Maybe if Poland wasn't licking the US ass so much, we'd have better relationships with Russia. Sure Russia is a bully in the class, but Poland is this stupid kid with ego too big to step aside when Russia wants to pass. No wonder we get all the spanking. Additionally, the way Poland butters up the US and is being screwed by them in return makes me really rethink our friends.
The shield in Poland is, citing Bush, to protect the US from middle-east terrorist threat. Whoa, draw a straight line on the map between the US and any of the "rogue countries". Which one goes through Poland? North Korea maybe, but only if they choose to shoot the longer way. No, the shield is against Russia and Russia reacts the natural way.
Standard 3.5" form factor: 26x101x147 mm Standard MicroSD: 11x15x1mm
Place vertically, 8 rows across the width, each row of 128 cards. Leaves room for a 101x147x11 of driver electronics, 12mm on sides for attachment (6mm each side), plus 20mm for the IDE/SATA sockets and bigger electronics elements. Gives 1024 slots. Fill each with a 4GB microSD for a total of 4 terabytes. Speed is not a big issue, because the load can be ballanced between cards (RAID 2?) The price WOULD be an issue, with the cards at $150/pc, but if you went with 1GB cards instead, at $10/pc, say, $1200 ($1024 in cards, the rest for the device) for a solid state 1 terabyte? Not bad...
Sony MemoryStick, MiniSD and MicroSD. That's about all that's in common use, the rest is exotics. Mostly everything supports SD and MMC. Mini and Micro versions come with adapters for "regular size". Only Sony uses its MemoryStick which sucks, because it's most expensive, most incompatibile, biggest and offers no profits. MMC is slowly dying, although due to easy compatibility issues, it's to stay some time yet. CF - *shrug* these seem to be mostly dead. USB - these are pendrives, not memory cards. A different cup of tea.
Personally I'm using a cheap SD adapter as my pendrive:)
Apple came up with iPhone, a tiny handheld device with multi-point touchscreen. Microsoft tried to copy them, but they just couldn't fit the internals into anything handheld-sized so they said "Screw minimization" and came up with a table-sized device.
Pinball tilt scandal: millions of machines across the US rigged to trigger "Tilt" blockade after five minutes of continuous play without losing a ball. The dishonest profit from stopping the game is estimated to $14mln.
If you consider them series production, then yes, they are dumb. But think an old slightly mad scientist in a golden-framed monocle pieced one for you half a hour ago, it's one of a kind, every piece is essential (or so he says) and most of them need to be exposed to allow free inflow of Iota Energy, proper cooling of the Cerptarition Unit and easy replacement od Hydranium and Frenzium capsules. It's not only the best weapon there is. It's the only weapon you're going to get. And a an army of Guzdargarhanians is already at your gates.
But do I get to shoot people who wander into my view as this security guard? Do my actions now matter? Instead of being a nameless, faceless cog in a machine built up in a world of false goals and empty societal constructs, might I be capable of accomplishing something important? Can billions of lives now be affected by my decisions?
No.
Your actions affect a bunch of other nightguards in the building, and possibly some employees if you're getting out of your way (for which you'll get promptly bitchslapped).
In EvE you spend months to change what is in fact several bytes in the database, and could be changed in matter of seconds by one SQL UPDATE command. These bytes don't affect any piece of our world, only other people who struggle to modify their entry in the database that way. This is a game, and all your achievements in it are meaningless. If you think that what you do in the game matters, you lie to yourself. Sure I enjoy any good game, but I stay in touch with the reality: this is a game. It is supposed to be fun. If it's not fun, it fails at its task as a game, I put it away. If the game frustrates me, if it pisses me off, it fails at its task miserably, and I get rid of it ASAP. I'd never spend months of my life playing a game I don't enjoy, in hopes that if I work hard enough, I would start to enjoy it, and I'd never start playing a game with the only premise that my achievements would be meaningful.
The detail is "to escape from a reality, to one that is more interesting, more fun. Say, you spend 8 hours a day working as a worker on a construction yard. And to escape this boring, hard reality, you pick a job of a security guard, watching over a corner of a building for another 8 hours, and additionally paying someone to be able to do so, instead of getting paid for the job.
...or they come with a printed barcode on the sticker, and buy a 4GB SD card for price of a 256M one, or a 60GB IPod for price of a cheap taiwaneese knock-off.
Shouldn't it ask you "shall I install updates that will require reboot?" instead of entering the machine into unstable state without any concern about your current activity, and then presenting you with alternative between aborting your work for reboot or risking wasting your work by crashing or otherwise damaging the system?
I have this nice app at work that takes about 10 seconds to start. 3 seconds to load, 7 seconds displaying splash, doing nothing. After a recent upgrade you can click on splash and it closes and the app starts without any more waiting.
More like "the system is booting" case. It leaves "stand by" and recallibrates. Otherwise it would keep eating up batteries. You don't have to stand on it, just put your leg on top of it for a second.
