> Who is going to want a USB stick formatted so it won't work on the operating system running on upwards of ninety percent of desktops and laptops?
I, for one, would. Right now, I use HFS+ for everything (internal, external) but if OS X could read/write something that would also work on Linux, I'd be happy to use that. If it wasn't readable on a Windows machine, it wouldn't make a lick of difference to me.
Could you imagine a kid nowadays putting down Angry Birds to figure out assembly code on his Intel i7 core-whatever? I don't know how kids today or in the future are going to learn the basics like we did.
I dunno. I had access to tons of Apple ][ games when I was a kid, and although I spent a good amount of time playing them, I still spent as much time learning assembly language, BASIC, and writing my own games. Things haven't changed that much in 30 years. Games are better now, but not necessarily more potentially distracting. It's really the person and not the situation.
That's assuming the disk is relatively quiet, yes. But I really doubt that the additional seeks from other activities would make a noticeable difference on a 1080p compressed movie. A 12-GB 2-hour movie, for example, is only 1.7 MBytes/second of data, which is easily slurped up by the disk controller in a single seek (unless the disk is highly fragmented). A media player will pre-buffer a couple seconds of video, so you should be able to do quite a bit else in the background. Now, if we're talking uncompressed video, then I completely agree that performance would suffer from doing other things in the background.
And besides, the average person doesn't really need the performance of a SSD just to watch a movie. To edit/scratch/whatever perhaps, but not to watch movies or listen to mp3s. A slower HDD is fine for that.
Um, the average person doesn't need SSD performance just to watch a movie??? I don't think anyone needs SSD speeds to watch a movie. Even uncompressed 1080p24 video at 16:9 aspect ratio is only 149.3 MB/s. And nobody watches a movie as uncompressed video, unless you're in the editing room, in which case you're not watching it anyway but editing and scrubbing and stuff.
A two-hour long 50GB Blu-Ray movie is only 6.9 MB/s. Multiply that by 4x for 3840x2160 (which isn't even available yet) and you're still only talking 27.8 MB/s — which even USB2 can handle easily.
First of all, that's not even valid Perl. You can't write "sin($aa) sin($bb)" or "$aa*$aa $bb*$bb" because the space character is not an operator (in AWK, it's the string concatenation operator in certain contexts).
Second, the assignments to $aa and $bb are confusing because you left out parentheses around the right-hand side. This is not Perl's fault; it's the author of the code's fault that it's confusing. It would be much clearer as:
my ($aa) = ($a =~/(\d+)/);
Third, what the hell is this code trying to do? If you're going to take the sine of a number, why are you plucking out only the digits [0-9] from the $a and $b strings? Why are you ignoring decimal points? Are you trying to do some kind of 2D linear algebraic expression manipulation here?
Finger slipped and I accidentally modded parent as 'Redundant' — I meant to mod it as 'Insightful'. Sorry. I wish I could undo, but/. doesn't allow that. Hopefully, by posting this reply, all my mods on this story will be un-done, and that will at least correct the mis-mod.
According to this graph, in 1990, there were 120k deaths per 100k people amongst the 0-6 day age group alone. I could have sworn that there were at least a few children that survived the decade.
But this does not mean that "mathematics" itself was discovered. It was not. It was invented.
Strenuously Disagree with you on that.
Mathematics was (and is still being) very much discovered — not invented.
Mathematics was here long before ever were, and it will be here long after we're gone, and long after the Universe cools down to nothingness. Mathematics just is.
Any intelligent species will eventually discover things in mathematics, as we have. And of course we've only begun to scratch the minutest surface of Mathematics.
Study your history and you can trace its invention and gradual refinement over the course of history.
History records not the invention of mathematics, my friend, but its discovery. Many small discoveries in combination. Mathematics truths exist independently from their discoverer.
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Not really. Magnetism trails off with the cube of the distance, rather than the square of the distance.
Well, if you're legitimately drunk, your body has ways to shut that whole thing down.
Well, if it's big enough, it could wipe CA and SK in the same hit.
> Who is going to want a USB stick formatted so it won't work on the operating system running on upwards of ninety percent of desktops and laptops?
I, for one, would. Right now, I use HFS+ for everything (internal, external) but if OS X could read/write something that would also work on Linux, I'd be happy to use that. If it wasn't readable on a Windows machine, it wouldn't make a lick of difference to me.
