Since that many lines = approx. 125,000 pages, which = approx. 0.0175 terabytes
and "approx. 0.0175 terabytes" == approx 18 GB which explains why the kernel source's tarball weighs 48 MB. Yup, if you wanted to know how big the kernel source is you just had to look for it;-).
Besides, I really wonder how you got to that figure, considered how code has little in common with classically formatted text anyways. Not to mention how 125,000 pages == 18 GB, I mean do you have 150,000 characters per page (2,000 lines per page?)?
Wow, reading the Wikipedia article I kindly pointed you to in between two insults isn't your strong point is it? What you're talking about is NOT RAID 1 (sounds more like RAID 10 depending on the relationship between your pairs of RAID 1 couples). You can criticise nested RAID levels all you want, but don't pick one and call it RAID 1 when it's not.
This song and the topic of geoengineering reminds me of the stories I heard a long time ago (too long ago to remember precisely) about how we accidentally brought undesirable species of fauna and flora to newly discovered islands and how by introducing yet other species to combat them we finally ended with a situation out of control.
If you've got 4x1TB drives, you can have a 2TB RAID1 config
No you don't, you blithering twit. That's just not RAID 1 you're talking about, that's something else, like RAID 0+1/1+0. You cannot have a 2 TB RAID 1 array with 1 TB disks, only a 1 TB array. Do some reading and shut the fuck up.
Oh, and while we're at it, there's a space between numbers and their units (it's "1 TB" not "1TB") and it's "RAID 1" not "RAID1".
Wait wait, your RAID 6 vs RAID 1 claim, that's bullshit. Of course RAID 6 can survive the loss of any two disks, it requires you to have at least 4 of them! If you have a RAID 1 array of 4 disks then you can lose any 3 disks. RAID 1 is the best thing from a data integrity perspective, because you can lose any disk in your array but one. It's just awfully inefficient space and performance wise, well, except for reading, then it's great.
Which is why I only run Windows, so this evil command cannot be run. Problem solved!
By that same logic can we also say that you're kidding yourself to think you're safe if you're using anything short of a nested RAID spread across 3 different locations?
Nobody talked about government cover-ups. There's no way to explain certain military UFO reports as human activity, mainly considered that some of these date from over 60 years ago and that no such technology could stay under the wraps for that long.
But yeah, it's easy to dismiss the whole thing and invoke logical "de-fallacy-ficators" when all you have is a very blurry and distant vision of the whole issue. Everything looks simple provided you stand sufficiently far away.
Which is why they send us all the UFOs. I know that serious people like to dismiss UFO reports because of how over the decades we turned the whole topic into ridicule, and the masses of loonies interested in the topic didn't help, but you have to remember that lots of very well documented UFO events reported by military personel and pilots are far from explained by anything we know.
You can scoff off the whole UFO thing but you can't take a precise case (provided it's a good one of course) and explain the recorded flight paths and phenomena.
That's what strikes me regarding the SETI approach vs UFOlogy, we look as hard as we can hundreds of light years away, yet we can't be bothered to take a closer look at what happens in our own atmosphere. I'm not implying that any recorded UFO event is extraterrestrial in origin, but in many cases you have to consider this possibility by an absolute lack of alternative explanations. No matter what I think it's worth a better scientific examination of the whole thing. But unfortunately the scientific community devotes more time and energy to what it considers safe research, which is why we spend so much time in the cul-de-sac that is string theory while investing very little in seemingly more risky possibilities (the Garrett Lisi example springs to mind).
Last time I checked, accelerometer-based position tracking alone didn't work too well as speeds become offset more and more over time, that is as errors accumulate your cursor would start to move even when the mouse isn't moving. However I guess that coupled with a more traditional tracking to add more precision to quick movements, it could be a great thing!
I had no idea a tampon could be use to measure the wind. Great idea though, it's light, large so it'll react to the least variation in wind and hangs from a string.
Why bother with a monkey though. The main desirable thing about a monkey is its brain, so if you're only interested in the body.. you might as well use something more powerful, like a tiger, or a shark.. and possibly mount a weapon on them...
Because, at least Apple goes at great lengths to hype their new products. You won't report on the latest Lenovo notebook because their press release would be incredibly flat. Steve Jobs just knows how to make the most mundane upgrades sound exciting and newsworthy.
