And yet, any good torrent tracker with a couple thousand active users can do the same thing - for free yet. So why can't a big corporation with thousands of times as many resources as those users do the same thing, especially if they expect you to pay for it? Simple answer: they're stupid.
(Disclaimer: I don't watch TV, nor do I pirate it. I buy the content I want on Blu-Ray or DVD)
The first 8-inch floppy disks held only 79.75 kB (read-only, in 1971). The first 5¼ inch floppies held 87.5kB (in 1976). Even the first 3½ disks only held 280 kB (in 1982). In each case, of course, capacity inflated rapidly over a few years' time, but if you subtract out filesystem metadata, which of course varies with the disk format, each one would easily drop by 5 or 10 percent, putting those first 8-inch disks in the just-over-70kB range.
"And what's with everyone calling processors 'cores' now?"
Simple - it's because "processor" still generally refers to the chip and its packaging as a single device.
Most processors have a number of structures and resources that are shared by some or all of their execution units (such as a processor-wide shared L3 cache versus a single core's dedicated L1 cache). Since an execution unit genrally can't be separated back out from the rest of the processor, but it still mostly functions as an independent unit, it doesn't make sense to call such a unit a "processor". Someone had to come up with a term that describes those execution units, and since they collectively make up the central operating core of the processor, "core" just makes sense. Who came up with that? No clue.
Most of the space between us and this distant galaxy is empty. That which isn't, in this particular case, are contained in a few rather massive regions, enough so that the gravity generated therein acts like a few giant lenses, bending the light from the distant galaxy around it and focusing it in our direction.
Except, they won't. Companies don't give two shits about little details like full mailboxes because they won't see it as affecting their profit margins - they'll just continue to lay blame on whoever they can when a problem arises.
My utility bill has wording on the back to the effect of "Failure to receive your utility bill is your responsibility, not ours", and I can almost guarantee that they'll continue to stand behind those words 125% if something like once-a-week delivery were to be implemented. When your bill ends up in the circular file because your mailbox is full, they'll just ask "Well, why didn't you phone us or come by the office?"
And before it comes up again, forget the idea of going all-online for receiving/paying bills - the folks you owe, especially utilities, just loooooove to charge "convenience" fees (or use 3rd-party entities who do) for paying said bills online.
So no, we need daily delivery (minus Saturday perhaps). Everyone and their dog uses the postal system, so put it back under the government umbrella before it fails, fund them with tax dollars, and cut out the bullshit like the aforementioned 75-years-ahead pension.
This isn't some car company or bank that's teetering on the edge, this is the fucking UNITED STATES POST OFFICE. We kinda need them.
(that last comment isn't directed at anyone in particular)
Surely they are referring to the calibration of the touch surface relative to the display screen. I've seen this being done on video slot machines for example. When in calibration mode, the machine asks the tech to touch a few specific spots on the screen, notes where the tech appeared to actually touch at, and adjusts a few variables in the math it uses so that future users' inputs will register correctly. I've done the same myself on a touch pad for an old computer once or twice.
In other words, any surface that sends discrete position information to the computer has the potential to need such calibration.
All of that said, there's absolutely no excuse for allowing a machine to continue operating if it is registering votes other than those being requested (not that I mind a few extra votes for Obama over rMoney, but that's a different matter).
We have two OCZ Vertex 2 60GB drives here, and aside from them disappearing from BIOS once due to a firmware bug (which we updated to fix), they've behaved flawlessly for about 2 years now.
In the movie, Thornton picks up his report calmly from Diane's desk, looks at it, and asks why she failed him. Her exact quote, in addition to comments about him failing her and being emotionally regressed is, "Tell you something else, whoever did write this doesn't know the first thing about Kurt Vonnegut." Completely calmly, if obviously irritated.
(Followed by Thornton threatening Vonnegut by phone to cancel payment on the check he payed with)
Vonnegut's only appearance in the movie is as himself for a few seconds before the above, when he first shows up at the dorm at Thronton's request and identifies himself politely to Jason. He never flipped anyone off.
The irony of your statement is that, with the advent of this fictional replicator, the baker would already have his new business model laid out in front of him: Bake his bread like usual, "record" it into the replicator, then charge a small fee for customer access to the replicator, in addition to selling the actual bread for those who want that.
