And, woosh, 1024PB will be nothing leaving us wondering how we could ever survive with a measly 250GB drive -- just as we ask ourselves today how life was with nothing but 170kB disk drives.
I'm not convinced by this myself. I do however see a need for super computers who need to work with filesystems spanning perhaps hundreds of disks. As for the desktop user, even if they did store their files in raw format, I doubt they'd use more than a few 10's of terabytes at the most.
Let's assume 1 UK litre of petrol is 100p which is a peak that it recently reached and stayed at for a couple of weeks at least. With the recent drop at the moment, it's around 85 - 90p.
Then at the current exchange rate
1 GBP = 1.85401 USD, so
1 US Gallon = 1.85401 * 3.7854 litres = $7.02 in the UK
It is more complicated than that. N. Korea (among other countries) have territory disputes with Japan. Japan's hands are tied because of Article 9 forbidding Japan from using threat or use of force to settle disputes.
I read in the Economist that Japan is thinking of increasing it's military and wants to remove the ban placed on them. But the magazine also considered strongly that this will further unite South Korea, China and Japan against North Korea, so I don't see how the nightmare will necessarily get worse.
But probably the biggest issue is that Kim Jong-il is a lunatic. Saddam Hussein was not a lunatic.
Where did you get this from? Was it just your humble opinion? I don't think anyone can say they know Kim Jong-il and what his true intentions are.
The soviets had a system called "Dead Hand" that was designed to actually destroy the entire planet including themselves. It was probably a system of last resort.
Yes, Gentoo breaks things all the time if your running on the unstable (~x86 for me).
I love to keep up with the latest versions of software and unfortunately whenever I do a world compile every month or so it not only takes forever, but a handful of packages will fail to compile with various errors that I don't understand and then it's time to hit the forums and hope that someone else has the solution.
I've been using Gentoo for over 2 years and been using it exclusively for my Desktop for almost that length of time. It's taken me ages and ages to customize to my liking, but once it's there I don't have to reinstall my system ever again unless I upgrade to a different machine arch. Part of the pain should be accepted as upgrading GCC and glibc isn't exactly a simple thing to do and I don't know any other disto that allows you to upgrade your entire distribution without reinstall over the net.
I agree. I can't see how Gnome can run well on 128MB and I've often read complaints from users that try.
Later Gnome releases are getting faster and there was a big drive in 2.14 to reduce memory usage, but most Win98 users running on old hardware will probably just upgrade to a new machine with XP/Vista.
What doesn't make sense to me is how galaxies nearly 13 Billion light years away are determined to be nearly as old as the Universe. My intuition tells me that light that old would have already passed us by soon after the big bang happened?
What you're both missing is that this doesn't categorically make Wikipedia more or less of a wiki. It makes Wikipedia less of a wiki for some users, and more of one for others. I think this is a Good Thing.
I think it's more of a wiki for EVERYONE.
The reason is that wiki means you can edit it. With the new rules applied to all protected and semi-protected pages, the encyclopedia would allow everyone to edit every page. As long as anonymous users can edit and view their own edits, the encyclopedia should see MORE growth. The only disadvantage is that not all users will be able to see the latest edits by default.
Now everyone can edit. This hasn't been the case for at least 5 years. So this means MORE wiki:-)
Nothing about battery life, all about plain old performance.;-)
Yes, this is right. But you should think about the disk activity going on when you set swappiness high and when you set swappiness low. Setting it higher means increased disk activity.
I suppose it depends on what the user is doing, but at the end of the day, swappiness DOES have an impact on battery performance when the disk has to be spun up just to do some swapping and perhaps the default of 60 is a little too high.
A bigger impact on battery performance though would be the/proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode parameter (off by default). Setting this can mean the disk doesn't spin up so often to flush dirty buffers.
People are missing the point here that a lot of physical memory is used for disk cache (pages of data from the disk drive accessed frequently) Just because you don't ever use more than your physical memory, doesn't mean to say you don't need any swap. Anything to prevent frequent read accesses to disk is a good thing!
This parameter was introduced with 2.6 and it's useful for laptops where a lower value will mean it swaps less. This parameter could be used for a distribution's event scripts that will change the value when, for example, the user unplugs their laptop from AC.
The idea is the users's battery life is extended slightly without them realising how.
Because environmental conditions that are unique to each generation of animal cannot be solved by instinct.
This may well be true for some types of ants, but this isn't necessarily true for other creatures. Natural selection can be enough to reprogram many creatures instincts, for each generation if necessary IMO.
If this phone went mass market, 99% of the people wouldn't even know what flash means, let alone try to reflash it. How many Grandma's out there reformat their PC and reinstall their OS?
But what's going to happen when enthusiasts get hold of it? They'll start developing cool, open source applications for the benefit of the masses.
Open source works, not because everyone has an equal say, but because it's based on a meritocratical structure. The people at the top are often deemed the most able and most 'fit' to be there. Participants gain from the system by being rewarded for their worth and ability.
This could extend to other industries, but I think it will only work where entry barriers are low (small monetary costs) and expertise is widely recognised. Wikipedia is another fine example of this.
I made a mistake in my original post by asserting that too strongly. What I mean't was that global variables are sometimes misused and functions (or rather methods) can cause object state to be overly complex, giving the code more 'paths' to follow and so probably more bugs.
In OO, I think the more correct way of giving function clarity is through pre-conditions and post-conditions like in the design by contract methodology.
