If you look at the lifespan of an SSD just using the limited write-cycle aspect is a function of how many physical blocks you have * number of write-cycles (if you have a proper wearlevelling algorithm that swaps writes from most used block to the least used ones).
From what I've read physical block size usually are in the range 16 kbyte - 256 kbyte. Let's assume a low 100000 cycles, a highish 256 kilobyte blocksize on a 256 GB drive giving you 1 million physical blocks. If you use that to estimate the number of writes/second you can use 24/7 over a 10 year period you get 10^10 writes per year which gives somewhat over 300 writes/second. Sounds acceptable to me and I'm guessing my estimate is on the conservative side.
Actually, if it's smaller it can propably withstand the ocean forces more easily in most cases since there will be less chance of the forces finding something in the construction that will provide leverage. Just take a pencil hold it with your fingertips at the end and snap it off, it should be pretty easy for most people. Then try doing the same thing to an inch long pencil stump.
And with a smaller boat you can easily build an almost unsinkable craft if you use a sandwich-type hull filled with enough floatation material so that even if the hull is completly waterfilled the boat will not sink. This was what Sven Yrvind used in some of his constructions ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sven_Yrvind )
I don't think there's any reason to believe that even swap would become an issue unless the drive has an extremely bad wearlevelling system. Why shouldn't any decent wearlevelling keep track of block use and swap heavily used blocks with those that have a read-only characteristic. With a wanted lifespan of 10 years the number of writes per year you'll get should be 10000 * number of blocks on the drive (using the conservative 100 000 write cycle limit).
With a 64 gigabyte drive with a block size of 256 kilobytes (which sounds on the high side to me, sizes are usually from 16 kilobytes to 256 kilobytes from what I've read) you get 80 of those block writes per second, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year for 10 years before you start crossing the write limit. Make a drive with 128 kilobyte block size and you get the double etc.
In Sweden you can bring what ever you want into court, there are no rules which stipulate the value of different types of evidence. The court makes an independent review of as what has been proved and not proved in each case. Obviously having a conflict of interest when it comes to evidentiary issues will weaken the prosecutors case.
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And besides, Ada is really French. [why did GNU make an ada compiler??????????????]
Actually. GNAT is the result of the US Airforce forking over $3 million to New York University and apparently part of that contract was that the copyright would be assigned to FSF.
It's no really "gratis". There just exists a quid pro quo different from money, namely: you must open source your project. So you're not discriminating against any party since it's up to them to choose what kind of remuneration the prefer to deal with.
When will the point be reached when the US patent system becomes so encumbered for real inventors that the US will become a medium-sized (no, not small by any measure) backyard for US patent specialists? If the US patent system keeps diverging from the rest of the world companies and inventors outside the US will certainly have an edge on anything someone in the US wants to bring to the much larger global market.
No magic. They estimate that the market size is 15000 people per year. They never said they would fly 15000 people per year. Most likely the 10 planes/year is a constraint imposed either by manufacturing or available money.
The number of limited write cycles is not a problem on flash SSD because they've been designed to use wear levelling. There are several ways to implement this but one example would be to just keep track of the number of writes to each physical block on the drive. When a certain number of writes is reached on a block the drive swaps the that block gets swapped with one of the least used ones. This of course occurs on a drive level so the user never notices it. So you get pretty much an uniform amount of wear to all physical blocks.
So the number of writes to a flash drive with good wear levelling is approximatly writecycle-limit*the-number-of-physical-blocks
Guess I'll answer this question again: it can't be done. The value of the common stock has nothing to do with how much it will cost to take over the company since they have had a so called "poison pill"-plan in place for years exactly for that reason. It's all in the hands of the board of directors.
If you take a look at their 10-K you'll see the following under "Risk Factors"):
We have adopted a stockholder rights plan. The power given to the Board of Directors by the stockholder rights plan may make it more difficult for a change of control of our company to occur or for our company to be acquired if the acquisition is opposed by our Board of Directors.
And the following from the 10-K clearly illustrates exactly how little control the common stock owners have over the company:
Our Board of Directors currently has the right, with respect to the 5,000,000 shares of our preferred stock, to authorize the issuance of one or more additional series of our preferred stock with such voting, dividend and other rights as our directors determine. The Board of Directors can designate new series of preferred stock without the approval of the holders of our common stock. The rights of holders of our common stock may be adversely affected by the rights of any holders of additional shares of preferred stock that may be issued in the future, including without limitation, further dilution of the equity ownership percentage of our holders of common stock and their voting power if we issue preferred stock with voting rights. Additionally, the issuance of preferred stock could make it more difficult for a third party to acquire a majority of our outstanding voting stock.