Assuming decent rates for the energy and feedstock for the replicator, that means a lower cost of doing business than selling only fresh-cooked bread, which means more money in the baker's pocket. Plus keeping the real bread around (in quantities appropriate to the reduced sales) means the bakery still smells as inviting as it ever did.
I'm not a coder for the game at all - I just wrote a few mods and did some textures as an add-on. So obviously, I rather like the game. Not to mention, the game is free, so there's no DRM to sue over, and the primary author doesn't live anywhere near the US, let alone Texas.
Oh, and I am not a resident of Texas either, nor do I sell anything there or I do any kind of business there, deliberately or not, under any label or name having anything whatsoever to do with any block-type sandbox game.
Good luck suing either of us.
As for why grudge Notch? Simple: I don't like Java (in fact I hate it), my choice of game is open source, and Notch made it plainly clear that he's no longer just "making a living". I don't need any more than that.
And this, folks is why I support open source solutions whenever possible, in this case, Minetest. It is similar to Minecraft (generally based on the same idea), but 100% open source. Coded by Perttu "celeron55" Ahola et.al. For more details, visit the main website: http://minetest.net/
(Disclaimer: I am a mod programmer and texture pack developer for the game)
...or it could be that everyone and their uncle is already using some kind of warp drive, and we're just not interesting enough to visit - or that no one's even thought to take a ride through this part of the galaxy to begin with.
Let's put it this way:
There are 300 billion stars in the Milky Way, but the universe is "only" ~13.4 billion years old, and so a hell of a lot of travel would have to be crammed into a relatively short time, so let's crunch some numbers:
* The Milky Way is about 100,000 light years in diameter and roughly 1000 light years thick on average. That gives a total volume of 7.9 trillion cubic light years, and we occupy about 1. * Given the 300 billion stars that are in the galaxy, that yields an average spacing of 26 light years between stars. * Let's assume that only 1% of those stars are actually worth visiting, and that Sol is in that set. That's 3 billion stars to check out. * Let's assume that that entire set lies within the parts of the galaxy that are fairly dense, and so let's cut the distance between stars to, oh, 5 light years. That's 15 billion light years' worth of travel. * Let's assume that our hypothetical ship can travel at an average of 1000c indefinitely.
That's 15 million years' worth of travel time, assuming the ship travels non-stop, via the shortest possible course between subsequent stars/clusters, only studies them while in transit, and thus maintains an average speed of 1000c.
Increase that time by perhaps 5% to allow for time to actually study each destination.
As Doug Adams so famounsly said (in paraphrase), space is big - mindbogglingly so.
There's a better way - toilet-train the furballs instead. I have two cats whom I, after much hair-pulling, successfully trained to use a regular toilet. It's also a lot cheaper and more sanitary, and stinks less too. One flush and their leavings are dealt with. No litter box to clean also means no more of a risk of diseases than one encounters from regularly cleaning a toilet used only by humans in the first place. Note that the smarter the cat and the more time and patience you can muster, the faster he or she will pick it up.
Look on Amazon for "The Toilet Trained Cat".
(I am not associated with Amazon or the book's author. Just seemed apropos.)
1. A LOT of women over there hate to wear a burkha or otherwise do the whole cover-everything routine. Many are killed without remorse for not doing so.
2. Extremists already *are* attacking American citizens, Muslim ones in particular of course, on American soil, for not complying with Muslim laws. The result has been death on more than one occasion.
As much as I agree with your general stance that we shouldn't be fighting someone else's war, I can't help but feel that these two facts are justification enough.
nonono everyone knows the dinosaurs disappeared long before. It's the unicorns that ceased to exist after Noah's flood, because they were too silly to do anything but play in the rain:-)
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And yet, any good torrent tracker with a couple thousand active users can do the same thing - for free yet. So why can't a big corporation with thousands of times as many resources as those users do the same thing, especially if they expect you to pay for it? Simple answer: they're stupid.
