At least I still had my RPN calculator to lend to the smartass premeds in chem lab. (Furious punching of keys followed by "Where's the Equals?") I had a guy try that on me. He was rather put out when he found I knew how to use it.
Wow, I can't imagine what we'll be doing with 18 billion billion bytes of *RAM*. That's what 64 bits of address space gives you. [bashing joke] maybe that will finally be enough to run vista at a decent speed. [/bashing joke]
actually, a friend of mine has been working on creating a durable-ized eeepc. Current method he's trying is encasing pretty much the entire outside of the thing in about a 2" layer of modified (mixed with some kind of metallic powder to allow decent thermal qualities, as it would have to be passively cooled.) soft silicone, along with a sealed keyboard, watertight plugs for all the ports, and gasketing around the edge of the screen and keyboard interior, covered in some army surplus untearabillium-infused fabric (same fabric as the older green Canadian combat uniform pants) to protect the silicone from abrasion.
No idea how well it's going, as I haven't talked to him in a few weeks (He's currently working with the base forces for the summer, but is doing this project on his own time), but it seems like a workable idea. The eeepc is sufficiently cheap that it's almost ideal for this kind of prototyping.
Vista has made a bunch of revenue. Whether that revenue will offset the sizable development cost of vista along with the spreading "I don't like it" sentiment that it has brought upon (both actual and perceived) is the question, which I don't have an answer to.
I was sure that figure was upwards of a million cycles per sector in modern flash chips.
Also, throw in wear-leveling and spare sectors. a million writes to a file system sector doesn't mean a million writes to a particular physical sector (could be 1000 writes each to a 1000 different sectors) and when a sector does wear out, it simply gets put out of service and is replaced with a spare one. this same principle is used in mechanical hard drives. if a sector is problematic to read from/write to, it gets marked as bad and the file system sector is remapped to somewhere else.
SSDs could quite likely last longer than mechanical hard drives in this regard.
Under fair use, you can even back up the things you own once for archival purposes. Unless there is some form of "protection" in use, effective or not.
OTOH, last time I checked, there has been no definitive ruling regarding DMCA v. Fair Use.
If someone would open one of those premium places around here, I'd be going to the movies much more often. As it stands, I haven't gone to a movie theatre in roughly 2 years for the same reasons.
Actually, they're currently working on using a LN-cooled superconductor link in NYC to link some substations in Manhattan. It would replace an oil-cooled copper link. They're expecting to have it running in 2010.
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The permits were available, but you had to have the stuff first to get the permit, which is illegal to have without the permit. Catch-22s are fun.
But I'm trying to print on legal!
On what grounds?
maybe that will finally be enough to run vista at a decent speed.
[/bashing joke]
What's the fun in that?
The supreme court will have a major say in it when they rule on District of Columbia v. Heller, which is expected by the end of this month.
actually, a friend of mine has been working on creating a durable-ized eeepc. Current method he's trying is encasing pretty much the entire outside of the thing in about a 2" layer of modified (mixed with some kind of metallic powder to allow decent thermal qualities, as it would have to be passively cooled.) soft silicone, along with a sealed keyboard, watertight plugs for all the ports, and gasketing around the edge of the screen and keyboard interior, covered in some army surplus untearabillium-infused fabric (same fabric as the older green Canadian combat uniform pants) to protect the silicone from abrasion.
No idea how well it's going, as I haven't talked to him in a few weeks (He's currently working with the base forces for the summer, but is doing this project on his own time), but it seems like a workable idea. The eeepc is sufficiently cheap that it's almost ideal for this kind of prototyping.
Vista has made a bunch of revenue. Whether that revenue will offset the sizable development cost of vista along with the spreading "I don't like it" sentiment that it has brought upon (both actual and perceived) is the question, which I don't have an answer to.
I was sure that figure was upwards of a million cycles per sector in modern flash chips.
Also, throw in wear-leveling and spare sectors. a million writes to a file system sector doesn't mean a million writes to a particular physical sector (could be 1000 writes each to a 1000 different sectors) and when a sector does wear out, it simply gets put out of service and is replaced with a spare one. this same principle is used in mechanical hard drives. if a sector is problematic to read from/write to, it gets marked as bad and the file system sector is remapped to somewhere else.
SSDs could quite likely last longer than mechanical hard drives in this regard.
Roughly as stupid as a depressing percentage of the voting population.
OTOH, 40% of the population doesn't vote, 25% will always vote republican, 25% will always vote democrat, and 10% actually select the government.
OTOH, last time I checked, there has been no definitive ruling regarding DMCA v. Fair Use.
If someone would open one of those premium places around here, I'd be going to the movies much more often. As it stands, I haven't gone to a movie theatre in roughly 2 years for the same reasons.
So will infaRecorder. It's available for the portableapps suite.
Actually, they're currently working on using a LN-cooled superconductor link in NYC to link some substations in Manhattan. It would replace an oil-cooled copper link. They're expecting to have it running in 2010.
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It's an engine that complies (or at least tries to) with standards.
And it seems that often they can't even be bothered with those simple rules.
What about EMACS? ;)
Create an interactive site, then post it to slashdot. Anyone opening book on how long the server will last?
That depends on where the burden of proof is placed. Do they have to prove it is encrypted data or do you have to prove that it isn't?
what about a small, seemingly unused space on the drive? unformatted space is theoretically indistinguishable from a truecrypt partition.
Free as in "absent".
Why do you assume that they need to prove that is encrypted data and not random garbage?
1. They're not required by law to encrypt stuff.
2. Encryption costs money, if not for the software, then in process overhead, training, etc.
3. There's no compelling reason (e.g. massive fines) to do so.