...to think that the PC guy looks exactly like a slightly plump Bill Gates, while the Mac guy bears more than a passing resemblence to a younger version of Steve Jobs?
Larger sectors are better when you have larger files, smaller sectors are better if you have lots of tiny files. a 1B file will consume one full sector,
Not always the case. In many "modern" file systems (jfs, ReiserFS, xfs(?), and likely others), small files can be stored directly within the directory structure of the file system itself - eg, as part of the B*-tree that forms the file index. So you'll actually have a number of tiny files together taking up only one disk sector. Obviously that's not possible on older filesystem architectures (ext2/3, FAT, etc) where each inode (or the moral equivalent) points directly at the unique start sector for the file.
Don't know how NTFS works - someone more knowledgeable can chime in here.
"We've had a far bigger explosion than we anticipated," said Dr. Donald Yeomans, a mission scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., which controlled the flight. "It was considerably brighter and there was considerably more matter coming off than I had thought."
Entirely consistent with the prevailing "dirty snowball" view; entirely at odds with the Electric Universe wack jobs' "out-on-a-limb" prediction (that the comet is asteroid-like and the impact would be very small).
The remaining question, of course, is what kind of trumped-up post hoc excuse the nut jobs are going to put forth to explain this away. Doctored photographs promulgated by the Vast Astronomical Conspiracy?
ZipZoomFly is what used to be known as googlegear.com until Google got uncomfortable with that...I like their site and prices.
I've also shopped with good success at ComputerGeeks.
TigerDirect is in my experience Highly Evil and should be avoided at all costs.
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http://takaakikato.jp/2006/05/he-looks-like-otaku- doesnt-he.html
...to think that the PC guy looks exactly like a slightly plump Bill Gates, while the Mac guy bears more than a passing resemblence to a younger version of Steve Jobs?
...is whether it can run in reverse: pump in biodiesel and veggie oil, and get pure alcohol out the other end. Then we'll really have something! :}
Not always the case. In many "modern" file systems (jfs, ReiserFS, xfs(?), and likely others), small files can be stored directly within the directory structure of the file system itself - eg, as part of the B*-tree that forms the file index. So you'll actually have a number of tiny files together taking up only one disk sector. Obviously that's not possible on older filesystem architectures (ext2/3, FAT, etc) where each inode (or the moral equivalent) points directly at the unique start sector for the file.
Don't know how NTFS works - someone more knowledgeable can chime in here.
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/tsg/
It will be called the "Origasmi".
I'll let you know after I make an immodest proposal to my lady friend here.
[ducks]
ObLiterary: in this post-literate world, how many /. out there know the Swiftian basis for the terms "Big Endian" and "Little Endian"?
Entirely consistent with the prevailing "dirty snowball" view; entirely at odds with the Electric Universe wack jobs' "out-on-a-limb" prediction (that the comet is asteroid-like and the impact would be very small).
The remaining question, of course, is what kind of trumped-up post hoc excuse the nut jobs are going to put forth to explain this away. Doctored photographs promulgated by the Vast Astronomical Conspiracy?
ZipZoomFly is what used to be known as googlegear.com until Google got uncomfortable with that...I like their site and prices. I've also shopped with good success at ComputerGeeks. TigerDirect is in my experience Highly Evil and should be avoided at all costs.