Wouldn't electronic storage have an advantage in this sense? Well, short of DRM, the ability to make exact copies and easily distribute them makes archiving a lot easier, and destroying something for religios/political reasons a lot harder.
To play devil's advocate - what about all the data that is lost forever because there is simply not enough paper to record it on (electronic storage has a much higher content/size ratio)?
As for incompatible older formats - is that like old languages which are hard to decipher? As mankind progresses extracting data from old electronic formats will be similar to extracting it from squiggles on stone pillars.
"As for 20GB disks to be fair there is space "wasted" by sector encodings and other data [ecc]. So really you do have 20GB [or more] of data on disk, just not 20GB usable by the FS.
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Well, partially, I think it's more along the lines that 1000MB = 1GB = 1GiB = 1024MB since marketing is hardly going to use GiB...
I know the sector encoding, etc took up a lot of space on a 2MB floppy, but somehow I don't think it's taking up around 10GB on a 160GB drive.
In how this is relevant to anything to do with mobile internet access - just a chance for me to tag on a complaint about the lack of 3G broadband speed unlimited wireless data service here in the UK.
I agree, surely they could add another input to their model along the lines of "promotional budget" if they suggest that this is what's causing the outliers?
On the correlation argument, if they use factors known prior to the song being a hit to predict that it will be, it's not correlation they are looking at but some sort of R^2 - which measures predictability (this is not about causality - they want to PREDICT, not find out _why_). Think of it this way, you can predict in advance that the sun will go down by measuring the decreasing pattern of the amount of light, but this does not mean that it getting progressively darker causes the sun to go down in a few hours.
Could you please provide a reference to a law? (I've got a copy of the Russian criminal code here - it's quite thin and doesn't seem to have anything remotely like what you mention in it - maybe on closer inspection...)
Ultimately, at a later stage, this will have to be tested with exposing people (volunteers) to the virus after the vaccination. Or at least I assume this is a requirement (in stage III?) for this to be deemed an effective vaccine.
I'll blame my lack of clarity on not reading the article.
Wouldn't a better idea be to seek volunteers in Congo - in high risk areas? Possibly near the area of the outbreak (/as soon as the next one starts so as to also try and prevent the spread of infection). Otherwise are they planning to infect the volunteers with Ebola... and don't expect anything to go wrong?
On the unethical side - if anything goes wrong it's not like the settlement in Congo will be remotely what it's in the west. People are probably less "freaked out"/don't understand the dangers, so volunteers would be easier to find. -- not that I support these reasons,
Yep, that's not an unreasonable average rate of inflation over the next half century. So implementing this project will result in wages only matching inflation, not growing along with GDP (about 5% - can't be bothered to lookup). As someone else pointed out - "a few billion apiece for the people who control the power".
But please, don't give the machines a power source that is solar based...
So, you are suggesting that the virii were written by admins of legitimate companies? I can, almost, buy the argument that the plain DoS attacks were from admins, but to suggest that an admin in a legitimate business wrote a virus to infect machines of innocent bystanders in order to get back for being blacklisted... now that's just... crap.
This makes me wonder, are people who come up with such excuses: a) spammers b) ummm... ?
You buy a license to receive the BBC's signal, not to own a TV (buy a TV, remove the tuner, use it as a monitor only and you don't need a license).
Now for licenses with dogs... You get a license to own a dog (like to own a firearm for lack of me being able to come up with a decent comparison), not that you license the dog from your local pet store. Although I can see it now:
this dog may be used "in only one household by the original purchaser only" and that "you may not allow individuals that did not purchase the original dog (to) use the Animal or any offspring produced using the Animal...". Please help us fight 'puppy piracy'.
Wouldn't they rebalance the scores though? Truth is I do not know, it would just seem reasonable (on the other hand I hear standardized college test scores have been creeping up for years - kind-of misses the whole point of 'standardized').
In England, being a third world country, this is clearly the reason for half price textbooks. Don't know about students in third world countries (doubt books are necessities though), but students from third world countries studying here do not seem to have a problem with high prices.
""It is not that expensive,'' he said, adding that the plan to send a Malaysian into space was part of a RM3.42bil deal to purchase Sukhoi SU-30 MKN fighter jets from Russia. "
Basically it's like the tourist trips before (once again only to the Russian part of the station?) - this time bundled with some fighter jets (wtf?).
Guess the Malaysian part is quite significant (developing country and all)... but do you realize how much troll food has just been provided?
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Wouldn't electronic storage have an advantage in this sense? Well, short of DRM, the ability to make exact copies and easily distribute them makes archiving a lot easier, and destroying something for religios/political reasons a lot harder.
To play devil's advocate - what about all the data that is lost forever because there is simply not enough paper to record it on (electronic storage has a much higher content/size ratio)?
As for incompatible older formats - is that like old languages which are hard to decipher? As mankind progresses extracting data from old electronic formats will be similar to extracting it from squiggles on stone pillars.
"As for 20GB disks to be fair there is space "wasted" by sector encodings and other data [ecc]. So really you do have 20GB [or more] of data on disk, just not 20GB usable by the FS. "
Well, partially, I think it's more along the lines that 1000MB = 1GB = 1GiB = 1024MB since marketing is hardly going to use GiB...
