Seriously though, is this the first break from setting SSD capacities to power-of-two sizes (even while the GB units are still metric, not binary), or was this just a typo by the reporter?
Just a thought, but maybe if the studios are losing so much to piracy, perhaps they should consider offering a low-cost, at-no-profit, legitimate download site without DRM, they could stem the loss of profits to the cyberlockers and lessen their own hemorrhaging to more manageable levels.
Or just, I don't know, realize that the cost of enforcing these everlengthened copyrights spreads them too thin and that they should perhaps consider releasing some works to the public domain earlier instead of lifetime-times-two.
As re-reported on 60 Minutes last weekend, dead celebrities have enough ways to continue to make a profit without reaping eternal royalties from their earlier works.
That's no cave. That's the opening to the underground cannon the Martians used to fire their invasion cylinders at Earth during the opposition of the last years of the 19th century.
9102 full 3.5" floppy disks (1.44MB) 18 full CDs (700MB) 1 full DVD (8.54GB)
Every second, with room to spare (I just counted complete transfers).
CD and DVD capacities and transfer rates are measured in metric units, and 1.44 "MB" floppies are a combination of one metric and one binary measure (1.44 "MB" * 1024000 bytes/"MB"). Still, 8 bits per byte, so 100 Gb/s is 12.5 GB/s.
Using the correct units, I get:
1 DVD 17 CDs 8477 floppies
Consider a 1.44 "MB" floppy is defined using two different definitions for a kilobyte: a 1000 B/KB and a 1024 B/KiB factor.
In practice though, it is one floppy, one CD, and one DVD across the board, because it takes more than one second to swap each of them. And that's assuming you've pre-cached the first disk to memory since you're not going to find a drive that can read one 3.5" floppy disk that fast, and I doubt a DVD could even survive the RPMs necessary to read it that fast, let alone a CD.
If they pull out a saxophone hero too, I'll need to pick up something else just so I can stop being associated with this.
I've been intending to pull out my sax and play it to the vocal track for awhile now, but microphone mounts for the bell of a saxophone (where I've asked around here) are more expensive that I'd like (and seem to always include their own real microphone, adding to the price). The game doesn't care if you even sing the right lyrics (I like singing Nine Inch Nails' "Mr. Self Destruct" to the tune of Molly Hatchet's "Flirtin' With Disaster") so it should be possible to sing with a sax for many if not most songs that don't slide the pitch everywhere. I play by ear to the radio a lot anyway.
Or one row of five large 4:3 displays and a second row of six smaller 4:3 displays and one 2:1 display, and you'd have the perfect setup to monitor the world's nuclear arsenal while also cracking 10-character launch codes and playing tic-tac-toe.
you don't own the game, you only have a license to use it, and bots like Glider invalidate the license.
Don't you mean violate the license? Typically violating a license's terms terminates your license, but if the license is invalidated, wouldn't that mean it is no longer binding?
Where's my revision timetable, Lister? It's Saturday night. No one works Saturday night. You don't work any night. You don't work any day. 'Skive hard play hard' that's our motto. Lister where'd you put my revision timetable? It's Saturday night. No one works Saturday night. You don't work any...
Er, Focalin isn't chemically different than Ritalin - they're both C14-H19-NO2. The difference between the two, apparently, is that Focalin contains only one stereoisomer of the compound and Ritalin contains both.
As a (gross) example my bio prof once used, if you had two bags full of severed hands, Ritalin would be the bag of left and right hands but Focalin would only contain left hands. They're all the same compound (hands), but some of them are mirror images of the others (left vs right).
So... Focalin is the drug of one hand clapping to Ritalin's two, and Thalidomide's problem was that it was both ambidextrous and double-jointed.
(Plain Man's Guide to Medical and Chemical Actions and Interactions)
That would explain those recurring dreams of a disfigured Jack Thompson wearing a fedora, striped sweater, and finger knives. He just doesn't want us to be prepared.
My fat one with Other OS still available as an option may be available on the used market, for the right price. In fact, by not applying the 3.21 update, I may have just increased its aftermarket value. How much would the USAF be willing to requisition for a replacement?
Of course, if I want to continue to use the platform, I'll have to forgo even more features: SACD support and backwards compatibility. I'd need to buy two consoles to replace that (I already have another device that plays SACDs).
