What engineering references? I've never seen a it used in any datasheet, or technical manual. Most of them clarify which MB or GB they use where, but very few use MiB or GiB. None use "mebi-" or "gibi-" anything.
If by "engineering reference and texts" you mean a textbook, then note that your particular textbook is not the only one around, and 4 out of 5 stick with the ambiguous notation.
How is parent offtopic if it's a direct answer to gramdparent. Who the fuck modded grandparent troll when it's obviously a joke? Are the mods on drugs today, or are they just being mods?
He's probably from the US, where the power cord is specifically designed to disconnect power before disconnecting ground, with the ground prong a whole quarter inch longer than the other two. It usually works as intended, except thatan electrical connection between the ground prong and the socket contact is necessarily flaky while the prong is being pulled out, and your equipment could fry as a result.
I've never heard "kibibyte" or "mebibyte", or seen them actually used. Have you? I didn't even know what they were until I've read your post. I have seen GiB and MiB, and I've always confused GB and GiB as to which one is which.
Now, it might be that I'm just sooo ignorant, or it might be that no one actually uses that fine standard... the latter being, I'm afraid, the more likely case. Which means that ths standard is rather irrelevant.
You had to let the autopilot do everything. Ok that's probably how it would really be...
Kinda makes you think whether a space fighter would be really laid out the way they always do it in the movies, with the engine thrust vector at the back and the cabin up front, and main guns up front. The planes mostly maneuver sideways, using their wings to create the sideways force that turns the plane.
Since in space using the engine would be the only way of turning, wouldn't a dog fight in space be flown sideways? Or rather, kinda diagonally to the thrust vector? The main engine would have to pivot around the cabin and to create sideways and reverse forces.
It seems counter-natural, for us atmospheric dwellers, but I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to get used to flying that way. You could probably also benefit from using the right set of instruments, to replace artificial horizon and altimeter.
Give them somethign in the same form factor that also plays music and you've got a winner.
Cell phones are highly abused gadgets, much more so than portable music players or pretty much anything else short of wrist watches and key fobs. Which means that most people get cheap or free phones and treat them as disposable, at least in the US, where there is such thing as cheap and free phones. Which means that hard drives in phones wouldn't be a good solution for most people, because they are fragile and expensive and bulky, and flash memory will be a good solution when it comes down in price. Just wait another year.
I'd say the biggets problem with this is making sure the plastic in all the components is oil-compatible, i.e. doesn't degrade or dissolve. The bottoms of most shoes do, as anyone knows who stepped in a puddle of oil in a garage. So why not plastic used as structural material and insulation?
Also, loading a fan by making it spin in oil might make it use more power than normal, possibly overloading and overheating either the motor or the drive circuit, though the better cooling provided by the oil could alleviate that.
So, compared to the normal elevator, this thing has a pump at the top instead of a winch, and a pressure-tight seal in the tube. Nothing else is really different.
Where, again, does the cost benefit come from? Are there any other reasons not to use a regular winch?
I think you underestimating the ability of the brain to adapt to different input. Besides you don't necessarily need implants to have 360 degree vision, or a long zoom lens - it could be a helmet-mounted camera/monitor system. Implants would just make it more portable.
You can't prevent someone with a physical access to your computer from destroying it, and they won't need a magnet:-). I'd be more concerned about being able to read your data.
This is a problem most realistically comes up with stolen laptops - many laptop users care much more about the information on their hard drives not falling into wrong hands then about the loss of hardware.
You have two basic choices:
1. You can encrypt the drive, and the data will be safe.
2. Or, you can leave the drive unencrypted, and install some theft-prevention software on it, hoping that the thief, being stupid enough to be a criminal, will also be stupid enough to connect your OS installation on the internet instead of formatting and reinstalling.
I mostly use no-ip.com dynamic update client for this. It also serves to give the computer a globally visible DNS name, independent of its IP and location, which is its main design function.
Your choice should be based on what's more dear to you - your data or your expensive toy.
There is another, combined, option -
3. Encrypt only the data, or only the partition with the data on it, but not the boot drive. However, with Windows you can hardly prevent at least some remnants of your data from leaking over to your boot drive (in the form of temp files, and who knows what else).
