The thing is correct for exchange rates is pretty meaningless. All it says is how much $1AU is worth to an american, not how much its worth to an aussie.
A better way to do it would be to rank it on the relative costs of something like a big mac. Or as a fraction of GDP/capita.
I believe the cost of city living is roughly half what it is the US in AU.
In summary, the harddrive was fucking pricey.
Spam is annoying and all, but how about teaching them to read first.
I think you were pressing the wrong key dude
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The help key was actually located between backspace and delete, typically where you'd find insert on a PC keyboard (ie the bit between the main keyboard and the numeric one). Except on amigas they didn't have home, end and page up/down. So delete is on the same row as help.
From what i gather one of the reasons swap is considered necessary is that its not possible to shift pages around in physical memory to optimize things.
(Note: this is me speaking out of my arse, please correct me flamefree:P)
Say you have 100 meg of ram (to make things easier) and 5 applications have 10 meg of ram allocated to them at equally distant addresses. Application #1 says it needs 60 meg allocated sequentially. In order to do that 60 megs, a couple of other apps will need to be swapped out.
Now, without swap that wouldn't be possible, so the allocation would fail.
So what interests me is if you had a RAM disk set as swap would that make this possible, and the whole swap thing more efficient? Say 1/4 ram is ram-swap, and have another 512meg as disk swap at a lower priority?
One of the major problems with Windows and IE isn't so much the quality of the code, but the fact that everyone is running the same code, hell even the same binary. Hence the worms can be spread so easily.
Mozilla/Firewombat have so many different versions floating about that a large scale exploit would be very difficult to pull off.
The fact that mozilla's ssl implementation is new and probably less tested will never make it more of a target than IEs or windows, even if mozilla became as popular. (So long as mozilla is forever in active development.)
Its possible that knocking out 80% of terrestrial life could wipe out only 30% of the species or some number like that.
I'd probably be a case of massive starvation, and lots of large communities of animals being dessimated, and breaking off into multiple and much much smaller populations. Obviously anything that happened to have a nice little niche at ground zero might not be quite so lucky.
Actually the top transmission speed is ~100m/s. Thats for the phattest, most heavily mylenated nerves. Thin, unmylenated nerves (like the ones for pain sensation) are like 0.5 to 2 metres a second.
You can demonstrate that by putting your hand on a hotplate. Everyone try it.
Another thing you should consider when talking about nerve speeds is that synaptic transmission is far from instantaneous too. 0.5milliseconds at its fastest i believe.
It costs a metric fuck-load to track and drive the rovers like they are now.
I'd say a good 100 million of the budget would be staying at this end to pay for satelite time, man hours, consulting, computation and all kinds of things.
2 Rovers running something like 8 hours a day each, and its not exactly a kid with radio controller at this end.
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The thing is correct for exchange rates is pretty meaningless. All it says is how much $1AU is worth to an american, not how much its worth to an aussie. A better way to do it would be to rank it on the relative costs of something like a big mac. Or as a fraction of GDP/capita. I believe the cost of city living is roughly half what it is the US in AU. In summary, the harddrive was fucking pricey.
Wow, what a round about way to say "What the fuck?"
Spam is annoying and all, but how about teaching them to read first.
The help key was actually located between backspace and delete, typically where you'd find insert on a PC keyboard (ie the bit between the main keyboard and the numeric one). Except on amigas they didn't have home, end and page up/down. So delete is on the same row as help.
Perhaps you should have RTFK.
I don't wear pants you insensitive clod(s).
From what i gather one of the reasons swap is considered necessary is that its not possible to shift pages around in physical memory to optimize things.
:P)
(Note: this is me speaking out of my arse, please correct me flamefree
Say you have 100 meg of ram (to make things easier) and 5 applications have 10 meg of ram allocated to them at equally distant addresses. Application #1 says it needs 60 meg allocated sequentially. In order to do that 60 megs, a couple of other apps will need to be swapped out.
Now, without swap that wouldn't be possible, so the allocation would fail.
So what interests me is if you had a RAM disk set as swap would that make this possible, and the whole swap thing more efficient? Say 1/4 ram is ram-swap, and have another 512meg as disk swap at a lower priority?
Atleast according to that bug report the latest trunks load fine.
One of the major problems with Windows and IE isn't so much the quality of the code, but the fact that everyone is running the same code, hell even the same binary. Hence the worms can be spread so easily.
Mozilla/Firewombat have so many different versions floating about that a large scale exploit would be very difficult to pull off.
The fact that mozilla's ssl implementation is new and probably less tested will never make it more of a target than IEs or windows, even if mozilla became as popular. (So long as mozilla is forever in active development.)
Its possible that knocking out 80% of terrestrial life could wipe out only 30% of the species or some number like that. I'd probably be a case of massive starvation, and lots of large communities of animals being dessimated, and breaking off into multiple and much much smaller populations. Obviously anything that happened to have a nice little niche at ground zero might not be quite so lucky.
That was 128kbit/s wasn't it?
2 posts ago they were building stonehenge, now they have the 3rd largest supercomputer in the world.
I for one...
> Einstein would be rolling over in his grave if that were to happen.
Put one of the probes in space, then put on the ground near his grave.
If either detects frame dragging, you've solved one of lifes mysteries.
but don't the rovers already use radio isotopes to maintain the temperature for the internal electronics without costing battery power?
The human eye can detect a single photon, thats enough to trigger the rest of the stimulation pathways.
:P
But to actually see a star, well, i'd guess more than 1.
Maybe he should cut back on the sake a bit i say.
It actually refers to albums that have left the warehouses, not actually cash money sales.
An album could technically go platinum in its first week if they do a run at the factory of 50,000 (or whatever) and put them straight on a truck.
Oxygen (generated from simple plants or algae) is responsible for the single greatest extinction event known.
Apparently 95% of life on earth during the early period of plants was wiped out. They were mostly anerobic bacteria.
In fact oxygen is pretty nasty in aerobic organisms too, especially in the form of superoxides.
actually produces around 1 standard drink of alcohol a day.
Those kinda bacteria wouldn't survive well on a desk anyway. (Anerobic, in an aerobic environment.)
Actually the top transmission speed is ~100m/s. Thats for the phattest, most heavily mylenated nerves. Thin, unmylenated nerves (like the ones for pain sensation) are like 0.5 to 2 metres a second.
You can demonstrate that by putting your hand on a hotplate. Everyone try it.
Another thing you should consider when talking about nerve speeds is that synaptic transmission is far from instantaneous too. 0.5milliseconds at its fastest i believe.
if you build them they will come
(they being the windscreen washer people)
It costs something like 10,000 litres of water per kilogram of cotton.
Or ~1000 litres per kilogram of beef.
Clearly, we should all be eating and wearing monitors.
Theres massive fine of $35 if you don't.
Chances are, from some obscure open source project. :)
It costs a metric fuck-load to track and drive the rovers like they are now.
I'd say a good 100 million of the budget would be staying at this end to pay for satelite time, man hours, consulting, computation and all kinds of things.
2 Rovers running something like 8 hours a day each, and its not exactly a kid with radio controller at this end.
Wouldn't it be better to find the real thing?