To play that kind of hardball they would have to shut down their EU divisions since the boardmembers there certainly are within legal reach. You can bet that the persons on the board of those divisions wouldn't want to take a personal legal risk for Microsoft by disobeying local laws. And if Microsoft would pull out there would certainly be a stockholder lawsuit wondering why they just dumped 25% of their market. Add to that there would be worldwide distrust regarding Microsoft - the question would be "can we trust Microsoft not to do the same thing here as in the EU or should we buy from someone else"
AFAIK that's because in U.S. criminal cases the defendant has the right to a jury trial. Changning the jurys acquittal to a guilty verdict would nullify that right.
Not every day or time, it all comes down to in which environment it has to survive. And we have examples of tool-compatible appendages in aquatic life here on earth: the octopus that can open plastic bottles http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfRqYjv9QgA. And then there are other aqautic life that seems to do very well without fins such as crustaceans.
For at least a decade if not decades. It's best way to secure compromising documentation when there's more than two parties or several locations involved. One tip-off might throw parts or the whole case and with todays communications it's easily done. They're usually called "dawn raids".
From what I've read I think that it's often a tip-off that starts the investigation, then they investigate that company which quite often is helpful and turns on the partners because that will lessen the fines from the commission.
Except that the Xbox and Xbox 360 has been major economic sinkholes. From 2002 to 2004 the then Home and Entertainment Division made an accumulated loss for 3.5 billion dollars. From 2005 to 2007 the new Entertainment and Devices division made an accumalted loss of 3.7 billion dollars. So over those 6 years they lost 7.2 billion dollars. Imagine how hard it will to make that money back (plus the lost interest on it) from a division that has a 6 billion revenue per year and never has shown a profit.
Microsoft has tried several directions when it comes to break into new markets but let's face it, they haven't done a very good job of it. Their money comes from the Server and Tools Division and the Business Division (Office etc.). And I don't think it's going to change... perhaps because they aren't used to competing on merits alone.
I belive you are correct with the exception of using their market capitalisation as a benchmark since SCOX has a "stockholder rights plan" (a.k.a "poison pill") that basically allows the directors to set their price should anyone actually want to take over the whole company. From SCOX last years 10-K (under "Risk Factors):
We have adopted a stockholder rights plan. The power given to the Board of Directors by the stockholder rights plan may make it more difficult for a change of control of our company to occur or for our company to be acquired if the acquisition is opposed by our Board of Directors.
The board of directors are also allowed to play very fast and loose when it comes to issue new preferred stock:
Our Board of Directors currently has the right, with respect to the 5,000,000 shares of our preferred stock, to authorize the issuance of one or more additional series of our preferred stock with such voting, dividend and other rights as our directors determine. The Board of Directors can designate new series of preferred stock without the approval of the holders of our common stock. The rights of holders of our common stock may be adversely affected by the rights of any holders of additional shares of preferred stock that may be issued in the future, including without limitation, further dilution of the equity ownership percentage of our holders of common stock and their voting power if we issue preferred stock with voting rights. Additionally, the issuance of preferred stock could make it more difficult for a third party to acquire a majority of our outstanding voting stock.
(bold is my added emphasis)
The directors can pretty much dilute the value and rights of the common stock in any way they wish. So the value of the common stock does not mirror a take-over cost.
The 2003 fine was paid during 2004 (http://www.news.com/2100-1014_3-5255715.html). The other additional fines most likely have been as well since Microsoft does have a business presence in Europe via Microsoft EMEA located in Ireland I belive (EMEA stands for Europe, Middle-East, Africa). Should the boardmembers refuse to pay then that would land them in court and result in possible personal punishments. No sane business professional would do that no matter how many chairs are thrown on the other side of the atlantic.
I beg to differ. Having the budget or budget proposal available in an electronic format will allow interested parties to analyse the content in a more effective manner. And interested parties aren't just politically entities with "printing assitants" but organisations and persons trying to influence the agenda. Some might see this as a burden to political executives but I do belive that in the end that a widely disseminated budget information is better than a set of papers that only those who have access to the economical means to pre-process can use.
I don't think it would work to well in crowded downtown areas either. Imagine a mix of driverless and regular cars. The driverless cars will have to follow a, let's call it, fully legal driving plan. That means not taking chances and allways err on the safe side but that makes them vulnerable to "bullying" from regular drivers that can force the driverless car to yield. They would risk to become more or less a second-class citizen in that traffic. That type of vulnerability would me much smaller outside city traffic.
But I do agree fully with you that legal/insurance-problem might be the biggest dealbreaker.
