Could he not used liquid nitrogen to cool the hardware down, like a computer does a cpu?
Only overclockers do that. Liquid cooling systems don't use liquid nitrogen.
And you'd only use it during operation, and only if you can maintain the temperature. You try cooling a hot tank rapidly with liquid nitrogen, you're likely to crack the tank. Remember Alien^3?
Try dumping liquid nitrogen in your car's radiator after it has overheated in the middle of the desert (but not without prearranging alternate transport).
Stranger: Well, it isn't all of us that are made for wild beasts, and that's what it's got to be. That's why I watched you. Watched you. All these little office workers that used to live in these houses -- they'd be no good. They haven't any stuff to 'em. They just used to run off to work. I've seen hundreds of 'em, running wild to catch their commuters' train in the morning for fear that they'd get canned if they didn't; running back at night afraid that they won't be in time for dinner. Lives insured and a little invested in case of accidents. Yeah, and on Sundays, worried about the hereafter. The Martians will be a godsend for those guys. Nice roomy cages, good food, careful breeding, no worries. Yeah, after a week or so chasing about the fields on empty stomachs they'll come and be glad to be caught. Pierson: You've thought it all out, haven't you? Stranger: Sure, you bet I have! And that isn't all. These Martians will make pets of some of them, train 'em to do tricks. Who knows? Get sentimental over the pet boy who grew up and had to be killed. Yeah. And some, maybe, they'll train to hunt us. Pierson: No, that's impossible. No human being.... Stranger: Yes they will. There's men who'll do it gladly. If one of them ever comes after me, why....
IIRC, you have it in reverse: the entertainment industry wants a strong copyright czar.
Strong when in their interests, not against them.
"You should never hand someone a gun unless you're sure where they'll point it. Your mistake." -- Cmdr. Jeffrey Sinclair; Babylon 5: "By Any Means Necessary"
Yes, really dumb. There is no spool. The second message should have started with "Message".
Even Mission: Impossible didn't always say "tape". Sometimes it was, "This record...", "This film...", "This disc..." (1980's version), and sometimes even, "Please dispose of this recording in the usual manner." One mission was delivered on the back of a card that could be pulverized in one hand.
At least though the self-destruction is right. I still haven't seen one sign of the message in the results.
And it seems spammers monitor google trends and modify their own pages to come up in these popular results.
...the subscriber using the IP address [IP address] infringing the copyright rights of one or more ESA members...
Either an ESA member is claiming copyright on the IP address itself... or there's an "is" missing. Is it the ESA's omission or dropped in the edit? Submitter?
"You son of a bitch. You moved the cemetery, but you left the bodies, didn't you? You son of a bitch, you left the bodies and you only moved the solar panels. You only moved the solar panels! Why?! Why?!"
Yeah, doesn't quite have the same ring to it, does it?
You don't need to reserve space for wear-leveling. The bigger you are, the more space you have to spread the wear, the longer you last. If you partition off some space to not be worn, you reduce the lifespan of the space that is being worn. And, by the time you'd need it, more space is going to fail than what you held in reserve anyway, and probably faster than you can recover it.
Why isn't wasting RAM installed in your computer necessary to make it addressable?
The missing space could be caused by several different things depending on your take:
. NSA backdoor
I don't think you have to worry about that. With the wear-leveling alone, you already cannot be sure whether or not something was truly erased: your rewrites may not have gone to the same parts of memory where the file was stored in the first place.
If the file system's overhead consumed 17.58 GiB of my 256 GiB drive, I'd look to use a different file system. There's no cause for that much to be wasted, regardless of what your block size is.
Yeah, it'll be 1 to 3 organs, depending on demand. Demand for soft organs is red-hot right now, so it's pretty well sure to be a triple-donation. Probably the usual combo: eyeball, kidney, testicle. If they want bone, they'll take an arm or a leg, but we haven't done a limb-cut in days.
All these flash drives and solid state drives keep advertising capacities in powers of two: 64 GB, 128 GB, 256 GB. So why do they still say a 256 GB SSD is 256 million bytes?
WotW actually changed all that, what with the mass panic, dozens of suicides, and general craziness that followed it.
There were no suicides. There was one reported contemplated suicide (a husband finding his wife listening to show with a handful of sleeping pills, saying, "I'd rather go out this way than that!"), but no one actually committed suicide in response to the 1938 October 30th Orson Welles broadcast.