I think I'll never buy a microwave with buttons. You put the food in. You turn the dial to "3 minutes" and it starts cooking. If you want to finish early, you turn the dial to 0 to make it stop cooking. If you want 2 minutes more, just turn it by 2 minutes more. And it turns slowly down to zero while cooking. No LCD, one "open door" button and one more dial for power, usually set to max. That's some awesomely intuitive interface.
1) There's a power-off key on some Windows keyboards.
Hit it by accident and it shuts off the machine,
no confirmation or anything - just powers down!
A friend had a keyboard with non-standard layout. There was no gap between PrtScr/ScrollLock/Pause and Ins/Home/PgUp - that block was moved one row up. The room of "Delete/End/PgDn" was occupied by the power buttons. "Power" was in place of "Delete". I switched the computer off three times in some 15 minutes before I learned not to use Delete.
yep... and I need to type 001 if I want to change to 1, 099 to change to 99, 100 to change to 100, and... 101 doesn't exist, there's only 100 channels.
MS Outlook autocorrection. It tends to change some perfectly correct syntax (in Polish) to total randomness. ("I want to test" to "I want protest"?) and disabling this "feature" requires: - start Outlook. - "New message" In the New message window type a few letters in the message body - Tools->Autocorrection (before you have typed anything in the message body, it's ghosted out) - uncheck about 40 different checkboxes. - OK - [x], [don't save]
The part that the option is nowhere to be found in the main application options, only in the 'compose message' window, and that you need to start typing to unghost the menu option... pinnacle of intuitiveness.
Who needs good intrusion prevention when you can arrest anyone AFTER they broke in? After all, crime fighting stats don't rise for not catching these who didn't manage to break law, because it was too difficult.
Note no protection has to be perfect. A protection is sufficient if circumventing it costs more than value of the goods it protects. The source of entropy doesn't have to be nearly perfect, especially if the encrypted data has high level of entropy.
The building is 8 floors. There are 2-3 wifi accesspoints on each floor. Metallized glass walls provide good reflectivity for the waves. And instead of 30 seconds like most of what you boil in a microwave, we spend 8 hours a day.
This gets distributed over the whole building instead of a fraction of cubic meter, but it doesn't have to hardboil eggs, and it will last day after day, for years.
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Maybe if Poland wasn't licking the US ass so much, we'd have better relationships with Russia. Sure Russia is a bully in the class, but Poland is this stupid kid with ego too big to step aside when Russia wants to pass. No wonder we get all the spanking. Additionally, the way Poland butters up the US and is being screwed by them in return makes me really rethink our friends.
The shield in Poland is, citing Bush, to protect the US from middle-east terrorist threat. Whoa, draw a straight line on the map between the US and any of the "rogue countries". Which one goes through Poland? North Korea maybe, but only if they choose to shoot the longer way. No, the shield is against Russia and Russia reacts the natural way.
Standard 3.5" form factor: 26x101x147 mm
Standard MicroSD: 11x15x1mm
Place vertically, 8 rows across the width, each row of 128 cards. Leaves room for a 101x147x11 of driver electronics, 12mm on sides for attachment (6mm each side), plus 20mm for the IDE/SATA sockets and bigger electronics elements. Gives 1024 slots. Fill each with a 4GB microSD for a total of 4 terabytes. Speed is not a big issue, because the load can be ballanced between cards (RAID 2?) The price WOULD be an issue, with the cards at $150/pc, but if you went with 1GB cards instead, at $10/pc, say, $1200 ($1024 in cards, the rest for the device) for a solid state 1 terabyte? Not bad...
http://www.google.pl/search?q=4gb+sd+card
8GB SD cards are being made too, though the price is somewhat ridiculous. The upper boundary for now is the size+density.
Sony MemoryStick, MiniSD and MicroSD. That's about all that's in common use, the rest is exotics. Mostly everything supports SD and MMC. Mini and Micro versions come with adapters for "regular size". Only Sony uses its MemoryStick which sucks, because it's most expensive, most incompatibile, biggest and offers no profits. MMC is slowly dying, although due to easy compatibility issues, it's to stay some time yet. CF - *shrug* these seem to be mostly dead. USB - these are pendrives, not memory cards. A different cup of tea.
:)
Personally I'm using a cheap SD adapter as my pendrive
Apple came up with iPhone, a tiny handheld device with multi-point touchscreen. Microsoft tried to copy them, but they just couldn't fit the internals into anything handheld-sized so they said "Screw minimization" and came up with a table-sized device.
Pinball tilt scandal: millions of machines across the US rigged to trigger "Tilt" blockade after five minutes of continuous play without losing a ball. The dishonest profit from stopping the game is estimated to $14mln.
That would definitely make it to the press.
If you consider them series production, then yes, they are dumb. But think an old slightly mad scientist in a golden-framed monocle pieced one for you half a hour ago, it's one of a kind, every piece is essential (or so he says) and most of them need to be exposed to allow free inflow of Iota Energy, proper cooling of the Cerptarition Unit and easy replacement od Hydranium and Frenzium capsules. It's not only the best weapon there is. It's the only weapon you're going to get. And a an army of Guzdargarhanians is already at your gates.
