True... but clusters smaller than sectors would probably ruin the performance. Well, that's just something I suppose, I didn't make much thinking about this (let alone testing), so it's just a supposition.
And although this could ruin my point, it still sounds like a bad idea.
Because your wasted space would be (2MB * number_of_files), silly.
Just to give you an example, the directory where I store my digital camera pics has about 7,500 files. The files make 6.61 GB and the used space is 6.63 GB. If the sectors in my HD were 4MB in size, the used space would jump to about 29.63 GB.
When I started my Computer Sciences course at college in 1993, my dad bought me a top-of-line-and-friends-envy-generator 386DX40 with 4 MB of RAM and a whooping 127 MB hard disk.
My sister started her Nutrition course at the same year and we had to share the computer to write our class assignments (Word 2.0, it came in 3 1/2 inch diskettes at that time) and I also had a Turbo Pascal compiler.
Man, that computer could do everything we needed!
But let's just suppose there was not a Computer Sciences student using the computer, just my Nutrition student sister. Still she would only need to type some assignments and articles. That old 386DX40 with the same Word 2.0 could be more than enough for her.
Of course I could have fun with some old games, maybe more fun that these new darn-good-looking-but-dull games of our current days. It got even better when I bought an used Ad Lib soundcard! It had not external speakers, only an internal one, soldered to the board. It got even better when I bought a Multimedia Kit, consisting in a 2X CD-ROM drive and a 16-bit Sound Blaster. Oh, and external speakers. Not amplified, anyway.
My best friend and I used to play Civilization 1 until wee hours of the morning in that computer...
Those are times that never return. Sorry for being nostalgic... *sigh*...
That's right, the server didn't have resources limits. In "the day after", the teacher told us it's because it's supposed to be a "academic environment". Of course this changed in a heartbeat after this episode. And of course the teacher regreted telling us that.
My operating system teacher told us about this one and told us never to do that. Needless to say that a dude wrote, compiled and run this code like 5 minutes after the end of the class... in our main server... pfff...
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Thanks heavens! For a second I thought they would have ruined everything by installing DOS in the grid...
This math seldom works for electronics and computers. I remember when I were at college (about 1995) I used to read that computers should reach 300 MHz by the year 2000. If my memory doesn't fail (well, I'm getting old), by the year 2000 the GHz barrier was broken. 6 years later, my 1-year-old notebook runs at 2GHz and my girlfriend's 6-month-old notebook at 1.5 GHz. And I don't see many desktop for announced that goes much further from 3 GHz.
MORAL: forget first degree equations when you are talking about computers.
The grandparent is really interesting and the parent is really insightful. I agree with both of them. Therefore, why should ATI compare the processing power of this GPU with a Pentium if they aren't made for the same things?
Talking about this, why isn't CD-R called CD-W instead? Something like "CD-Writable", since RW stands for "re-writable".
By the way, here in Spain if you go to a office supply store and ask for a "CD grabable" ("recordable CD" in English), you will get a CD-RW. If you want a CD-R, you should ask just a "CD". Weird, huh?
There is no wax cylinders in France because they can only be played in Edison's Phonograph. Edison pulled his Phonograph from the French market after the French congress said the consumers should be able to play wax cylinders in Gramophones as well (which uses disc-shaped records).
I don't know if you are up to very old games, but I used to have hours of fun with my ex-girlfriend playing Diablo I on Playstation. In the beginning I would build up a stronger character for her (usually the rogue) and then start a new game together. The possibility of starting a new game with a saved character is a pretty good handicap system.
...he didn't say "If they have no bread, then let them eat cake!", that was Maria Antoinette. What Gates really said was "If they can't read well in those small screens $100 laptops have, let them have a decent computer! (A $500-$1000 Origami, maybe?)". He also said "If they can't type and cranck the thing at the same time, let them plug a decent computer in a outlet, which must be avaliable in any house in third world countries". After all, what is $1000 for a third world country child? Is it something that could feed their families for about a year? Oh, yes, it is!
One point Gates seemed to miss here is that the lack of capacity of the machines and their low price is also a way to avoid them to be robbed or sold.
Maybe that's because they use commercial hard disk units to store this data. A 40-Gigabytes hard disk, for an instance, can hold 39,999,500,288 bytes. This is so confusing... what were I talking about again?
"Imperial Units"? And what are meters, kilograms and liters? "Rebel Alliance Units"?
Well, besides the jokes, I must say I got pretty amazed when I went to London last november and noticed that the metric system is pretty much present there. All the products I saw in the supermarkets were measured in grams, kilograms or liters. The (few) termometers were even showing the temperature in degrees C! Not mentioning the road signs measuring distantes in kilometers or meters and speed in kilometers per hour. The only two exception were two old road signs, one showing a distance in yards and the other one showing speed at miles per hour.
Kudos on english people! They turned down the "Dark Side of the Units"!
Legal disclaimer: calling the Imperial Units System "the Dark Side of the Units" is just a Star Wars joke. If you live in a place in a place that uses Imperial/English units, please, no ofense intended
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It will come in a flying car, which was promised for around 2000...
Duke Nuken Forever will come with a holographic interface.
True... but clusters smaller than sectors would probably ruin the performance. Well, that's just something I suppose, I didn't make much thinking about this (let alone testing), so it's just a supposition.
And although this could ruin my point, it still sounds like a bad idea.
Because your wasted space would be (2MB * number_of_files), silly.
Just to give you an example, the directory where I store my digital camera pics has about 7,500 files. The files make 6.61 GB and the used space is 6.63 GB. If the sectors in my HD were 4MB in size, the used space would jump to about 29.63 GB.
Me wouldn't like that...
... welcome our new 4Kbytes sector overlords.