I think it will raise the price but perhaps not all the way to $40. Boxes should be very inexpensive, here in Sweden you can get a basic digital box with analog out for less than $50 without any subsidies at all. So I think the market will be skewed by the major producers that will make huge advertising campaigns with some unverifiable vague claims about what a quality product their box is. And get the money back on price hikes on the boxes since the subsidies makes the customers a lot let interested in price differences.
You do know that NOVA is a popular science program? Popular as in intended for the the general public. It's not a science article just meant for people with a decent scientific background. In this case I think it's perfectly ok to include temperature in F and they even started with Kelvin first. Yeah, it might have ruined it for you (seriously, you might want to tune down your sensitivity a bit) but it also made it a lot more accessible to the general public.
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If you look at the lifespan of an SSD just using the limited write-cycle aspect is a function of how many physical blocks you have * number of write-cycles (if you have a proper wearlevelling algorithm that swaps writes from most used block to the least used ones).
From what I've read physical block size usually are in the range 16 kbyte - 256 kbyte. Let's assume a low 100000 cycles, a highish 256 kilobyte blocksize on a 256 GB drive giving you 1 million physical blocks. If you use that to estimate the number of writes/second you can use 24/7 over a 10 year period you get 10^10 writes per year which gives somewhat over 300 writes/second. Sounds acceptable to me and I'm guessing my estimate is on the conservative side.
We learn something every day. I learned that Jung had a term called synchronicity.
You get to learn that synchronicity also means "the quality or fact of being synchronous".
Merriam-Webster: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Synchronicity
Bartleby: http://www.bartleby.com/61/42/S0964250.html
Actually, if it's smaller it can propably withstand the ocean forces more easily in most cases since there will be less chance of the forces finding something in the construction that will provide leverage. Just take a pencil hold it with your fingertips at the end and snap it off, it should be pretty easy for most people. Then try doing the same thing to an inch long pencil stump.
And with a smaller boat you can easily build an almost unsinkable craft if you use a sandwich-type hull filled with enough floatation material so that even if the hull is completly waterfilled the boat will not sink. This was what Sven Yrvind used in some of his constructions ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sven_Yrvind )
I don't think there's any reason to believe that even swap would become an issue unless the drive has an extremely bad wearlevelling system. Why shouldn't any decent wearlevelling keep track of block use and swap heavily used blocks with those that have a read-only characteristic. With a wanted lifespan of 10 years the number of writes per year you'll get should be 10000 * number of blocks on the drive (using the conservative 100 000 write cycle limit).
With a 64 gigabyte drive with a block size of 256 kilobytes (which sounds on the high side to me, sizes are usually from 16 kilobytes to 256 kilobytes from what I've read) you get 80 of those block writes per second, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year for 10 years before you start crossing the write limit. Make a drive with 128 kilobyte block size and you get the double etc.
In Sweden you can bring what ever you want into court, there are no rules which stipulate the value of different types of evidence. The court makes an independent review of as what has been proved and not proved in each case. Obviously having a conflict of interest when it comes to evidentiary issues will weaken the prosecutors case.
For those who do read swedish: http://ec.europa.eu/civiljustice/evidence/evidence_swe_sv.htm
Search for "fri bevisprövning".
Source:http://www.oss-in-atm.info/20051207/09-gasperoni.php
It's no really "gratis". There just exists a quid pro quo different from money, namely: you must open source your project. So you're not discriminating against any party since it's up to them to choose what kind of remuneration the prefer to deal with.
When will the point be reached when the US patent system becomes so encumbered for real inventors that the US will become a medium-sized (no, not small by any measure) backyard for US patent specialists? If the US patent system keeps diverging from the rest of the world companies and inventors outside the US will certainly have an edge on anything someone in the US wants to bring to the much larger global market.
No magic. They estimate that the market size is 15000 people per year. They never said they would fly 15000 people per year. Most likely the 10 planes/year is a constraint imposed either by manufacturing or available money.
The number of limited write cycles is not a problem on flash SSD because they've been designed to use wear levelling. There are several ways to implement this but one example would be to just keep track of the number of writes to each physical block on the drive. When a certain number of writes is reached on a block the drive swaps the that block gets swapped with one of the least used ones. This of course occurs on a drive level so the user never notices it. So you get pretty much an uniform amount of wear to all physical blocks.
So the number of writes to a flash drive with good wear levelling is approximatly writecycle-limit*the-number-of-physical-blocks
Actually... 6 x 9 is 42. That is, if you use base 13 instead of base 10.
