Comment Re:It depends (Score 1) 201
s/will be lurking/haunts/
Comment Re:General purpose computing already won (Score 1) 439
That's only insightful if you didn't care to read/watch the talk. He actually is arguing against locked down devices.
Comment Re:Let's face it (Score 1) 110
And anyone who uses it for real protection would never base their acceptance of a key on the short ID anyhow.
I wonder what Manning would have done. Someone who doesn't even know how to turn off the logging feature in his IM client...
Comment Re:So people really have this much time and money? (Score 1) 377
Comment Re:So people really have this much time and money? (Score 1) 377
See comment http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2590622&cid=38501538 ff.
Comment Re:So people really have this much time and money? (Score 1) 377
Comment Re:So people really have this much time and money? (Score 1) 377
Just a quick search away:
http://www.yourdiscovery.com/battle_of_chernobyl/consequences/index.shtml
Comment Re:Anonymous are hypocrites (Score 1) 356
instead posting tired, lame anarchist diatribes predicting the downfall of Capitalism.
This is just a copy&paste of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coming_Insurrection
Which is more related to France than the US.
Comment Re:So people really have this much time and money? (Score 4, Insightful) 377
Here in southern Germany you still have to test mushrooms and wild boar for radioactivity because of the Chernobyl accident 1986. It's mostly due to Cs137 which has a half life of ~ 30 years. I remember having to stay indoors for days as a child (i was 5 at that time) because of that accident. The linear distance to Chernobyl is about 1400 km.
I would call that very much polluting.
Comment Re:Which circumference? (Score 1) 332
0.08% is a small 10% from 1%. It's accurate enough for the poll.
Hard Drive Prices Slide As Thai Flood Aftermath Subsides 155
New submitter yeszomgpony writes "For the first time since the Thailand flooding, hard drive prices are finally starting to decrease. The price jump was kicked off in October when drive inventory levels plummeted 90% in less than a week. From the article: 'Over the past few weeks, hard drive prices have leveled off and have begun to drop slowly, according to Dynamite's data. "For first time, less than week after Western Digital's first [fabrication plant] went back on line, drive inventory began increasing at both distributors and ecommerce sites, and index prices began coming down a little too," Kubicki said. IDC has predicted that hard disk drive supply shortages in the wake of Thailand flooding would affect consumers, computer system manufacturers and corporate IT shops into 2013.'"
Comment Re:How much is that in Gigabytes? (Score 1) 312
As are octave and R: they both print in a format like 1e+01
Comment Re:How much is that in Gigabytes? (Score 1) 312
Usually its a capital E though to avoid confusing it with the e function.
Well - yes. I was lazy...
Comment Re:People underestimating? (Score 1) 312
The room all of my posessions right now fit in has a floor space of 22 m^2. Since i live in a flat share, there's more of course - in the living room, kitchen and bathroom. But that's not my property.
Comment Re:How much is that in Gigabytes? (Score 4, Funny) 312
Depends on storage media. (Now, this wasn't really too hard to figure out, wasn't it?)
But as i can see that you're completely lost here and don't have the faintest idea how to do this simple arithmetic task for yourself - i will tell you how it would work with SDXC memory cards as an example.
1 SDXC memory card has a volume of 32mm x 24mm x 2.1 mm = 32e-3m x 24e-3m x 2.1e-3m = 1.6128e-6 m^3
So, in 1 cubic meter (m^3) fit 1m^3/(1.6128e-6m^3/1card) = 6.2e5 card(s)
SDXC cards come in various capacities: 64GB to 2048GB
So 1 cubic meter would hold from
6.2e5card x 64GB/1card =~ 3.97e7GB
up to
6.25e5card x 2048GB/1card =~ 1.27e9GB
What can we learn from this result?
Since it spans 2 orders of magnitude, measuring a spacial volume with this unit of measurement isn't advisable.