When I started my Computer Sciences course at college in 1993, my dad bought me a top-of-line-and-friends-envy-generator 386DX40 with 4 MB of RAM and a whooping 127 MB hard disk.
My sister started her Nutrition course at the same year and we had to share the computer to write our class assignments (Word 2.0, it came in 3 1/2 inch diskettes at that time) and I also had a Turbo Pascal compiler.
Man, that computer could do everything we needed!
But let's just suppose there was not a Computer Sciences student using the computer, just my Nutrition student sister. Still she would only need to type some assignments and articles. That old 386DX40 with the same Word 2.0 could be more than enough for her.
Of course I could have fun with some old games, maybe more fun that these new darn-good-looking-but-dull games of our current days. It got even better when I bought an used Ad Lib soundcard! It had not external speakers, only an internal one, soldered to the board. It got even better when I bought a Multimedia Kit, consisting in a 2X CD-ROM drive and a 16-bit Sound Blaster. Oh, and external speakers. Not amplified, anyway.
My best friend and I used to play Civilization 1 until wee hours of the morning in that computer...
Those are times that never return. Sorry for being nostalgic... *sigh*...
Maybe Google and Slashdot secretly share the karma database...
That's right, the server didn't have resources limits. In "the day after", the teacher told us it's because it's supposed to be a "academic environment". Of course this changed in a heartbeat after this episode. And of course the teacher regreted telling us that.
I like "while(1) {fork();}" better...
My operating system teacher told us about this one and told us never to do that. Needless to say that a dude wrote, compiled and run this code like 5 minutes after the end of the class... in our main server... pfff...
Thanks heavens! For a second I thought they would have ruined everything by installing DOS in the grid...
However, only those who signed up early (in January and February) to use Google Pages have access to the current beta.
I signed up to it less than a week ago and 15 minutes ago I got an e-mail saying I could already use it. And it's true, I can.
This math seldom works for electronics and computers. I remember when I were at college (about 1995) I used to read that computers should reach 300 MHz by the year 2000. If my memory doesn't fail (well, I'm getting old), by the year 2000 the GHz barrier was broken. 6 years later, my 1-year-old notebook runs at 2GHz and my girlfriend's 6-month-old notebook at 1.5 GHz. And I don't see many desktop for announced that goes much further from 3 GHz.
MORAL: forget first degree equations when you are talking about computers.
The grandparent is really interesting and the parent is really insightful. I agree with both of them. Therefore, why should ATI compare the processing power of this GPU with a Pentium if they aren't made for the same things?
In Soviet Russia, you take care of the robots?
(Sorry to ask, I'm new in these "Soviet Russia" jokes)
Talking about this, why isn't CD-R called CD-W instead? Something like "CD-Writable", since RW stands for "re-writable".
By the way, here in Spain if you go to a office supply store and ask for a "CD grabable" ("recordable CD" in English), you will get a CD-RW. If you want a CD-R, you should ask just a "CD". Weird, huh?
Hmmm... I wonder how many mp3's I can fit onto one of those?
Almost 38 days worth of music in 128kbps MP3 files.
(Sorry people, I'm a math lover, I couldn't help but doing this math when I spotted the question)
There is no wax cylinders in France because they can only be played in Edison's Phonograph. Edison pulled his Phonograph from the French market after the French congress said the consumers should be able to play wax cylinders in Gramophones as well (which uses disc-shaped records).
I don't know if you are up to very old games, but I used to have hours of fun with my ex-girlfriend playing Diablo I on Playstation. In the beginning I would build up a stronger character for her (usually the rogue) and then start a new game together. The possibility of starting a new game with a saved character is a pretty good handicap system.
...he didn't say "If they have no bread, then let them eat cake!", that was Maria Antoinette. What Gates really said was "If they can't read well in those small screens $100 laptops have, let them have a decent computer! (A $500-$1000 Origami, maybe?)". He also said "If they can't type and cranck the thing at the same time, let them plug a decent computer in a outlet, which must be avaliable in any house in third world countries". After all, what is $1000 for a third world country child? Is it something that could feed their families for about a year? Oh, yes, it is!
One point Gates seemed to miss here is that the lack of capacity of the machines and their low price is also a way to avoid them to be robbed or sold.
Talking about mouse, how do you right-click something when you are running Windows XP in a iMac?
Maybe that's because they use commercial hard disk units to store this data. A 40-Gigabytes hard disk, for an instance, can hold 39,999,500,288 bytes. This is so confusing... what were I talking about again?
"Imperial Units"? And what are meters, kilograms and liters? "Rebel Alliance Units"?
Well, besides the jokes, I must say I got pretty amazed when I went to London last november and noticed that the metric system is pretty much present there. All the products I saw in the supermarkets were measured in grams, kilograms or liters. The (few) termometers were even showing the temperature in degrees C! Not mentioning the road signs measuring distantes in kilometers or meters and speed in kilometers per hour. The only two exception were two old road signs, one showing a distance in yards and the other one showing speed at miles per hour.
Kudos on english people! They turned down the "Dark Side of the Units"!
Legal disclaimer: calling the Imperial Units System "the Dark Side of the Units" is just a Star Wars joke. If you live in a place in a place that uses Imperial/English units, please, no ofense intended
Well, you do have a terminal disease. It's called aging.
Once upon a time a fortune cookie told me:
"Life is a sexually-transmitted disease with 100% mortality rate"
Go ahead, rate me redundant if you wish.
Soon the men will put down all trees in the world, and these robots will be driven to extintion due to the destruction of their natural habitat.
Oh, wait... I just RTFA and saw the video, they don't just live in trees.
OH GOD, WE ARE DOOMED!!!
...no new site shall pass unslashdotted.