You are completely correct, but only because you completely missed the point. Fragmentation occurs anytime you allocate, deallocate, and reallocate blocks of memory (on any media) of unequal sizes. However, delays in reading, which is what I was talking about, are the only reason fragmentation matters. If the time it takes to access a given piece of information is constant without respect to the address of the previously-accessed piece of information, then fragmentation doesn't matter other than for your allocation algorithm (and this is already dealt with by the file system); whereas if the time it takes to access a given piece of information depends on which piece of information you accessed last, then fragmentation matters.
The MTBF question has been asked a dozen other times, and I don't see any answers or know of any to contribute. But as to fragmentation, I would think it will not be an issue. Since there are no moving parts, there should be no waiting time to get from sector 0 to sector 8 billion. Of course, I may be wrong, particularly if there is complex circuitry to route requests to the drive, seeing as there are probably quite a few individual flash memory chips involved in this and addressing that many different chips could require a memory processor (replacing the drive controller circuitry that traditional hard drives have) which would take some time to access a given piece of the drive.
MusicBrainz did a good job for me. I imported all my mp3s into iTunes on my new PowerBook, and then used iEatBrainz (a MusicBrainz front-end that interfaces directly to iTunes to find songs to tag and to tag them in place) to put tags on just over 1,100 untagged mp3s. It missed only about 90 of them, including both incorrect tags and failure to find a tag at all.
MusicBrainz needs better moderation - some inconsistencies did arise (such as capitalization; e.g., "acoustic" vs. "Acoustic" and the capitalization of short words and articles in song titles - "A Day In The Life" vs. "A Day in the Life" and other versions) - but overall it did a fine job. It even corrected me as to certain artists' names.
I agree fully, and actually told my boss today that Sith is "every bit as good as Empire" in recommending he see it. Although I will probably be patient and wait for a special edition trilogy boxed set for the prequels, I will own this one.
I liked it, despite the children in the theater and the mediocre acting. The one scene that really just flat didn't work, though, was when Anakin actually fell to the Dark Side - when he told Palpatine he would do whatever he wanted. The "What have I done?" bit was poorly written, poorly timed, and poorly acted. It nearly ruined the movie for me.
But it didn't. Sith was the best of the prequel trilogy, by a long shot. And it is on par with the original movies. There were other low moments, but face it - Luke was whiny, the Ewoks were obnoxious, and the story had the same number and quality of holes in each trilogy.
Go watch this one in the theater. You can wait for Monster-in-Law to come out on DVD.
Yes, it would be much better for animals to have their population controlled by Chronic Wasting Disease induced by overpopulation and destruction (by humans) of their habitat, rather than controlling the population through conservation techniques such as licensed and regulated hunting, which not only controls the population but also funds the conservation efforts and studies.
Yes, death by overpopulation, malnourishment, and disease is much better for the "innocent" animals than feeding my family after I spend months developing an effective load to cleanly kill them, years target practicing, and weeks tracking the animals in the outdoors to get the perfect shot.
It's a distinction without a difference, if you ask me. I understand the political correctness ramifications of choosing one term over the other, but I don't see how it is wrong to say you got fired because the economy sucks or laid off because you were lazy. Companies will twist the words however it works best for their own ends, I think. But maybe I'm just cynical.;-D
You can simulate the difference with a kitchen knife and a cucumber. First, chop directly downwards with the blade. Then, try slicing it but pulling the knife towards you.
This represents the only use of the word "slice" in your reply. (You neglected to use "slash" even once, and instead used the word "chop" to represent what the original poster meant by "slash/slice".) Note how your definition is different than the original poster's comment that equated "slice" with "slash." Note how I was disputing his inability to separate the two. Note how you have effectively agreed with me, with the sole exception of the "No, he's right." introduction.
Of course he is correct in terms of technique. The problem is that he is criticizing someone's choice of words to describe that technique and utterly failing to choose the correct words, himself. I never disputed that slicing is the correct technique with a sword - the original poster is the one who disputed that by his lack of English proficiency.