Could you imagine a kid nowadays putting down Angry Birds to figure out assembly code on his Intel i7 core-whatever? I don't know how kids today or in the future are going to learn the basics like we did.
I dunno. I had access to tons of Apple ][ games when I was a kid, and although I spent a good amount of time playing them, I still spent as much time learning assembly language, BASIC, and writing my own games. Things haven't changed that much in 30 years. Games are better now, but not necessarily more potentially distracting. It's really the person and not the situation.
That's assuming the disk is relatively quiet, yes. But I really doubt that the additional seeks from other activities would make a noticeable difference on a 1080p compressed movie. A 12-GB 2-hour movie, for example, is only 1.7 MBytes/second of data, which is easily slurped up by the disk controller in a single seek (unless the disk is highly fragmented). A media player will pre-buffer a couple seconds of video, so you should be able to do quite a bit else in the background. Now, if we're talking uncompressed video, then I completely agree that performance would suffer from doing other things in the background.
LOL
Thank you for this.
Um, the average person doesn't need SSD performance just to watch a movie??? I don't think anyone needs SSD speeds to watch a movie. Even uncompressed 1080p24 video at 16:9 aspect ratio is only 149.3 MB/s. And nobody watches a movie as uncompressed video, unless you're in the editing room, in which case you're not watching it anyway but editing and scrubbing and stuff.
A two-hour long 50GB Blu-Ray movie is only 6.9 MB/s. Multiply that by 4x for 3840x2160 (which isn't even available yet) and you're still only talking 27.8 MB/s — which even USB2 can handle easily.
Battlestar Galactica invented paper with octagonal corners.
First of all, that's not even valid Perl. You can't write "sin($aa) sin($bb)" or "$aa*$aa $bb*$bb" because the space character is not an operator (in AWK, it's the string concatenation operator in certain contexts).
Second, the assignments to $aa and $bb are confusing because you left out parentheses around the right-hand side. This is not Perl's fault; it's the author of the code's fault that it's confusing. It would be much clearer as:
my ($aa) = ($a =~ /(\d+)/);
Third, what the hell is this code trying to do? If you're going to take the sine of a number, why are you plucking out only the digits [0-9] from the $a and $b strings? Why are you ignoring decimal points? Are you trying to do some kind of 2D linear algebraic expression manipulation here?
Parent should be modded Insightful, not Funny.
What, you can properly hyphenate dual-core, but you can't be bothered to properly hyphenate ultra-light and low-power when used as adjectives?
A leader need not be paying to be boss.
It's the best comment I've read all day.
Finger slipped and I accidentally modded parent as 'Redundant' — I meant to mod it as 'Insightful'. Sorry. I wish I could undo, but /. doesn't allow that. Hopefully, by posting this reply, all my mods on this story will be un-done, and that will at least correct the mis-mod.
I don't know where you're getting "Ceti Tualpha Five"... It was Ceti Alpha V.
120k deaths per 100k people? How's that work?
>If that were the case, a simple IRS audit of their expense reports would blow it away from orbit.
...It's the only way to be sure.
...is how I misread the headline at first.
LOL. :-)
As reported:
Samsung Galaxy S3 — 18.0 million units
Apple iPhone 4S — 16.2 million units
Apple iPhone 5 — 6.0 million units
Now let's look at it in an actually meaningful way:
Apple iPhone 4S & 5 — 22.2 million units
Samsung Galaxy S3 — 18.0 million units
Source: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20121108005702/en/Strategy-Analytics-Samsung-Galaxy-S3-Worlds-Best-Selling
...It's full of old stars.
Strenuously Disagree with you on that.
Mathematics was (and is still being) very much discovered — not invented.
Mathematics was here long before ever were, and it will be here long after we're gone, and long after the Universe cools down to nothingness. Mathematics just is.
Any intelligent species will eventually discover things in mathematics, as we have. And of course we've only begun to scratch the minutest surface of Mathematics.
History records not the invention of mathematics, my friend, but its discovery. Many small discoveries in combination. Mathematics truths exist independently from their discoverer.
Am I the only one who misread the title at first as: ICANN To Replace 'Digital Archery' Program With Rifle ?