I'm about fed up with my cable company's attempts to maximize the points of failure and minimize the fault tolerance for people who dare use their own DVRs. First it was a software "upgrade" to their cable boxes that effectively bars their control by TiVos. Now it's Switched Digital Video boxes that can fail to get the signal, will flag all analog programming as copy protected (including SD broadcast channels), and can silently stop working so that you fail to record even non-switched channels.
What are the odds that the use of tracking RFID will expand over time on that campus?
What are the odds that the RFID tag broadcasts the student's social security number in the clear?
When I was in college, student ID numbers were just your social security number with three digits added to the end, unless you were a foreign student. If you lost your student ID, they'd issue a new one and increment one of those three extra digits.
Then there's instances like 24 where CTU was using Macs and the terrorists were using an Alienware gaming laptop to trigger the launch of a missile and nothing else!
I'm expecting a Art Lebedev's Optimus Maximum keyboard to be used just to display "Access Denied" across all the keycaps. Or, even better, a countdown for a self-destruct, 'cause nothing says, "Fuck you!" to the hero better than using a $2400 keyboard and custom software to drive it to tell him just how long he has left to live before killing him.
I liked how they treated this in the movie Scanners.
[Keller backs away from the CONSEC mainframe computer as it shuts down] Programmer: There's no need for that. It's all very quiet. It's just internal switching. Braedon Keller: Really? No one's ever switched off a scanner before. [The computers shut down, tape drives stop, the room goes quiet] Programmer: See, I told you: no fireworks. [Programmer's workstation explodes, and everything else]
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Seriously though, is this the first break from setting SSD capacities to power-of-two sizes (even while the GB units are still metric, not binary), or was this just a typo by the reporter?
Just a thought, but maybe if the studios are losing so much to piracy, perhaps they should consider offering a low-cost, at-no-profit, legitimate download site without DRM, they could stem the loss of profits to the cyberlockers and lessen their own hemorrhaging to more manageable levels.
Or just, I don't know, realize that the cost of enforcing these everlengthened copyrights spreads them too thin and that they should perhaps consider releasing some works to the public domain earlier instead of lifetime-times-two.
As re-reported on 60 Minutes last weekend, dead celebrities have enough ways to continue to make a profit without reaping eternal royalties from their earlier works.
Er, magnetoheliology.
And they thought I was mad when I majored in magnetoheliogy.
and that won't actually effect anything at all, pretty much the same as the y2k bug really wouldn't have effected anything either.
Y2K effected a free OS upgrade for me!
But otherwise, no, it didn't affect much at all.
Anyway, why the new term "poison-ware"? Isn't this what we used to call a "logic bomb"?
That's no cave. That's the opening to the underground cannon the Martians used to fire their invasion cylinders at Earth during the opposition of the last years of the 19th century.
That's:
9102 full 3.5" floppy disks (1.44MB)
18 full CDs (700MB)
1 full DVD (8.54GB)
Every second, with room to spare (I just counted complete transfers).
CD and DVD capacities and transfer rates are measured in metric units, and 1.44 "MB" floppies are a combination of one metric and one binary measure (1.44 "MB" * 1024000 bytes/"MB"). Still, 8 bits per byte, so 100 Gb/s is 12.5 GB/s.
Using the correct units, I get:
1 DVD
17 CDs
8477 floppies
Consider a 1.44 "MB" floppy is defined using two different definitions for a kilobyte: a 1000 B/KB and a 1024 B/KiB factor.
(1.44 "MB"/floppy * 1024000 bytes/"MB" == 1474560 B/floppy; / 1,000,000,000 bytes/GB == .00147456 GB/floppy; 100 Gb/s * 1B/8b == 12.5 GB/s; 12.5 GB/s / .00147456 GB/floppy > 8477 floppies/sec).
In practice though, it is one floppy, one CD, and one DVD across the board, because it takes more than one second to swap each of them. And that's assuming you've pre-cached the first disk to memory since you're not going to find a drive that can read one 3.5" floppy disk that fast, and I doubt a DVD could even survive the RPMs necessary to read it that fast, let alone a CD.
If they pull out a saxophone hero too, I'll need to pick up something else just so I can stop being associated with this.
I've been intending to pull out my sax and play it to the vocal track for awhile now, but microphone mounts for the bell of a saxophone (where I've asked around here) are more expensive that I'd like (and seem to always include their own real microphone, adding to the price). The game doesn't care if you even sing the right lyrics (I like singing Nine Inch Nails' "Mr. Self Destruct" to the tune of Molly Hatchet's "Flirtin' With Disaster") so it should be possible to sing with a sax for many if not most songs that don't slide the pitch everywhere. I play by ear to the radio a lot anyway.