Your problem is that you think that "slice" and "slash" have substantially identical definitions. They do not. Slash: "to cut with or as if with rough sweeping strokes"; slice: "to cut with or as if with a knife."
What you did is read the word "slicing" in the article and immediately started writing about the difference between "slicing/slashing" and cutting. At no point do you appear to recognize that the words you equate with each other are not the same. You just wanted to sound pompous, but you are indeed a pompous fraud.
To quote Dogbert, "My sources tell me that you combine arrogance with trivia and try to pass it off as intelligence." (Dilbert, May 17, 1998.)
That's just it. Gang rapes are categorized right along with other, more natural sexual acts that children aren't normally allowed to see in the movie theater. And, while you may not realize this, I assure you that allowing them to see one in American theaters will almost instantaneously lead to allowing them to see the other, because there are enough people who do think that gang rapes are a natural part of a healthy life. It doesn't matter my opinion on them.
Yes, children should be exposed to as much and as deviate sex as possible from as early an age as possible. No child should make it to the age of 7 without having seen at least a dozen gang-rapes on screen.
Yes, I was very surprised to discover that, in the past 8 years, kernel.org has had to expand their server performance and their bandwidth allocation. Why didn't they just keep the T1 and Pentium-66? I guess I will have to RTFA to find out why.
Mod points are not given to anyone who has ever posted a +5 Funny comment or otherwise made anyone laugh. Only those with absolutely no sense of humor are allowed to moderate comments, around here. (And when I get mod points, it's always when I'm hungry, grumpy, or otherwise unwilling or unable to find anything funny.)
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You are completely correct, but only because you completely missed the point. Fragmentation occurs anytime you allocate, deallocate, and reallocate blocks of memory (on any media) of unequal sizes. However, delays in reading, which is what I was talking about, are the only reason fragmentation matters. If the time it takes to access a given piece of information is constant without respect to the address of the previously-accessed piece of information, then fragmentation doesn't matter other than for your allocation algorithm (and this is already dealt with by the file system); whereas if the time it takes to access a given piece of information depends on which piece of information you accessed last, then fragmentation matters.
The MTBF question has been asked a dozen other times, and I don't see any answers or know of any to contribute. But as to fragmentation, I would think it will not be an issue. Since there are no moving parts, there should be no waiting time to get from sector 0 to sector 8 billion. Of course, I may be wrong, particularly if there is complex circuitry to route requests to the drive, seeing as there are probably quite a few individual flash memory chips involved in this and addressing that many different chips could require a memory processor (replacing the drive controller circuitry that traditional hard drives have) which would take some time to access a given piece of the drive.
MusicBrainz did a good job for me. I imported all my mp3s into iTunes on my new PowerBook, and then used iEatBrainz (a MusicBrainz front-end that interfaces directly to iTunes to find songs to tag and to tag them in place) to put tags on just over 1,100 untagged mp3s. It missed only about 90 of them, including both incorrect tags and failure to find a tag at all.
MusicBrainz needs better moderation - some inconsistencies did arise (such as capitalization; e.g., "acoustic" vs. "Acoustic" and the capitalization of short words and articles in song titles - "A Day In The Life" vs. "A Day in the Life" and other versions) - but overall it did a fine job. It even corrected me as to certain artists' names.
Oftentimes, I'll complain about Slashdot dupes. Why can't this be one of those times?
I agree fully, and actually told my boss today that Sith is "every bit as good as Empire" in recommending he see it. Although I will probably be patient and wait for a special edition trilogy boxed set for the prequels, I will own this one.
I liked it, despite the children in the theater and the mediocre acting. The one scene that really just flat didn't work, though, was when Anakin actually fell to the Dark Side - when he told Palpatine he would do whatever he wanted. The "What have I done?" bit was poorly written, poorly timed, and poorly acted. It nearly ruined the movie for me.
But it didn't. Sith was the best of the prequel trilogy, by a long shot. And it is on par with the original movies. There were other low moments, but face it - Luke was whiny, the Ewoks were obnoxious, and the story had the same number and quality of holes in each trilogy.
Go watch this one in the theater. You can wait for Monster-in-Law to come out on DVD.
