Yeah, you're right.. I wasn't trying to make a distinction between the powers of 2 and powers of 10 in that post, simply to correct a roughly 1000-fold mistake in a parent post.
Perhaps "kilo byte" should mean 1000 bytes and "kilobyte" should mean 1024 bytes. It depends on whether kilo is being used to mean the SI prefix of 1000... insanity.
You can make REAL, ACTUAL CASH by going to the bathroom during the commercial so you don't have to go to the bathroom later when you're doing something more important, like.. driving?
Statistically, the model of the driver is one with a fairly consistent accident rate (normal distribution with a mean and standard distribution, perhaps skewed a bit). The rate is proportional the likelihood, -at any given time-, that an accident will occur. Just as a coin rolled ten times coming up heads has a 50% chance to come up heads again (assuming it's balanced and is a fair coin), for a given driver, time elapsed since last accident and controlled for age, car, and so on shouldn't have any effect on likelihood of an accident in the next, say, 10 days.
However, they don't know much about any given driver. When an accident occurs, they can use statistics to get more information about the actual rate. However, if this is overdone, the whole point of insurance is lost: spreading out risk.
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I'm pretty sure VMs use boot.ini in the same cases that non-VMs use boot.ini.
Yeah, you're right.. I wasn't trying to make a distinction between the powers of 2 and powers of 10 in that post, simply to correct a roughly 1000-fold mistake in a parent post.
I've grown up thinking 'kilobyte = 1024 bytes, megabyte = 1024 kilobytes', etc, FWIW.
Perhaps "kilo byte" should mean 1000 bytes and "kilobyte" should mean 1024 bytes. It depends on whether kilo is being used to mean the SI prefix of 1000... insanity.
An interesting post on the whole mess: http://meta.ath0.com/2005/02/23/a-plea-for-sanity/
An exabyte is 1,000,000 terabytes. (An exbibyte is 1,048,576 tebibytes.)
Yeah, now the people who made Soul Plane can bring us a Star Trek movie!
You can make REAL, ACTUAL CASH by going to the bathroom during the commercial so you don't have to go to the bathroom later when you're doing something more important, like.. driving?
Statistically, the model of the driver is one with a fairly consistent accident rate (normal distribution with a mean and standard distribution, perhaps skewed a bit). The rate is proportional the likelihood, -at any given time-, that an accident will occur. Just as a coin rolled ten times coming up heads has a 50% chance to come up heads again (assuming it's balanced and is a fair coin), for a given driver, time elapsed since last accident and controlled for age, car, and so on shouldn't have any effect on likelihood of an accident in the next, say, 10 days.
However, they don't know much about any given driver. When an accident occurs, they can use statistics to get more information about the actual rate. However, if this is overdone, the whole point of insurance is lost: spreading out risk.