No.
Your actions affect a bunch of other nightguards in the building, and possibly some employees if you're getting out of your way (for which you'll get promptly bitchslapped).
In EvE you spend months to change what is in fact several bytes in the database, and could be changed in matter of seconds by one SQL UPDATE command. These bytes don't affect any piece of our world, only other people who struggle to modify their entry in the database that way. This is a game, and all your achievements in it are meaningless. If you think that what you do in the game matters, you lie to yourself.
Sure I enjoy any good game, but I stay in touch with the reality: this is a game. It is supposed to be fun. If it's not fun, it fails at its task as a game, I put it away. If the game frustrates me, if it pisses me off, it fails at its task miserably, and I get rid of it ASAP. I'd never spend months of my life playing a game I don't enjoy, in hopes that if I work hard enough, I would start to enjoy it, and I'd never start playing a game with the only premise that my achievements would be meaningful.
The detail is "to escape from a reality, to one that is more interesting, more fun.
Say, you spend 8 hours a day working as a worker on a construction yard. And to escape this boring, hard reality, you pick a job of a security guard, watching over a corner of a building for another 8 hours, and additionally paying someone to be able to do so, instead of getting paid for the job.
...or they come with a printed barcode on the sticker, and buy a 4GB SD card for price of a 256M one, or a 60GB IPod for price of a cheap taiwaneese knock-off.
Shouldn't it ask you "shall I install updates that will require reboot?" instead of entering the machine into unstable state without any concern about your current activity, and then presenting you with alternative between aborting your work for reboot or risking wasting your work by crashing or otherwise damaging the system?
I have this nice app at work that takes about 10 seconds to start. 3 seconds to load, 7 seconds displaying splash, doing nothing. After a recent upgrade you can click on splash and it closes and the app starts without any more waiting.
More like "the system is booting" case. It leaves "stand by" and recallibrates. Otherwise it would keep eating up batteries.
You don't have to stand on it, just put your leg on top of it for a second.
I think I'll never buy a microwave with buttons.
You put the food in. You turn the dial to "3 minutes" and it starts cooking.
If you want to finish early, you turn the dial to 0 to make it stop cooking. If you want 2 minutes more, just turn it by 2 minutes more. And it turns slowly down to zero while cooking. No LCD, one "open door" button and one more dial for power, usually set to max. That's some awesomely intuitive interface.
1) There's a power-off key on some Windows keyboards.
Hit it by accident and it shuts off the machine,
no confirmation or anything - just powers down!
A friend had a keyboard with non-standard layout.
There was no gap between PrtScr/ScrollLock/Pause and Ins/Home/PgUp - that block was moved one row up. The room of "Delete/End/PgDn" was occupied by the power buttons. "Power" was in place of "Delete". I switched the computer off three times in some 15 minutes before I learned not to use Delete.
yep... and I need to type 001 if I want to change to 1, 099 to change to 99, 100 to change to 100, and... 101 doesn't exist, there's only 100 channels.
MS Outlook autocorrection. It tends to change some perfectly correct syntax (in Polish) to total randomness. ("I want to test" to "I want protest"?) and disabling this "feature" requires:
- start Outlook.
- "New message"
In the New message window type a few letters in the message body
- Tools->Autocorrection (before you have typed anything in the message body, it's ghosted out)
- uncheck about 40 different checkboxes.
- OK
- [x], [don't save]
The part that the option is nowhere to be found in the main application options, only in the 'compose message' window, and that you need to start typing to unghost the menu option... pinnacle of intuitiveness.
Who needs good intrusion prevention when you can arrest anyone AFTER they broke in?
After all, crime fighting stats don't rise for not catching these who didn't manage to break law, because it was too difficult.
do it day after day and see how long till you develop cancer.
Note no protection has to be perfect. A protection is sufficient if circumventing it costs more than value of the goods it protects.
The source of entropy doesn't have to be nearly perfect, especially if the encrypted data has high level of entropy.
So...f ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff fffffffffffe :)
0x7ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff
is prime...
Interesting
Who's first to write it as decimal here?
Who's to beat the lameness filter while writing it in binary?
See the youtube link in my first post.
13.76 kilocalories of food is energy required to heat up 137.6 ml of water by 100 degrees. Pour 137ml of boiling water on your skin.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipDNSRmkW54
The building is 8 floors. There are 2-3 wifi accesspoints on each floor. Metallized glass walls provide good reflectivity for the waves. And instead of 30 seconds like most of what you boil in a microwave, we spend 8 hours a day.
100mW * 20pcs * 28 800 seconds = 57 600 joules
750W * 60s = 45 000 joules
This gets distributed over the whole building instead of a fraction of cubic meter, but it doesn't have to hardboil eggs, and it will last day after day, for years.
The tube radius of 420 attoparsecs.
OTOH owning the harddrives capable of holding this much data gives you about 730 kilometers of e-penis.