So as soon as anyone acquires anywhere close to enough stock to make a voting difference the board of directors will just issue more voting stock which they will control. Source:http://yahoo.brand.edgar-online.com/fetchFilingFrameset.aspx?dcn=0000891020-07-000020&Type=HTML
To play that kind of hardball they would have to shut down their EU divisions since the boardmembers there certainly are within legal reach. You can bet that the persons on the board of those divisions wouldn't want to take a personal legal risk for Microsoft by disobeying local laws. And if Microsoft would pull out there would certainly be a stockholder lawsuit wondering why they just dumped 25% of their market. Add to that there would be worldwide distrust regarding Microsoft - the question would be "can we trust Microsoft not to do the same thing here as in the EU or should we buy from someone else"
AFAIK that's because in U.S. criminal cases the defendant has the right to a jury trial. Changning the jurys acquittal to a guilty verdict would nullify that right.
Not every day or time, it all comes down to in which environment it has to survive. And we have examples of tool-compatible appendages in aquatic life here on earth: the octopus that can open plastic bottles http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfRqYjv9QgA. And then there are other aqautic life that seems to do very well without fins such as crustaceans.
For at least a decade if not decades. It's best way to secure compromising documentation when there's more than two parties or several locations involved. One tip-off might throw parts or the whole case and with todays communications it's easily done. They're usually called "dawn raids".
From what I've read I think that it's often a tip-off that starts the investigation, then they investigate that company which quite often is helpful and turns on the partners because that will lessen the fines from the commission.
Except that the Xbox and Xbox 360 has been major economic sinkholes. From 2002 to 2004 the then Home and Entertainment Division made an accumulated loss for 3.5 billion dollars. From 2005 to 2007 the new Entertainment and Devices division made an accumalted loss of 3.7 billion dollars. So over those 6 years they lost 7.2 billion dollars. Imagine how hard it will to make that money back (plus the lost interest on it) from a division that has a 6 billion revenue per year and never has shown a profit.
Microsoft has tried several directions when it comes to break into new markets but let's face it, they haven't done a very good job of it. Their money comes from the Server and Tools Division and the Business Division (Office etc.). And I don't think it's going to change... perhaps because they aren't used to competing on merits alone.
2004 10-K (has the 2002 to 2004 numbers) http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/789019/000119312504150689/d10k.htm 2007 10-K (has the 2005 to 2007 numbers) http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/financials/drawFiling.asp?docKey=136-000119312507170817-22AR89VDNH3I307BANT6DSD928&docFormat=HTM&formType=10-K
...what you engage in yourself.
The directors can pretty much dilute the value and rights of the common stock in any way they wish. So the value of the common stock does not mirror a take-over cost.
SCOX 10-K: http://yahoo.brand.edgar-online.com/fetchFilingFrameset.aspx?dcn=0000891020-07-000020&Type=HTML
The 2003 fine was paid during 2004 (http://www.news.com/2100-1014_3-5255715.html). The other additional fines most likely have been as well since Microsoft does have a business presence in Europe via Microsoft EMEA located in Ireland I belive (EMEA stands for Europe, Middle-East, Africa). Should the boardmembers refuse to pay then that would land them in court and result in possible personal punishments. No sane business professional would do that no matter how many chairs are thrown on the other side of the atlantic.
I beg to differ. Having the budget or budget proposal available in an electronic format will allow interested parties to analyse the content in a more effective manner. And interested parties aren't just politically entities with "printing assitants" but organisations and persons trying to influence the agenda. Some might see this as a burden to political executives but I do belive that in the end that a widely disseminated budget information is better than a set of papers that only those who have access to the economical means to pre-process can use.
I don't think it would work to well in crowded downtown areas either. Imagine a mix of driverless and regular cars. The driverless cars will have to follow a, let's call it, fully legal driving plan. That means not taking chances and allways err on the safe side but that makes them vulnerable to "bullying" from regular drivers that can force the driverless car to yield. They would risk to become more or less a second-class citizen in that traffic. That type of vulnerability would me much smaller outside city traffic.
But I do agree fully with you that legal/insurance-problem might be the biggest dealbreaker.
I think it will raise the price but perhaps not all the way to $40. Boxes should be very inexpensive, here in Sweden you can get a basic digital box with analog out for less than $50 without any subsidies at all. So I think the market will be skewed by the major producers that will make huge advertising campaigns with some unverifiable vague claims about what a quality product their box is. And get the money back on price hikes on the boxes since the subsidies makes the customers a lot let interested in price differences.
You do know that NOVA is a popular science program? Popular as in intended for the the general public. It's not a science article just meant for people with a decent scientific background. In this case I think it's perfectly ok to include temperature in F and they even started with Kelvin first. Yeah, it might have ruined it for you (seriously, you might want to tune down your sensitivity a bit) but it also made it a lot more accessible to the general public.