(Disclaimer: I don't watch TV, nor do I pirate it. I buy the content I want on Blu-Ray or DVD)
The first 8-inch floppy disks held only 79.75 kB (read-only, in 1971). The first 5¼ inch floppies held 87.5kB (in 1976). Even the first 3½ disks only held 280 kB (in 1982). In each case, of course, capacity inflated rapidly over a few years' time, but if you subtract out filesystem metadata, which of course varies with the disk format, each one would easily drop by 5 or 10 percent, putting those first 8-inch disks in the just-over-70kB range.
"And what's with everyone calling processors 'cores' now?"
Simple - it's because "processor" still generally refers to the chip and its packaging as a single device.
Most processors have a number of structures and resources that are shared by some or all of their execution units (such as a processor-wide shared L3 cache versus a single core's dedicated L1 cache). Since an execution unit genrally can't be separated back out from the rest of the processor, but it still mostly functions as an independent unit, it doesn't make sense to call such a unit a "processor". Someone had to come up with a term that describes those execution units, and since they collectively make up the central operating core of the processor, "core" just makes sense. Who came up with that? No clue.
Heh, subject says it all.
Also, first post?
It's a robot. You know - like a super-advanced robot. It's probably Japanese. Yeah, it's definitely Japanese.
Strange, I always thought it went "Hey Bubba! Watch THIS!"
Shows how much I know :-)
Most of the space between us and this distant galaxy is empty. That which isn't, in this particular case, are contained in a few rather massive regions, enough so that the gravity generated therein acts like a few giant lenses, bending the light from the distant galaxy around it and focusing it in our direction.
Except, they won't. Companies don't give two shits about little details like full mailboxes because they won't see it as affecting their profit margins - they'll just continue to lay blame on whoever they can when a problem arises.
My utility bill has wording on the back to the effect of "Failure to receive your utility bill is your responsibility, not ours", and I can almost guarantee that they'll continue to stand behind those words 125% if something like once-a-week delivery were to be implemented. When your bill ends up in the circular file because your mailbox is full, they'll just ask "Well, why didn't you phone us or come by the office?"
And before it comes up again, forget the idea of going all-online for receiving/paying bills - the folks you owe, especially utilities, just loooooove to charge "convenience" fees (or use 3rd-party entities who do) for paying said bills online.
So no, we need daily delivery (minus Saturday perhaps). Everyone and their dog uses the postal system, so put it back under the government umbrella before it fails, fund them with tax dollars, and cut out the bullshit like the aforementioned 75-years-ahead pension.
This isn't some car company or bank that's teetering on the edge, this is the fucking UNITED STATES POST OFFICE. We kinda need them.
(that last comment isn't directed at anyone in particular)
obligatory: http://xkcd.com/1015/
Three words: Cut the Military.
Surely they are referring to the calibration of the touch surface relative to the display screen. I've seen this being done on video slot machines for example. When in calibration mode, the machine asks the tech to touch a few specific spots on the screen, notes where the tech appeared to actually touch at, and adjusts a few variables in the math it uses so that future users' inputs will register correctly. I've done the same myself on a touch pad for an old computer once or twice.
In other words, any surface that sends discrete position information to the computer has the potential to need such calibration.
All of that said, there's absolutely no excuse for allowing a machine to continue operating if it is registering votes other than those being requested (not that I mind a few extra votes for Obama over rMoney, but that's a different matter).
Of course. It's the only way to be sure.
We have two OCZ Vertex 2 60GB drives here, and aside from them disappearing from BIOS once due to a firmware bug (which we updated to fix), they've behaved flawlessly for about 2 years now.
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So what you're saying is, it never occurred to him to think of space as the thing that was moving?
Checkoff?? Surely you mean Chekov. You may turn in your geek card.
Incorrect.
(OH G*D someone on the Internet is wrong!)
In the movie, Thornton picks up his report calmly from Diane's desk, looks at it, and asks why she failed him. Her exact quote, in addition to comments about him failing her and being emotionally regressed is, "Tell you something else, whoever did write this doesn't know the first thing about Kurt Vonnegut." Completely calmly, if obviously irritated.
(Followed by Thornton threatening Vonnegut by phone to cancel payment on the check he payed with)
Vonnegut's only appearance in the movie is as himself for a few seconds before the above, when he first shows up at the dorm at Thronton's request and identifies himself politely to Jason. He never flipped anyone off.
