Try to restore from the Steam backup sometime. You will find that you are unable to do so without first installing Steam, and then logging in to your account to verify that you have purchased the game you are restoring. You may even find that you cannot let someone else, using their own account, restore a game from your account's backup, even if they own that game.
The main benefit of performing the backup is to prevent having to download the game in its entirety again. In my experience at least, it in no way reduces the need for internet access.
Floppies are "half base-2 and half base-10", that is if you believe that 3.5" HD floppies were capable of 1.44M(i)B, and 5.25" floppies 1.2M(i)B.
3.5": At 80 tracks, 2 heads, and 18 sectors there are 2880 sectors of 512 Bytes apiece, for 1440 kibiBytes, (not kiloBytes). Divide this by 1000, and you get 1.44 kilokibiBytes.
In other words, in strict base 2 you get. 2880*512/1024/1024=1.40625MiB. in base 10: 2880*512/1,000/1000=1,474,56MB in base "kilokibi": 2880*512/1024/1000=1.44kikB
5.25": At 80 tracks, 2 heads, and 15 sectors there are 2400 sectors of 512 Bytes apiece, for 1200 kibiBytes, (not kiloBytes). Divide this by 1000, and you get 1.2 kilokibiBytes.
In other words, in strict base 2 you get. 2400*512/1024/1024=1.171,875MiB. in base 10: 2400*512/1,000/1000=1.228,8MB in base "kilokibi": 2400*512/1024/1000=1.2kikB
The wings in space are potentially there to act as radiators to get rid of excess heat. I know it is a stretch, but possible. "Wings in attack formation" for X-wings spread them out, potentially increasing heat radiation with the expectation that with lasers blasting and larger amounts of maneuvering, there would be more heat loading. Or it might just be to look cool. Or to spread the lasers to an even more unweildy configuration.
I've not had a chance to use it, but as a product that has come out of the research wing of Microsoft, it may actually be quite good. Now, if only it ran on Linux....
Conveniently, a fresh one looks very similar to the shinyness of generic sticker material or white nail polish or white out depending on the surface texture.
Actually, magnetic torquers CAN be used to increase altitude as well as maintain attitude. The issue is whether there is enough spare power for it to be worthwhile.
Daleks had no issue with self-levetation in Who lore. The earliest mention of it is in 1965 with "The Chase", though it was first witnessed in 1988 with the seventh Doctor in "Rememberance of the Daleks". The "ELEVATE!" scene in the new series was mostly just fan service.
"The 7200.12 is the first desktop hard drive to fit 500GB of data on to a single platter and manages to hold 1TB by using just two platters versus as many as four on other disks." --Electronista
You can stubbornly call it Ukraine in all cases, but I prefer to follow the spoken english aid of adding a definite article to precurse the yoo sound, for instance, after a preceding oo as in "to the Ukraine". Per proper English pronounciation, the 'the' in this case is with a long 'ee' as with 'thee'. While there is nothing requiring the 'the' in this case, there is likewise nothing prohibiting it, and the pronunciation aid makes it useful. It is likewise useful in other linguistic gymnastics with preceding vowel sounds.
As a supporting argument against the insistence on dropping the 'the', I find the common dialect often also refers to the Yukon, the Yucatan, the Gambia, the Congo, the Netherlands, the United States. The argument that 'the' is unnecessary because there is only a singular Ukraine fails in the other cases, since there is similarly only one Gambia, Yukon, etc.
Anywhere between 0 and a bit less than 700MB of data, depending on desired quality of video. A one frame video stream with an unrecognized FOURCC tag as an alternate stream is valid AVI - the alternate stream is ignored by players, and can contain encrypted data. It is 'invisible' to non-uber users, and could concievably be an "experimental audio codec" for plausable deniability.
At least on the old gray GameBoy. Play on B mode, from 1-1 through 9-5, and you get to watch the full band play the victory song.
Obviously A mode does not have an end - its like a (then contemporary) 80's pop song that just fades away at the end, like the contrast on the screen as the batteries die after 8 hours of play...
There is "Heart Mode" (a difficulty enhancing cheat mode basically) but I've pretty much given up on that being beatable at 9-5. You can move the blocks a maximum of 2 space sideways before they touch down making line completion impossible.
But of course Toshiba has the BIOS freely downloadable on their site, for the challenge/response system to be reverse engineered at the leisure of the attacker (unless they decrypt the BIOS upon flashing in hardware, using some key stored in NVM, which is probably not the case). This would all be nice, real mode x86 with no hidden libraries to search for, and a simple assembly job, searching for a call to the data segment "PLEASE TYPE IN CMOS RESET CODE", and solving the hash. Or, if it is a good hash, reflashing/replacing the bios chip with one that has an appropriate JMP command inserted, or BNE replaced with BEQ, so that the only response that doesnt work is the right one:-)
The HDD password system stores the hash in the drives EEPROM, not the platter. It does not encrypt the contents of the platter, but just makes the drive unresponsive. To recover data from toasted drives in the past I have had success swapping controller boards when that is that part that failed. You lose all the information on bad sectors, but depending on how valuable the data is, 99.99% good data is better than 0 data. I cannot say I have tried this for password locked hard drives, but it is very possible that the controller board swap method would allow access to the data, good enough for a not-quite forensic sector-by-sector copy to be made.