In later adaptations for other countries (notably Peru), it had prompted outrage amongst listeners after the fact, prompting them to burn down a radio station in a riot, killing the people inside.
A MAME cabinet set up to play only one game. SPAME cabinets are slowly replacing true original classic arcade games as the original systems fall into disrepair. Of increasing concern of buyers of classic intact games on on-line auction sites.
Brain: The average American's knowledge of geography is pitiful. They'll think we're part of the former Soviet Union or Canada.
Mrs. Applebee: Brainania? Oh, yes. I remember. You used to be a suburb of Prague.
Man: General Oden, where is Brainania? Gen. Oden: It's up here... on the big board. John Wayne Commando: Ah, where exactly, sir? Gen. Oden: We're ready to go in a moment's notice... [phone rings] Gen. Oden: Yes, Mr. Secretary? Mr. Secretary: For the last time General, where is Brainania? Gen. Oden:Mr. Secretary: We're way down in the polls. We need a fast, easy war. Gen. Oden: Sir, Brainania isn't on the map. Our satellites can't find it, and it's not listed in any back issues of National Geographic. Mr. Secretary: Sadly, we can't go to war with a country we can't find! [Mr. Secretary hangs up] Gen. Oden: Wuss.
don't forget used food, used condoms, and used needles!
You're joking, but you hit on it that they want games as produce or, more generally, single-use consumable games, but with the additional restriction that you can never use their product as an ingredient of another dish. A classic example of a consumable game was Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord where killing most monsters actually deleted them from the original disk.
Eventually they'll get there with on-line sales (nothing physical to resell), but in the meantime they'll make it so that your game disk only allows one installation and self-destructs immediately afterward leaving only the copy on your console's drive. They can effectively do that now by requiring a single-use installation code.
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Could he not used liquid nitrogen to cool the hardware down, like a computer does a cpu?
Only overclockers do that. Liquid cooling systems don't use liquid nitrogen.
And you'd only use it during operation, and only if you can maintain the temperature. You try cooling a hot tank rapidly with liquid nitrogen, you're likely to crack the tank. Remember Alien^3?
Try dumping liquid nitrogen in your car's radiator after it has overheated in the middle of the desert (but not without prearranging alternate transport).
Stranger: Well, it isn't all of us that are made for wild beasts, and that's what it's got to be. That's why I watched you. Watched you. All these little office workers that used to live in these houses -- they'd be no good. They haven't any stuff to 'em. They just used to run off to work. I've seen hundreds of 'em, running wild to catch their commuters' train in the morning for fear that they'd get canned if they didn't; running back at night afraid that they won't be in time for dinner. Lives insured and a little invested in case of accidents. Yeah, and on Sundays, worried about the hereafter. The Martians will be a godsend for those guys. Nice roomy cages, good food, careful breeding, no worries. Yeah, after a week or so chasing about the fields on empty stomachs they'll come and be glad to be caught.
Pierson: You've thought it all out, haven't you?
Stranger: Sure, you bet I have! And that isn't all. These Martians will make pets of some of them, train 'em to do tricks. Who knows? Get sentimental over the pet boy who grew up and had to be killed. Yeah. And some, maybe, they'll train to hunt us.
Pierson: No, that's impossible. No human being....
Stranger: Yes they will. There's men who'll do it gladly. If one of them ever comes after me, why....
There won't be an end of forgetting as long as people have the need to safely lie with, "I do not recall," or the like when testifying to Congress.
IIRC, you have it in reverse: the entertainment industry wants a strong copyright czar.
Strong when in their interests, not against them.
"You should never hand someone a gun unless you're sure where they'll point it. Your mistake." -- Cmdr. Jeffrey Sinclair; Babylon 5: "By Any Means Necessary"
Yes, really dumb. There is no spool. The second message should have started with "Message".
Even Mission: Impossible didn't always say "tape". Sometimes it was, "This record...", "This film...", "This disc..." (1980's version), and sometimes even, "Please dispose of this recording in the usual manner." One mission was delivered on the back of a card that could be pulverized in one hand.
At least though the self-destruction is right. I still haven't seen one sign of the message in the results.
And it seems spammers monitor google trends and modify their own pages to come up in these popular results.
http://www.theesa.com/
For awhile there, I thought, "Oh, great. Another person whose parents couldn't spell Theresa."
Either an ESA member is claiming copyright on the IP address itself... or there's an "is" missing. Is it the ESA's omission or dropped in the edit? Submitter?