I know the sector encoding, etc took up a lot of space on a 2MB floppy, but somehow I don't think it's taking up around 10GB on a 160GB drive.
In how this is relevant to anything to do with mobile internet access - just a chance for me to tag on a complaint about the lack of 3G broadband speed unlimited wireless data service here in the UK.
I agree, surely they could add another input to their model along the lines of "promotional budget" if they suggest that this is what's causing the outliers?
On the correlation argument, if they use factors known prior to the song being a hit to predict that it will be, it's not correlation they are looking at but some sort of R^2 - which measures predictability (this is not about causality - they want to PREDICT, not find out _why_). Think of it this way, you can predict in advance that the sun will go down by measuring the decreasing pattern of the amount of light, but this does not mean that it getting progressively darker causes the sun to go down in a few hours.
I think the better question to get answered is what happens if one of those see through fish eat the glowing fish?
What if it's a glowing see through fish as well...
I guess what I want to know is what are the chances of getting see through glowing shit?
Could you please provide a reference to a law? (I've got a copy of the Russian criminal code here - it's quite thin and doesn't seem to have anything remotely like what you mention in it - maybe on closer inspection...)
Ultimately, at a later stage, this will have to be tested with exposing people (volunteers) to the virus after the vaccination. Or at least I assume this is a requirement (in stage III?) for this to be deemed an effective vaccine.
I'll blame my lack of clarity on not reading the article.
Wouldn't a better idea be to seek volunteers in Congo - in high risk areas? Possibly near the area of the outbreak (/as soon as the next one starts so as to also try and prevent the spread of infection). Otherwise are they planning to infect the volunteers with Ebola... and don't expect anything to go wrong?
On the unethical side - if anything goes wrong it's not like the settlement in Congo will be remotely what it's in the west. People are probably less "freaked out"/don't understand the dangers, so volunteers would be easier to find. -- not that I support these reasons,
I think I speak for most people: Where is the torrent for the video then!?!?!?
The google search and all... but I want links to sample pages. This has to be far too entertaining to see!
Only the sound effects to the software were 'stolen' - RIAI (... of Israel) is investigating.
The horror, the horror - even that won't work since it's microwave based.
Better get that simpsons inventor to build the solid sun blocker thingy quick!
Clearly 98 to 2000 would be better in that sense...
That's a whole 1902 for your money.
Where it all goes wrong is with Me and XP though.
150 = 35 * (1 + x) ^ 47
x = 3.14%
Yep, that's not an unreasonable average rate of inflation over the next half century. So implementing this project will result in wages only matching inflation, not growing along with GDP (about 5% - can't be bothered to lookup). As someone else pointed out - "a few billion apiece for the people who control the power".
But please, don't give the machines a power source that is solar based...
No, not yet, according to VCD Quality
:)
So, for now, you can resort to reviewing it without having seen it
So, you are suggesting that the virii were written by admins of legitimate companies? I can, almost, buy the argument that the plain DoS attacks were from admins, but to suggest that an admin in a legitimate business wrote a virus to infect machines of innocent bystanders in order to get back for being blacklisted... now that's just... crap.
This makes me wonder, are people who come up with such excuses: a) spammers b) ummm... ?
240x320 - more on A760 Specs and photo
:)
250 MB of RAM is nice, can't agree on the 'looks good' part though
If anything it will be good for RIAA - just watch Kazaa fill up with poor quality recordings that people make form this.
Oh, wait, that's already the case...
You buy a license to receive the BBC's signal, not to own a TV (buy a TV, remove the tuner, use it as a monitor only and you don't need a license).
Now for licenses with dogs... You get a license to own a dog (like to own a firearm for lack of me being able to come up with a decent comparison), not that you license the dog from your local pet store. Although I can see it now:
this dog may be used "in only one household by the original purchaser only" and that "you may not allow individuals that did not purchase the original dog (to) use the Animal or any offspring produced using the Animal...". Please help us fight 'puppy piracy'.
Wouldn't they rebalance the scores though? Truth is I do not know, it would just seem reasonable (on the other hand I hear standardized college test scores have been creeping up for years - kind-of misses the whole point of 'standardized').
Do you have a source on this by chance?
IQ scores, and most other intelligence tests, are bell curved - and so the scores are normally distributed - where the mean and median coincide.
In England, being a third world country, this is clearly the reason for half price textbooks. Don't know about students in third world countries (doubt books are necessities though), but students from third world countries studying here do not seem to have a problem with high prices.
I call bullshiat - only criminal charges have any influence on immigration/entry.
think of it this way: you got taken to court for a parking fine but still refused to pay - so now no coutry will let you in?
That's why I plan to watch FOX - they'll put in sound effects.
And insightful commentary...
""It is not that expensive,'' he said, adding that the plan to send a Malaysian into space was part of a RM3.42bil deal to purchase Sukhoi SU-30 MKN fighter jets from Russia. "
Basically it's like the tourist trips before (once again only to the Russian part of the station?) - this time bundled with some fighter jets (wtf?).
Guess the Malaysian part is quite significant (developing country and all)... but do you realize how much troll food has just been provided?