You also risk corrupting all data on the drive. Sometimes the risks are worth it.
"The Memory cannot be destroyed, Houghi, son of Hoin, by any craft that we here possess. The Memory was made in the fires of Mount Luxor. Only there can it be unmade. It must be taken deep into Vegas and cast back into the fiery chasm from whence [sic] it came."
- Fellowship of the Cup
Because AMD, knowing that the compiler specifically uses certain slow methods to make the chips appear slower, has since modified current CPUS to make the intentionally (and previously) slower commands more snappy. Not as good as the use of the more optimized commands, of course, but at least better than the baselined non-crippled generic x86.
Or because Intel actually did include an optimization or two for AMD processors, perhaps unintentionally, or intentionally through the re-use of other compiler code...
The triple point is not as important as the fact that water expands as it freezes (generally) due to the configuration of the crystals formed. By doing so, it becomes more buoyant, and floats, causing lakes to freeze from the top down. This insulates the lake body from the weather and generally insures that the lake bottom remains warmer than freezing. Ethane and methane would freeze from the bottom up, causing problems to no end for things that would want to live there.
Not all oxidation requires Oxygen. Reference the Na Cl reaction as just one trivial example. However the production of flames rather than kabooms requires something to moderate the reaction. It would be interesting to find what reactions could take place at Titan's STP.
Shaking your laptop is how you erase it. You have to hold it upside down though. And make sure the nib is in the correct position for your next drawing before erasing, or you will have to leave a trace to get it there, potentially ruining your new masterpiece right from the beginning. True masters purge the contents before drawing so the art is permanent.
Not necessarily... I COULD be using the Brightnet as a random data source. In which case the random blocks are indeed nothing more than random blocks moving into my RNG darkChaos machine.
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Try to restore from the Steam backup sometime. You will find that you are unable to do so without first installing Steam, and then logging in to your account to verify that you have purchased the game you are restoring. You may even find that you cannot let someone else, using their own account, restore a game from your account's backup, even if they own that game.
The main benefit of performing the backup is to prevent having to download the game in its entirety again. In my experience at least, it in no way reduces the need for internet access.
Floppies are "half base-2 and half base-10", that is if you believe that 3.5" HD floppies were capable of 1.44M(i)B, and 5.25" floppies 1.2M(i)B.
3.5":
At 80 tracks, 2 heads, and 18 sectors there are 2880 sectors of 512 Bytes apiece, for 1440 kibiBytes, (not kiloBytes). Divide this by 1000, and you get 1.44 kilokibiBytes.
In other words, in strict base 2 you get.
2880*512/1024/1024=1.40625MiB.
in base 10:
2880*512/1,000/1000=1,474,56MB
in base "kilokibi":
2880*512/1024/1000=1.44kikB
5.25":
At 80 tracks, 2 heads, and 15 sectors there are 2400 sectors of 512 Bytes apiece, for 1200 kibiBytes, (not kiloBytes). Divide this by 1000, and you get 1.2 kilokibiBytes.
In other words, in strict base 2 you get.
2400*512/1024/1024=1.171,875MiB.
in base 10:
2400*512/1,000/1000=1.228,8MB
in base "kilokibi":
2400*512/1024/1000=1.2kikB
In the same pattern, Skype over Edge works as well, so on 3g it is even less of a problem.
Then you're doing it wrong. Google Voice supports Gizmo clients.
The wings in space are potentially there to act as radiators to get rid of excess heat. I know it is a stretch, but possible. "Wings in attack formation" for X-wings spread them out, potentially increasing heat radiation with the expectation that with lasers blasting and larger amounts of maneuvering, there would be more heat loading. Or it might just be to look cool. Or to spread the lasers to an even more unweildy configuration.
Obviously you have not heard of the Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb648760.aspx
I've not had a chance to use it, but as a product that has come out of the research wing of Microsoft, it may actually be quite good. Now, if only it ran on Linux....
Conveniently, a fresh one looks very similar to the shinyness of generic sticker material or white nail polish or white out depending on the surface texture.
Just a thought.
Actually, magnetic torquers CAN be used to increase altitude as well as maintain attitude. The issue is whether there is enough spare power for it to be worthwhile.
Daleks had no issue with self-levetation in Who lore. The earliest mention of it is in 1965 with "The Chase", though it was first witnessed in 1988 with the seventh Doctor in "Rememberance of the Daleks". The "ELEVATE!" scene in the new series was mostly just fan service.