I heard of an escalator accident in 1982 in Moscow, Russia, when an escalator maimed and killed about 40 people. The transmission that connected the motor to the stairs broked and disconnected, and brakes failed, causing 100 people on the escalator to slide down within a few seconds. The only English-language internet reference that I found is
I know of this from an indirect witness account (i.e. someone who knows someone who seen it). There were several brakes/safeties in that escalator, all of which happily failed. If you can read Russian, google for aviamotornaya station, 1982.
Fair point, but encrypting doesn't protect your data. It stops others from reading it, but not from randomly messing it up
Hmm... How about this: checksum the data before encrypting, and store the checksum along with the encrypted data.
Better yet, encrypt the checksum along with the data, to prevent an attacker from using the information contained in the checksum for his cryptoanalysis efforts.
Hitler couldn't afford to deal with Britain first. If Hitler had waited any longer to invade Russia, Stalin would attack first. He was getting ready to invade Germany some time between two weeks and two months after the Germany's actual invasion date.
Interestingly, if you consider the consequences of this turn of events, then Stalin would've probably had the whole Europe for 50 years, instead of just Eastern Europe, but the rest of the history wouldn't change all that much.
That's just the deal with protection rackets - the police won't help, and you get to pay protection one way or the other.
The difference between the good guy and the bad guy is that the bad guy threatens you himself, while the good guy uses the bad guy's threats (i.e. has someone do his dirty work for him, and then, as an expression of his gratitude, puts him in jail). Also, the good guy charges more. Oh, the irony.
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What engineering references? I've never seen a it used in any datasheet, or technical manual. Most of them clarify which MB or GB they use where, but very few use MiB or GiB. None use "mebi-" or "gibi-" anything.
If by "engineering reference and texts" you mean a textbook, then note that your particular textbook is not the only one around, and 4 out of 5 stick with the ambiguous notation.
How is parent offtopic if it's a direct answer to gramdparent. Who the fuck modded grandparent troll when it's obviously a joke? Are the mods on drugs today, or are they just being mods?
I am sure our local standard does.
He's probably from the US, where the power cord is specifically designed to disconnect power before disconnecting ground, with the ground prong a whole quarter inch longer than the other two. It usually works as intended, except thatan electrical connection between the ground prong and the socket contact is necessarily flaky while the prong is being pulled out, and your equipment could fry as a result.
I've never heard "kibibyte" or "mebibyte", or seen them actually used. Have you? I didn't even know what they were until I've read your post. I have seen GiB and MiB, and I've always confused GB and GiB as to which one is which.
Now, it might be that I'm just sooo ignorant, or it might be that no one actually uses that fine standard... the latter being, I'm afraid, the more likely case. Which means that ths standard is rather irrelevant.
You had to let the autopilot do everything. Ok that's probably how it would really be...
Kinda makes you think whether a space fighter would be really laid out the way they always do it in the movies, with the engine thrust vector at the back and the cabin up front, and main guns up front. The planes mostly maneuver sideways, using their wings to create the sideways force that turns the plane.
Since in space using the engine would be the only way of turning, wouldn't a dog fight in space be flown sideways? Or rather, kinda diagonally to the thrust vector? The main engine would have to pivot around the cabin and to create sideways and reverse forces.
It seems counter-natural, for us atmospheric dwellers, but I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to get used to flying that way. You could probably also benefit from using the right set of instruments, to replace artificial horizon and altimeter.
They care about ad impressions
Are there any ads on that page? I haven't noticed any... My adblock setup is getting almost too good.
Give them somethign in the same form factor that also plays music and you've got a winner.
Cell phones are highly abused gadgets, much more so than portable music players or pretty much anything else short of wrist watches and key fobs. Which means that most people get cheap or free phones and treat them as disposable, at least in the US, where there is such thing as cheap and free phones. Which means that hard drives in phones wouldn't be a good solution for most people, because they are fragile and expensive and bulky, and flash memory will be a good solution when it comes down in price. Just wait another year.
I'm not ever going to touch the iPod, iPod Mini and iPod Shuffle. And neither can the PC manufacturers.