Or one row of five large 4:3 displays and a second row of six smaller 4:3 displays and one 2:1 display, and you'd have the perfect setup to monitor the world's nuclear arsenal while also cracking 10-character launch codes and playing tic-tac-toe.
you don't own the game, you only have a license to use it, and bots like Glider invalidate the license.
Don't you mean violate the license? Typically violating a license's terms terminates your license, but if the license is invalidated, wouldn't that mean it is no longer binding?
Where's my revision timetable, Lister? It's Saturday night. No one works Saturday night. You don't work any night. You don't work any day. 'Skive hard play hard' that's our motto. Lister where'd you put my revision timetable? It's Saturday night. No one works Saturday night. You don't work any...
Er, Focalin isn't chemically different than Ritalin - they're both C14-H19-NO2. The difference between the two, apparently, is that Focalin contains only one stereoisomer of the compound and Ritalin contains both.
As a (gross) example my bio prof once used, if you had two bags full of severed hands, Ritalin would be the bag of left and right hands but Focalin would only contain left hands. They're all the same compound (hands), but some of them are mirror images of the others (left vs right).
So... Focalin is the drug of one hand clapping to Ritalin's two, and Thalidomide's problem was that it was both ambidextrous and double-jointed.
(Plain Man's Guide to Medical and Chemical Actions and Interactions)
That would explain those recurring dreams of a disfigured Jack Thompson wearing a fedora, striped sweater, and finger knives. He just doesn't want us to be prepared.
80 meters is a pretty substantial hair.
You can't expect much grasp of metric units from Americans.
80 MILES?!
My fat one with Other OS still available as an option may be available on the used market, for the right price. In fact, by not applying the 3.21 update, I may have just increased its aftermarket value. How much would the USAF be willing to requisition for a replacement?
Of course, if I want to continue to use the platform, I'll have to forgo even more features: SACD support and backwards compatibility. I'd need to buy two consoles to replace that (I already have another device that plays SACDs).
What if you're a half-dead cat in a box?
Tretonin?
Theora: What if some really dangerous people got control of it?
Murray: Who do you think controls it now?
You're not allowed to install any device that interferes with the deployment of the air bag.
So that's what happened to all those infomercials for The Club!
you'll have t prove you're more intelligent than a pet rock to buy one
Well, there is now a USB Pet Rock, so that threshold is still very low.
I'm about fed up with my cable company's attempts to maximize the points of failure and minimize the fault tolerance for people who dare use their own DVRs. First it was a software "upgrade" to their cable boxes that effectively bars their control by TiVos. Now it's Switched Digital Video boxes that can fail to get the signal, will flag all analog programming as copy protected (including SD broadcast channels), and can silently stop working so that you fail to record even non-switched channels.
by Anonymous Coward writes: on 03:24 AM -- Wednesday May 05 2010
Oh, if only you'd posted 10 or 11 minutes later.
What are the odds that the use of tracking RFID will expand over time on that campus?
What are the odds that the RFID tag broadcasts the student's social security number in the clear?
When I was in college, student ID numbers were just your social security number with three digits added to the end, unless you were a foreign student. If you lost your student ID, they'd issue a new one and increment one of those three extra digits.
Then there's instances like 24 where CTU was using Macs and the terrorists were using an Alienware gaming laptop to trigger the launch of a missile and nothing else!
I'm expecting a Art Lebedev's Optimus Maximum keyboard to be used just to display "Access Denied" across all the keycaps. Or, even better, a countdown for a self-destruct, 'cause nothing says, "Fuck you!" to the hero better than using a $2400 keyboard and custom software to drive it to tell him just how long he has left to live before killing him.
I liked how they treated this in the movie Scanners.
[Keller backs away from the CONSEC mainframe computer as it shuts down]
Programmer: There's no need for that. It's all very quiet. It's just internal switching.
Braedon Keller: Really? No one's ever switched off a scanner before.
[The computers shut down, tape drives stop, the room goes quiet]
Programmer: See, I told you: no fireworks.
[Programmer's workstation explodes, and everything else]
This way, MPEG-LA caches in
Gone are the days when someone who knows the word "cache" can be trusted not to use it incorrectly.