By that standard any site with a search feature is a search engine. A search engine is really something that provides search results from other sites, not its own site.
No? Speaking of which, I have this site I wanna go to, I know its name but I forgot the address. Does anyone of you know how to go about finding that site with only its name?
Ah, those cosmic rays! A few years ago I found how to use a computer to attract them. I don't want to get too technical, but that involved dereferencing pointers. Then I'd see more cosmic rays hit the shit out of the machine than ever!
I'm currently working on a patent detailing how to how to attract cosmic rays away from a device to protect by placing computers all around and making them run the cosmic-ray attracting code.
When I was like 5 and that I was bored while travelling in car I would stare at the Sun for minutes, until the sun would appear as a sort of dancing ying yang sign with red and light yellow in the place of black and white (next time your kids are bored in the car and asking if you're there yet tell em to shut up and to stare at the Sun, cause it's fun). I now have a pretty fucked up eyesight, but that's undoubtedly unrelated.
these machines are showing they we're merely a clock cycle away from true AI.
No, you fucking retard. That's like saying that because you can mistake a Real Doll for a woman we invented truly alive robotic women.
These days when I read a summary on Slashdot discussing drivel about strong AI I just move on and try to act like I didn't read anything. I know strong AI is a nerd's wet dream like teleportation or time travel but people need to stop acting like it's within reach.
Besides, yeah, whoa, you fooled someone into thinking they were chatting with a teenage girl, what a feat! "hey. sup? nuthin, bored. u? lol. k. brb. g2g ttyl!" That SO makes us close to having sentient machines. Why do we still even care about the Turing Test? Anyone knows that it's completely unrelated to strong AI.
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Since that many lines = approx. 125,000 pages, which = approx. 0.0175 terabytes
and "approx. 0.0175 terabytes" == approx 18 GB which explains why the kernel source's tarball weighs 48 MB. Yup, if you wanted to know how big the kernel source is you just had to look for it ;-).
Besides, I really wonder how you got to that figure, considered how code has little in common with classically formatted text anyways. Not to mention how 125,000 pages == 18 GB, I mean do you have 150,000 characters per page (2,000 lines per page?)?
Wow, reading the Wikipedia article I kindly pointed you to in between two insults isn't your strong point is it? What you're talking about is NOT RAID 1 (sounds more like RAID 10 depending on the relationship between your pairs of RAID 1 couples). You can criticise nested RAID levels all you want, but don't pick one and call it RAID 1 when it's not.
Imbecile.
This song and the topic of geoengineering reminds me of the stories I heard a long time ago (too long ago to remember precisely) about how we accidentally brought undesirable species of fauna and flora to newly discovered islands and how by introducing yet other species to combat them we finally ended with a situation out of control.
If you've got 4x1TB drives, you can have a 2TB RAID1 config
No you don't, you blithering twit. That's just not RAID 1 you're talking about, that's something else, like RAID 0+1/1+0. You cannot have a 2 TB RAID 1 array with 1 TB disks, only a 1 TB array. Do some reading and shut the fuck up.
Oh, and while we're at it, there's a space between numbers and their units (it's "1 TB" not "1TB") and it's "RAID 1" not "RAID1".
Wait wait, your RAID 6 vs RAID 1 claim, that's bullshit. Of course RAID 6 can survive the loss of any two disks, it requires you to have at least 4 of them! If you have a RAID 1 array of 4 disks then you can lose any 3 disks. RAID 1 is the best thing from a data integrity perspective, because you can lose any disk in your array but one. It's just awfully inefficient space and performance wise, well, except for reading, then it's great.
Which is why I only run Windows, so this evil command cannot be run. Problem solved!
By that same logic can we also say that you're kidding yourself to think you're safe if you're using anything short of a nested RAID spread across 3 different locations?
Wait wait I don't get this, what happens to be the big flying thing after it's done delivering? Where does it go and what does it do?
Nobody talked about government cover-ups. There's no way to explain certain military UFO reports as human activity, mainly considered that some of these date from over 60 years ago and that no such technology could stay under the wraps for that long.
But yeah, it's easy to dismiss the whole thing and invoke logical "de-fallacy-ficators" when all you have is a very blurry and distant vision of the whole issue. Everything looks simple provided you stand sufficiently far away.
