...an executive at a company suggested that he (and his competetors) lower prices in order to entice more consumers to purchase his product over the opposing standard?
Scandalous! Criminal charges should be filed immediately!
It's un-American, I tells ya!
...they have a technique to make a single walled carbon nanotube of arbitrary length.
I mean, I'm sure this is important, but I just want to hear that headline!
Bad idea!
Distracting the writing talent from one show is not a good thing, plus prequels never work out well. If they have different talent, that may be just as bad.
Sure, my HTPC is used for media, but it's also used to run emulated games. With two wireless gamepads (logitech knockoffs of the PS2 pad), whenever my buddies come over, it becomes the center of attention, above any other activity planned for the night.
Oh, I forgot, we're not supposed to interact socially, just vegitate and absorb what the content providers feed us.
Sorry to reply to my own post, but I'd like to add:
TFA makes it sound like the engineers on the comittee made this analysis and concluded that 4k sectors WERE in most cases more efficient.
But really...think about this: if each sector has overhead, then any file over 512 bytes will have less overhead, and you'll effectively get more space in most cases.
What percentage YOUR files are less than 4k?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_standard
note the last line of the third paragraph:
"The gold standard is no longer used in any nation, having been replaced completely by fiat currency."
"Sweden abandoned the gold standard in 1929, the US in 1933, and other nations were, to one degree or another, forced off the gold standard."
So, in summary:
"1933 called, and they want to redeem their dollars."
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...an executive at a company suggested that he (and his competetors) lower prices in order to entice more consumers to purchase his product over the opposing standard? Scandalous! Criminal charges should be filed immediately! It's un-American, I tells ya!
...they have a technique to make a single walled carbon nanotube of arbitrary length. I mean, I'm sure this is important, but I just want to hear that headline!
Bad idea! Distracting the writing talent from one show is not a good thing, plus prequels never work out well. If they have different talent, that may be just as bad.
Sure, my HTPC is used for media, but it's also used to run emulated games. With two wireless gamepads (logitech knockoffs of the PS2 pad), whenever my buddies come over, it becomes the center of attention, above any other activity planned for the night. Oh, I forgot, we're not supposed to interact socially, just vegitate and absorb what the content providers feed us.
Don't you think that the large # of sectors in the middle of a file outweighs the one at the end?
Sorry to reply to my own post, but I'd like to add: TFA makes it sound like the engineers on the comittee made this analysis and concluded that 4k sectors WERE in most cases more efficient.
But really...think about this: if each sector has overhead, then any file over 512 bytes will have less overhead, and you'll effectively get more space in most cases. What percentage YOUR files are less than 4k?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_standard note the last line of the third paragraph: "The gold standard is no longer used in any nation, having been replaced completely by fiat currency." "Sweden abandoned the gold standard in 1929, the US in 1933, and other nations were, to one degree or another, forced off the gold standard." So, in summary: "1933 called, and they want to redeem their dollars."