It's effectively an Ask Slashdot. No link required.
"You son of a bitch. You moved the cemetery, but you left the bodies, didn't you? You son of a bitch, you left the bodies and you only moved the solar panels. You only moved the solar panels! Why?! Why?!"
Yeah, doesn't quite have the same ring to it, does it?
Wait for the next features.
Solar powered LCD headstones.
"Yes... it's wonderful, isn't it?"
You don't need to reserve space for wear-leveling. The bigger you are, the more space you have to spread the wear, the longer you last. If you partition off some space to not be worn, you reduce the lifespan of the space that is being worn. And, by the time you'd need it, more space is going to fail than what you held in reserve anyway, and probably faster than you can recover it.
Why isn't wasting RAM installed in your computer necessary to make it addressable?
The missing space could be caused by several different things depending on your take:
. NSA backdoor
I don't think you have to worry about that. With the wear-leveling alone, you already cannot be sure whether or not something was truly erased: your rewrites may not have gone to the same parts of memory where the file was stored in the first place.
If the file system's overhead consumed 17.58 GiB of my 256 GiB drive, I'd look to use a different file system. There's no cause for that much to be wasted, regardless of what your block size is.
I would say I must be feeling British today, except that wouldn't have excused the mistake either.
You fail at acronyms.
"Sizzd"?
Yeah, it'll be 1 to 3 organs, depending on demand. Demand for soft organs is red-hot right now, so it's pretty well sure to be a triple-donation. Probably the usual combo: eyeball, kidney, testicle. If they want bone, they'll take an arm or a leg, but we haven't done a limb-cut in days.
All these flash drives and solid state drives keep advertising capacities in powers of two: 64 GB, 128 GB, 256 GB. So why do they still say a 256 GB SSD is 256 million bytes?
W O W .
I never thought a Single Sided Disc (SSD)
would ever be able to hold so much data . .
Just try installing one flipped. Cutting the notch will surely be a bitch.
On the box of a clockwork toy made in Hong Kong: * Guaranteed to work throughout its useful life.
Meteor my ass. More cover-up about the fucking space bugs now running our world. Christ, as if GWB wassn't proof enough.
FYI, Men In Black was not a documentary.
"For Duty and Humanity!"
WotW actually changed all that, what with the mass panic, dozens of suicides, and general craziness that followed it.
There were no suicides. There was one reported contemplated suicide (a husband finding his wife listening to show with a handful of sleeping pills, saying, "I'd rather go out this way than that!"), but no one actually committed suicide in response to the 1938 October 30th Orson Welles broadcast.
In later adaptations for other countries (notably Peru), it had prompted outrage amongst listeners after the fact, prompting them to burn down a radio station in a riot, killing the people inside.
A MAME cabinet set up to play only one game. SPAME cabinets are slowly replacing true original classic arcade games as the original systems fall into disrepair. Of increasing concern of buyers of classic intact games on on-line auction sites.
Brain: The average American's knowledge of geography is pitiful. They'll think we're part of the former Soviet Union or Canada.
Mrs. Applebee: Brainania? Oh, yes. I remember. You used to be a suburb of Prague.
Man: General Oden, where is Brainania?
Gen. Oden: It's up here... on the big board.
John Wayne Commando: Ah, where exactly, sir?
Gen. Oden: We're ready to go in a moment's notice...
[phone rings]
Gen. Oden: Yes, Mr. Secretary?
Mr. Secretary: For the last time General, where is Brainania?
Gen. Oden:Mr. Secretary: We're way down in the polls. We need a fast, easy war.
Gen. Oden: Sir, Brainania isn't on the map. Our satellites can't find it, and it's not listed in any back issues of National Geographic.
Mr. Secretary: Sadly, we can't go to war with a country we can't find!
[Mr. Secretary hangs up]
Gen. Oden: Wuss.
don't forget used food, used condoms, and used needles!
You're joking, but you hit on it that they want games as produce or, more generally, single-use consumable games, but with the additional restriction that you can never use their product as an ingredient of another dish. A classic example of a consumable game was Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord where killing most monsters actually deleted them from the original disk.
Eventually they'll get there with on-line sales (nothing physical to resell), but in the meantime they'll make it so that your game disk only allows one installation and self-destructs immediately afterward leaving only the copy on your console's drive. They can effectively do that now by requiring a single-use installation code.
Maybe it's like trademarks? If you don't rigorously defend your sovereignty, you lose it?