"The 7200.12 is the first desktop hard drive to fit 500GB of data on to a single platter and manages to hold 1TB by using just two platters versus as many as four on other disks." --Electronista
You can stubbornly call it Ukraine in all cases, but I prefer to follow the spoken english aid of adding a definite article to precurse the yoo sound, for instance, after a preceding oo as in "to the Ukraine". Per proper English pronounciation, the 'the' in this case is with a long 'ee' as with 'thee'. While there is nothing requiring the 'the' in this case, there is likewise nothing prohibiting it, and the pronunciation aid makes it useful. It is likewise useful in other linguistic gymnastics with preceding vowel sounds.
As a supporting argument against the insistence on dropping the 'the', I find the common dialect often also refers to the Yukon, the Yucatan, the Gambia, the Congo, the Netherlands, the United States. The argument that 'the' is unnecessary because there is only a singular Ukraine fails in the other cases, since there is similarly only one Gambia, Yukon, etc.
NTFS-3G which works with MacFUSE has full NTFS write support. It is, however, much slower at reading than the native NTFS read-only driver.
Reference: Donkey + Horse = Mule
Equus asinus +
Equus caballus =
Equus caballus + asinus??
Of course it only works for one generation.
Anywhere between 0 and a bit less than 700MB of data, depending on desired quality of video. A one frame video stream with an unrecognized FOURCC tag as an alternate stream is valid AVI - the alternate stream is ignored by players, and can contain encrypted data. It is 'invisible' to non-uber users, and could concievably be an "experimental audio codec" for plausable deniability.
The only LOGICAL use for wireless USB is so that you can charge all your devices without plugging them in... oh, wait... it doesn't charge them...
Could someone please explain the point of Wireless USB to me?
At least on the old gray GameBoy. Play on B mode, from 1-1 through 9-5, and you get to watch the full band play the victory song.
Obviously A mode does not have an end - its like a (then contemporary) 80's pop song that just fades away at the end, like the contrast on the screen as the batteries die after 8 hours of play...
There is "Heart Mode" (a difficulty enhancing cheat mode basically) but I've pretty much given up on that being beatable at 9-5. You can move the blocks a maximum of 2 space sideways before they touch down making line completion impossible.
But of course Toshiba has the BIOS freely downloadable on their site, for the challenge/response system to be reverse engineered at the leisure of the attacker (unless they decrypt the BIOS upon flashing in hardware, using some key stored in NVM, which is probably not the case). This would all be nice, real mode x86 with no hidden libraries to search for, and a simple assembly job, searching for a call to the data segment "PLEASE TYPE IN CMOS RESET CODE", and solving the hash. Or, if it is a good hash, reflashing/replacing the bios chip with one that has an appropriate JMP command inserted, or BNE replaced with BEQ, so that the only response that doesnt work is the right one :-)
The HDD password system stores the hash in the drives EEPROM, not the platter. It does not encrypt the contents of the platter, but just makes the drive unresponsive. To recover data from toasted drives in the past I have had success swapping controller boards when that is that part that failed. You lose all the information on bad sectors, but depending on how valuable the data is, 99.99% good data is better than 0 data. I cannot say I have tried this for password locked hard drives, but it is very possible that the controller board swap method would allow access to the data, good enough for a not-quite forensic sector-by-sector copy to be made.
You also risk corrupting all data on the drive. Sometimes the risks are worth it.
"The Memory cannot be destroyed, Houghi, son of Hoin, by any craft that we here possess. The Memory was made in the fires of Mount Luxor. Only there can it be unmade. It must be taken deep into Vegas and cast back into the fiery chasm from whence [sic] it came."
- Fellowship of the Cup
Because AMD, knowing that the compiler specifically uses certain slow methods to make the chips appear slower, has since modified current CPUS to make the intentionally (and previously) slower commands more snappy. Not as good as the use of the more optimized commands, of course, but at least better than the baselined non-crippled generic x86.
Or because Intel actually did include an optimization or two for AMD processors, perhaps unintentionally, or intentionally through the re-use of other compiler code...
The triple point is not as important as the fact that water expands as it freezes (generally) due to the configuration of the crystals formed. By doing so, it becomes more buoyant, and floats, causing lakes to freeze from the top down. This insulates the lake body from the weather and generally insures that the lake bottom remains warmer than freezing. Ethane and methane would freeze from the bottom up, causing problems to no end for things that would want to live there.
Not all oxidation requires Oxygen. Reference the Na Cl reaction as just one trivial example. However the production of flames rather than kabooms requires something to moderate the reaction. It would be interesting to find what reactions could take place at Titan's STP.
Shaking your laptop is how you erase it. You have to hold it upside down though. And make sure the nib is in the correct position for your next drawing before erasing, or you will have to leave a trace to get it there, potentially ruining your new masterpiece right from the beginning. True masters purge the contents before drawing so the art is permanent.
- Life according to Etch-a-Sketch
Thats about the time you have to fsck your Brightnet to fix the crosslinked files :-D
Not necessarily... I COULD be using the Brightnet as a random data source. In which case the random blocks are indeed nothing more than random blocks moving into my RNG darkChaos machine.
I still have an Evergreen C6 in my Overdrive socket.
Get off my lawn!