The irony of your statement is that, with the advent of this fictional replicator, the baker would already have his new business model laid out in front of him: Bake his bread like usual, "record" it into the replicator, then charge a small fee for customer access to the replicator, in addition to selling the actual bread for those who want that.
Assuming decent rates for the energy and feedstock for the replicator, that means a lower cost of doing business than selling only fresh-cooked bread, which means more money in the baker's pocket. Plus keeping the real bread around (in quantities appropriate to the reduced sales) means the bakery still smells as inviting as it ever did.
I'm not a coder for the game at all - I just wrote a few mods and did some textures as an add-on. So obviously, I rather like the game. Not to mention, the game is free, so there's no DRM to sue over, and the primary author doesn't live anywhere near the US, let alone Texas.
Oh, and I am not a resident of Texas either, nor do I sell anything there or I do any kind of business there, deliberately or not, under any label or name having anything whatsoever to do with any block-type sandbox game.
Good luck suing either of us.
As for why grudge Notch? Simple: I don't like Java (in fact I hate it), my choice of game is open source, and Notch made it plainly clear that he's no longer just "making a living". I don't need any more than that.
To clarify that, I am one of many third-party contributors to the community, not a core developer.
And this, folks is why I support open source solutions whenever possible, in this case, Minetest. It is similar to Minecraft (generally based on the same idea), but 100% open source. Coded by Perttu "celeron55" Ahola et.al. For more details, visit the main website: http://minetest.net/
(Disclaimer: I am a mod programmer and texture pack developer for the game)
...or it could be that everyone and their uncle is already using some kind of warp drive, and we're just not interesting enough to visit - or that no one's even thought to take a ride through this part of the galaxy to begin with.
Let's put it this way:
There are 300 billion stars in the Milky Way, but the universe is "only" ~13.4 billion years old, and so a hell of a lot of travel would have to be crammed into a relatively short time, so let's crunch some numbers:
* The Milky Way is about 100,000 light years in diameter and roughly 1000 light years thick on average. That gives a total volume of 7.9 trillion cubic light years, and we occupy about 1.
* Given the 300 billion stars that are in the galaxy, that yields an average spacing of 26 light years between stars.
* Let's assume that only 1% of those stars are actually worth visiting, and that Sol is in that set. That's 3 billion stars to check out.
* Let's assume that that entire set lies within the parts of the galaxy that are fairly dense, and so let's cut the distance between stars to, oh, 5 light years. That's 15 billion light years' worth of travel.
* Let's assume that our hypothetical ship can travel at an average of 1000c indefinitely.
That's 15 million years' worth of travel time, assuming the ship travels non-stop, via the shortest possible course between subsequent stars/clusters, only studies them while in transit, and thus maintains an average speed of 1000c.
Increase that time by perhaps 5% to allow for time to actually study each destination.
As Doug Adams so famounsly said (in paraphrase), space is big - mindbogglingly so.
There's a better way - toilet-train the furballs instead. I have two cats whom I, after much hair-pulling, successfully trained to use a regular toilet. It's also a lot cheaper and more sanitary, and stinks less too. One flush and their leavings are dealt with. No litter box to clean also means no more of a risk of diseases than one encounters from regularly cleaning a toilet used only by humans in the first place. Note that the smarter the cat and the more time and patience you can muster, the faster he or she will pick it up.
Look on Amazon for "The Toilet Trained Cat".
(I am not associated with Amazon or the book's author. Just seemed apropos.)
1. A LOT of women over there hate to wear a burkha or otherwise do the whole cover-everything routine. Many are killed without remorse for not doing so.
2. Extremists already *are* attacking American citizens, Muslim ones in particular of course, on American soil, for not complying with Muslim laws. The result has been death on more than one occasion.
As much as I agree with your general stance that we shouldn't be fighting someone else's war, I can't help but feel that these two facts are justification enough.
nonono everyone knows the dinosaurs disappeared long before. It's the unicorns that ceased to exist after Noah's flood, because they were too silly to do anything but play in the rain :-)
(with apologies to The Irish Rovers)