As an object oriented programmer, I always follow the general rule of having a function always give the same output for the same inputs. That is, you then don't have to worry about the 'state' of an object and you as a result have fewer paths to test and fix. This is why, IMO, global variables aren't such a good thing unless they are constant/rarely change.
This should be common knowledge to a good object oriented programmer, but I wonder how often it's employed in the 'C' discipline.
According to what I've heard (sorry no sources), the moon used to spin, but tidal forces from the Earth has slowed this down over time so that it's (almost) completely fixed. In fact, tidal forces from the moon on to the Earth is slowing it's rotation every so slightly. The result is that the day length is gradually getting longer!
Could tidal forces from the Earth explain this bulge? I would have thought these forces would be big enough to make some impression on the moon and give it a bulge.
I can see China overtaking the US in space exploration within the next decade or so because of all the beurocratic nonesense and hoop jumping going on in West
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Where I come from, we call it 'Tig'
Interesting.. That'll be UHD-DVD then
Here's the real cost
Let's assume 1 UK litre of petrol is 100p which is a peak that it recently reached and stayed at for a couple of weeks at least. With the recent drop at the moment, it's around 85 - 90p.
Then at the current exchange rate
1 GBP = 1.85401 USD, so
1 US Gallon = 1.85401 * 3.7854 litres = $7.02 in the UK
Where did you get this from? Was it just your humble opinion? I don't think anyone can say they know Kim Jong-il and what his true intentions are.
The soviets had a system called "Dead Hand" that was designed to actually destroy the entire planet including themselves. It was probably a system of last resort.
Seriously, this really could allow us to see what happened with the ill fated Beagle 2 lander. I for one am curious.
Yes, Gentoo breaks things all the time if your running on the unstable (~x86 for me). I love to keep up with the latest versions of software and unfortunately whenever I do a world compile every month or so it not only takes forever, but a handful of packages will fail to compile with various errors that I don't understand and then it's time to hit the forums and hope that someone else has the solution.
I've been using Gentoo for over 2 years and been using it exclusively for my Desktop for almost that length of time. It's taken me ages and ages to customize to my liking, but once it's there I don't have to reinstall my system ever again unless I upgrade to a different machine arch. Part of the pain should be accepted as upgrading GCC and glibc isn't exactly a simple thing to do and I don't know any other disto that allows you to upgrade your entire distribution without reinstall over the net.
I agree. I can't see how Gnome can run well on 128MB and I've often read complaints from users that try.
Later Gnome releases are getting faster and there was a big drive in 2.14 to reduce memory usage, but most Win98 users running on old hardware will probably just upgrade to a new machine with XP/Vista.
What doesn't make sense to me is how galaxies nearly 13 Billion light years away are determined to be nearly as old as the Universe. My intuition tells me that light that old would have already passed us by soon after the big bang happened?
The reason is that wiki means you can edit it. With the new rules applied to all protected and semi-protected pages, the encyclopedia would allow everyone to edit every page. As long as anonymous users can edit and view their own edits, the encyclopedia should see MORE growth. The only disadvantage is that not all users will be able to see the latest edits by default.
Now everyone can edit. This hasn't been the case for at least 5 years. So this means MORE wiki
I suppose it depends on what the user is doing, but at the end of the day, swappiness DOES have an impact on battery performance when the disk has to be spun up just to do some swapping and perhaps the default of 60 is a little too high.
A bigger impact on battery performance though would be the
Mod parent up!
People are missing the point here that a lot of physical memory is used for disk cache (pages of data from the disk drive accessed frequently) Just because you don't ever use more than your physical memory, doesn't mean to say you don't need any swap. Anything to prevent frequent read accesses to disk is a good thing!
The idea is the users's battery life is extended slightly without them realising how.
That's what kind of a chance you get if you subscribe
Open source works, not because everyone has an equal say, but because it's based on a meritocratical structure. The people at the top are often deemed the most able and most 'fit' to be there. Participants gain from the system by being rewarded for their worth and ability.
This could extend to other industries, but I think it will only work where entry barriers are low (small monetary costs) and expertise is widely recognised. Wikipedia is another fine example of this.
I made a mistake in my original post by asserting that too strongly. What I mean't was that global variables are sometimes misused and functions (or rather methods) can cause object state to be overly complex, giving the code more 'paths' to follow and so probably more bugs. In OO, I think the more correct way of giving function clarity is through pre-conditions and post-conditions like in the design by contract methodology.
As an object oriented programmer, I always follow the general rule of having a function always give the same output for the same inputs. That is, you then don't have to worry about the 'state' of an object and you as a result have fewer paths to test and fix. This is why, IMO, global variables aren't such a good thing unless they are constant/rarely change.
This should be common knowledge to a good object oriented programmer, but I wonder how often it's employed in the 'C' discipline.
My mistake, I should have realized. But it doesn't help those who really ARE new to Slashdot in any way...
Did I miss something?
According to what I've heard (sorry no sources), the moon used to spin, but tidal forces from the Earth has slowed this down over time so that it's (almost) completely fixed. In fact, tidal forces from the moon on to the Earth is slowing it's rotation every so slightly. The result is that the day length is gradually getting longer!
Could tidal forces from the Earth explain this bulge? I would have thought these forces would be big enough to make some impression on the moon and give it a bulge.
Got to love a good British parody... Age of Umpires :-)
I can see China overtaking the US in space exploration within the next decade or so because of all the beurocratic nonesense and hoop jumping going on in West