Neither am I. Too gay for my taste:-)
I'd say the biggets problem with this is making sure the plastic in all the components is oil-compatible, i.e. doesn't degrade or dissolve. The bottoms of most shoes do, as anyone knows who stepped in a puddle of oil in a garage. So why not plastic used as structural material and insulation?
Also, loading a fan by making it spin in oil might make it use more power than normal, possibly overloading and overheating either the motor or the drive circuit, though the better cooling provided by the oil could alleviate that.
WTF is "somewhat comprehensively"? It's either "somewhat", or "comprehensively", you know..
So, compared to the normal elevator, this thing has a pump at the top instead of a winch, and a pressure-tight seal in the tube. Nothing else is really different.
Where, again, does the cost benefit come from? Are there any other reasons not to use a regular winch?
I don't think Visio was originally developed, or named by M$. They bought it up when it was Visio 4.0, AFAICR.
I think you underestimating the ability of the brain to adapt to different input. Besides you don't necessarily need implants to have 360 degree vision, or a long zoom lens - it could be a helmet-mounted camera/monitor system. Implants would just make it more portable.
You can't prevent someone with a physical access to your computer from destroying it, and they won't need a magnet:-). I'd be more concerned about being able to read your data.
This is a problem most realistically comes up with stolen laptops - many laptop users care much more about the information on their hard drives not falling into wrong hands then about the loss of hardware.
You have two basic choices:
1. You can encrypt the drive, and the data will be safe.
2. Or, you can leave the drive unencrypted, and install some theft-prevention software on it, hoping that the thief, being stupid enough to be a criminal, will also be stupid enough to connect your OS installation on the internet instead of formatting and reinstalling.
I mostly use no-ip.com dynamic update client for this. It also serves to give the computer a globally visible DNS name, independent of its IP and location, which is its main design function.
Your choice should be based on what's more dear to you - your data or your expensive toy.
There is another, combined, option -
3. Encrypt only the data, or only the partition with the data on it, but not the boot drive. However, with Windows you can hardly prevent at least some remnants of your data from leaking over to your boot drive (in the form of temp files, and who knows what else).
I heard of an escalator accident in 1982 in Moscow, Russia, when an escalator maimed and killed about 40 people. The transmission that connected the motor to the stairs broked and disconnected, and brakes failed, causing 100 people on the escalator to slide down within a few seconds. The only English-language internet reference that I found is
http://www.basedn.freeserve.co.uk/miscellany.htm
I know of this from an indirect witness account (i.e. someone who knows someone who seen it). There were several brakes/safeties in that escalator, all of which happily failed. If you can read Russian, google for aviamotornaya station, 1982.
-1, Citing TFA :-)
He meant he got the first post:-)
I just did. It says:
"The system cannot find the path specified."
The hack mush be broken again
Fair point, but encrypting doesn't protect your data. It stops others from reading it, but not from randomly messing it up
Hmm... How about this: checksum the data before encrypting, and store the checksum along with the encrypted data.
Better yet, encrypt the checksum along with the data, to prevent an attacker from using the information contained in the checksum for his cryptoanalysis efforts.
If the OS isn't running, it can't do jack to protect your data
What a common misconception... How 'bout an encrypted hard drive?
Hitler couldn't afford to deal with Britain first. If Hitler had waited any longer to invade Russia, Stalin would attack first. He was getting ready to invade Germany some time between two weeks and two months after the Germany's actual invasion date.
Interestingly, if you consider the consequences of this turn of events, then Stalin would've probably had the whole Europe for 50 years, instead of just Eastern Europe, but the rest of the history wouldn't change all that much.
..mentioning coral as a way of reducing the /. effect is an excellent idea.
Thanks.
Even better idea - can't you copy off your main page, and redirect your main page's URL to a coralized link?
That's just the deal with protection rackets - the police won't help, and you get to pay protection one way or the other.
The difference between the good guy and the bad guy is that the bad guy threatens you himself, while the good guy uses the bad guy's threats (i.e. has someone do his dirty work for him, and then, as an expression of his gratitude, puts him in jail). Also, the good guy charges more. Oh, the irony.
If you get slashdotted, can't you just coralize your own site for a while?
Microsoft releases Windows that can't crash:-)