Now, the 204 year bit sounds impressive, but it isn't like a piece of DNA lasted 204 years without any decay. Instead it was copied repeatedly over that time. If I copied that 4TB hard drive once every 25 years (generation time) onto a brand new drive (assuming that you could keep making them compatible) I don't think that getting the data across 200 years without any bit-flips is really that tall of an order. Sure, technology will change, but that really is a different matter, and I doubt that any commodity computer technology used in the next 200 years will do any worse than what we have today.
Actually, it's more than copying the drive once every 25 years, it's making a copy of data on the drive many times each day -- some where around the 100,000th copy of the drive randomly choose a copy to keep and start the process over again. With that kind of usage on a drive, the failure rate (let alone error rate) will be _much_ higher.
More than having an intellectual wanker-fest on slashdot, how about we let some people know tasering the kid was wrong?
president@ufl.edu (university president)
updinfo@admin.ufl.edu (university police dept) http://www.police.ufl.edu/media/Citizen%20Complaint.JPG (police complaint form)
ag.mccollum@myfloridalegal.com (florida attorney general)
support@johnkerry.com (john kerry's contact email) http://www.trustees.ufl.edu/about/ (trustees of the university of florida)
Just FYI, the implication from the text is that while in the garden, Adam and Eve could eat of the Tree of Life (and consequently never die), but once expelled from the garden, can no longer eat from the tree, and consequently will surely die. So, while eating the fruit of the good/evil tree didn't directly kill them, eating the fruit causes them to be expelled from the garden, cut off from the tree of life, and to die. I think the author of the text would have not written it, had he believed the story conveyed that his God was a liar.
However, I do believe that the author of the text intended the story is as an illustration rather than a historical event.
>> Ball's in your court, online video distributors (namely Apple).
Ball's in your court, online video distributors? NO WAY! Since when can Apple, (or anyone else for that matter) distribute 25-40GB to a home computer? Who has the bandwidth to download a movie for HDTV?--Unless you're going to leave your computer downloading for a month. Distributing HD content over the internet won't be remotely possible until we have fiber to the premesis.
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Now, the 204 year bit sounds impressive, but it isn't like a piece of DNA lasted 204 years without any decay. Instead it was copied repeatedly over that time. If I copied that 4TB hard drive once every 25 years (generation time) onto a brand new drive (assuming that you could keep making them compatible) I don't think that getting the data across 200 years without any bit-flips is really that tall of an order. Sure, technology will change, but that really is a different matter, and I doubt that any commodity computer technology used in the next 200 years will do any worse than what we have today.
Actually, it's more than copying the drive once every 25 years, it's making a copy of data on the drive many times each day -- some where around the 100,000th copy of the drive randomly choose a copy to keep and start the process over again. With that kind of usage on a drive, the failure rate (let alone error rate) will be _much_ higher.
Really, I think you want: (laser_diode.robustness) > (min((laser_diode.robustness),(frequency_doubling_package_of_nonlinear_crystals.robustness)))
Since I had to look it up anyway -- for those as clueless as me, UAV means Unmanned Aerial Vehicle.
Please hand over your geek card. Your privileges have just been revoked.
I'm from Texas, where we know Alaska's not a state, it's a over-sized popsicle.
More than having an intellectual wanker-fest on slashdot, how about we let some people know tasering the kid was wrong?
president@ufl.edu (university president)
updinfo@admin.ufl.edu (university police dept)
http://www.police.ufl.edu/media/Citizen%20Complaint.JPG (police complaint form)
ag.mccollum@myfloridalegal.com (florida attorney general)
support@johnkerry.com (john kerry's contact email)
http://www.trustees.ufl.edu/about/ (trustees of the university of florida)
come on -- the dude's girlfriend was up for doing an engineering project with him. i think he found a winner.
Just FYI, the implication from the text is that while in the garden, Adam and Eve could eat of the Tree of Life (and consequently never die), but once expelled from the garden, can no longer eat from the tree, and consequently will surely die. So, while eating the fruit of the good/evil tree didn't directly kill them, eating the fruit causes them to be expelled from the garden, cut off from the tree of life, and to die. I think the author of the text would have not written it, had he believed the story conveyed that his God was a liar. However, I do believe that the author of the text intended the story is as an illustration rather than a historical event.
>> Ball's in your court, online video distributors (namely Apple). Ball's in your court, online video distributors? NO WAY! Since when can Apple, (or anyone else for that matter) distribute 25-40GB to a home computer? Who has the bandwidth to download a movie for HDTV?--Unless you're going to leave your computer downloading for a month. Distributing HD content over the internet won't be remotely possible until we have fiber to the premesis.
Easy enough to fix, just don't provide any power outlets. Most laptop batteries will be dead in 2 hours, and they'll have to go home.