Which is why they send us all the UFOs. I know that serious people like to dismiss UFO reports because of how over the decades we turned the whole topic into ridicule, and the masses of loonies interested in the topic didn't help, but you have to remember that lots of very well documented UFO events reported by military personel and pilots are far from explained by anything we know.
You can scoff off the whole UFO thing but you can't take a precise case (provided it's a good one of course) and explain the recorded flight paths and phenomena.
That's what strikes me regarding the SETI approach vs UFOlogy, we look as hard as we can hundreds of light years away, yet we can't be bothered to take a closer look at what happens in our own atmosphere. I'm not implying that any recorded UFO event is extraterrestrial in origin, but in many cases you have to consider this possibility by an absolute lack of alternative explanations. No matter what I think it's worth a better scientific examination of the whole thing. But unfortunately the scientific community devotes more time and energy to what it considers safe research, which is why we spend so much time in the cul-de-sac that is string theory while investing very little in seemingly more risky possibilities (the Garrett Lisi example springs to mind).
Crap crap crap and an extra slice of triple crap, I meant their not there... Damnit, the things tiredness makes you type..
Is it me or is there "S3FotoPro Enhancement" in TFA looks like nothing different than mere contrast adjustment?
Last time I checked, accelerometer-based position tracking alone didn't work too well as speeds become offset more and more over time, that is as errors accumulate your cursor would start to move even when the mouse isn't moving. However I guess that coupled with a more traditional tracking to add more precision to quick movements, it could be a great thing!
I had no idea a tampon could be use to measure the wind. Great idea though, it's light, large so it'll react to the least variation in wind and hangs from a string.
Except that I thought the NT version of Windows 7 was 6.1?
I thought people on Slashdot would know better..
I'm intrigued, why does Google Calculator not agree?
Why bother with a monkey though. The main desirable thing about a monkey is its brain, so if you're only interested in the body.. you might as well use something more powerful, like a tiger, or a shark.. and possibly mount a weapon on them...
Is it me or do I smell a meme somewhere nearby?
no one works with complex numbers, for complex numbers don't exist: they're all imaginary.
Except the part of them that's real...
Because, at least Apple goes at great lengths to hype their new products. You won't report on the latest Lenovo notebook because their press release would be incredibly flat. Steve Jobs just knows how to make the most mundane upgrades sound exciting and newsworthy.
My sister just bought a VAIO and she was telling me how awesomely glossy the reflective screen was... I guess people just love shiny things...
By that standard any site with a search feature is a search engine. A search engine is really something that provides search results from other sites, not its own site.
Dont people google any more?
No? Speaking of which, I have this site I wanna go to, I know its name but I forgot the address. Does anyone of you know how to go about finding that site with only its name?
Ah, those cosmic rays! A few years ago I found how to use a computer to attract them. I don't want to get too technical, but that involved dereferencing pointers. Then I'd see more cosmic rays hit the shit out of the machine than ever!
I'm currently working on a patent detailing how to how to attract cosmic rays away from a device to protect by placing computers all around and making them run the cosmic-ray attracting code.
When I was like 5 and that I was bored while travelling in car I would stare at the Sun for minutes, until the sun would appear as a sort of dancing ying yang sign with red and light yellow in the place of black and white (next time your kids are bored in the car and asking if you're there yet tell em to shut up and to stare at the Sun, cause it's fun). I now have a pretty fucked up eyesight, but that's undoubtedly unrelated.
All my niggaz love the adventures of Robbin' Hood, cause it ain't all good
these machines are showing they we're merely a clock cycle away from true AI.
No, you fucking retard. That's like saying that because you can mistake a Real Doll for a woman we invented truly alive robotic women.
These days when I read a summary on Slashdot discussing drivel about strong AI I just move on and try to act like I didn't read anything. I know strong AI is a nerd's wet dream like teleportation or time travel but people need to stop acting like it's within reach.
Besides, yeah, whoa, you fooled someone into thinking they were chatting with a teenage girl, what a feat! "hey. sup? nuthin, bored. u? lol. k. brb. g2g ttyl!" That SO makes us close to having sentient machines. Why do we still even care about the Turing Test? Anyone knows that it's completely unrelated to strong AI.
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