase?
Yep, it sure sucks to run out of RAM.
Classically, yes. With designs like the one under discussion, not any more.
This is a direct injection design. Direct injection does not mix fuel with air prior to compression in the cylinder. It injects the fuel under great pressure directly into the combustion chamber in a pulse at the precise time when it is intended to combust. Since there is no fuel in the chamber prior to proper ignition time, there cannot be any preignition. Detonation is likewise controlled by the design of the injection system. Hence the two reasons necessitating high octane are removed. It's the same idea as a diesel, with the main difference being that you still have a spark plug, rather than relying on heat of compression plus a glow plug to ignite the injected fuel.
Not only does NAND flash have a limited number of erase/write cycles; it has a limited data retention lifetime - i.e., even if all you do is write it once on day 0 and then do nothing but read it, your data will start to disappear in due course. There is also a problem where repeated reading of particular pages causes other pages in the same block to be degraded and eventually lose their data. A good and rather exhaustive summary of NAND flash issues, including some not widely realized, is here.
However, low write performance is not a disadvantage of flash. Any decent flash SSD will blow every hard drive out of the water on write performance in the real world. Yes, there have been SSDs with incredibly bad controllers which quickly degraded to piss poor write performance in use, but no one should be using that crap at this point.
Are consumer hard drives headed into history? No.
Next question...
Sign zzzze paperzzzz or elttttttzzzz.
Absolutely. We should all be clear that the tissue insult is physical, not chemical.
Not exactly. Asbestos particles, when inhaled chronically, lead to mesothelioma. Mesothelioma is not lung cancer; it is a cancer of the pleura which cover the lungs. Asbestos particles, because of their form and other characteristics are especially capable of piercing the alveoli and reaching the pleura. Asbestos particles are only 3,000-20,000 nm long, and only 10 nm in diameter (a human hair is 17,000-180,000 nm in diameter; a red blood cell is 8,000 nm in diameter). Only rarely does exposure to any other substance lead to mesothelioma. Smoking, and exposure to other types of particulates, preponderantly leads to forms of lung cancer rather than mesothelioma.
Excuse me, what? Can you please phrase that in syntactically meaningful english?
You have been undone by your fifth reference, which is pure bullshit. A more authoritative source shows that world reserves of helium as compiled in January 2003 were 7.8 billion m^3, not 2 billion, and the reserve base is 25 billion. So it will be a lot more than 14,598.5 airships. Your point is, in any case, well taken.
Correlation is not causation. There is nothing in the article I read to demonstrate causality: that the combination of the specific virus and fungus caused the death of the bees. Organisms which are morbid or dying are likely to be the target of infections which they otherwise could fight off. The syndrome should be pursued and understood. Once the progression is understood adequately, only then can corrective measures be developed and applied to assured effect.
OK, you don't get any MORE than you pay for.
"Look", exactly. Look at the population growth curve, for example Figure 7, here Exponential would require a constantly rising curve (check) at a constantly increased RATE (not check). Here is an explanation and a visualization of true exponential growth, as opposed to some other forms of growth. Is the growth too large and too out of control? Arguably, but exponential it's not.
If "we" actually were growing exponentially, running out of IPV4 addresses would be near the least of our problems.
Ban everything I don't like.
OK, you will have a long, LONG snooze. Hope you have put on a good layer of fat.
It is garbage. I have never watched a 3D film and will never watch one. I won't wear those stupid glasses. Get off my lawn. Damn kids. If I have a stroke tomorrow, the one thing I won't miss from life is 3D CRAP.
150% markup or 50% markup?