...and better than two hours of battery life.
That's his point, I think. I know that pro-hunting people are rare on Slashdot, but I think we're also all really sarcastic. ;)
Yes, it would be much better for animals to have their population controlled by Chronic Wasting Disease induced by overpopulation and destruction (by humans) of their habitat, rather than controlling the population through conservation techniques such as licensed and regulated hunting, which not only controls the population but also funds the conservation efforts and studies.
Yes, death by overpopulation, malnourishment, and disease is much better for the "innocent" animals than feeding my family after I spend months developing an effective load to cleanly kill them, years target practicing, and weeks tracking the animals in the outdoors to get the perfect shot.
It's a distinction without a difference, if you ask me. I understand the political correctness ramifications of choosing one term over the other, but I don't see how it is wrong to say you got fired because the economy sucks or laid off because you were lazy. Companies will twist the words however it works best for their own ends, I think. But maybe I'm just cynical. ;-D
You idiot. I can't believe what you're saying. How did I forget that proven fact? :P
You can simulate the difference with a kitchen knife and a cucumber. First, chop directly downwards with the blade. Then, try slicing it but pulling the knife towards you.
This represents the only use of the word "slice" in your reply. (You neglected to use "slash" even once, and instead used the word "chop" to represent what the original poster meant by "slash/slice".) Note how your definition is different than the original poster's comment that equated "slice" with "slash." Note how I was disputing his inability to separate the two. Note how you have effectively agreed with me, with the sole exception of the "No, he's right." introduction.
Of course he is correct in terms of technique. The problem is that he is criticizing someone's choice of words to describe that technique and utterly failing to choose the correct words, himself. I never disputed that slicing is the correct technique with a sword - the original poster is the one who disputed that by his lack of English proficiency.
It's good that you can keep this purely ad hominem rather than discussing anything of substance. Logical discource belongs anywhere but on Slashdot.
How, exactly, is firing someone for economic reasons as opposed to personal reasons an excuse for being politically correct about what you call it?
Your problem is that you think that "slice" and "slash" have substantially identical definitions. They do not. Slash: "to cut with or as if with rough sweeping strokes"; slice: "to cut with or as if with a knife."
What you did is read the word "slicing" in the article and immediately started writing about the difference between "slicing/slashing" and cutting. At no point do you appear to recognize that the words you equate with each other are not the same. You just wanted to sound pompous, but you are indeed a pompous fraud.
To quote Dogbert, "My sources tell me that you combine arrogance with trivia and try to pass it off as intelligence." (Dilbert, May 17, 1998.)
Hey, at least the article didn't say "IBM looses 13,000 jobs."
I think they have to commit a pretty egregious misdemeanor to be sent to the island prison before they can benefit from that program.
That's just it. Gang rapes are categorized right along with other, more natural sexual acts that children aren't normally allowed to see in the movie theater. And, while you may not realize this, I assure you that allowing them to see one in American theaters will almost instantaneously lead to allowing them to see the other, because there are enough people who do think that gang rapes are a natural part of a healthy life. It doesn't matter my opinion on them.
Yes, children should be exposed to as much and as deviate sex as possible from as early an age as possible. No child should make it to the age of 7 without having seen at least a dozen gang-rapes on screen.
Posting anonymously so the warden doesn't find out?
Don't click on that link if you don't want to know everything - the whole script is there.
:P
s/know everything/spend 30 years in a federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison for DMCA violations/
Wow. You can't take a joke, either.
Yes, I was very surprised to discover that, in the past 8 years, kernel.org has had to expand their server performance and their bandwidth allocation. Why didn't they just keep the T1 and Pentium-66? I guess I will have to RTFA to find out why.
Mod points are not given to anyone who has ever posted a +5 Funny comment or otherwise made anyone laugh. Only those with absolutely no sense of humor are allowed to moderate comments, around here. (And when I get mod points, it's always when I'm hungry, grumpy, or otherwise unwilling or unable to find anything funny.)
No, but here's a trick:
/etc/hosts
echo "127.0.0.1 slashdot.org www.slashdot.org" >>