So, they're looking for civili[zs]ations classified as Type 3 in the Kardashev scale:
A civilization in possession of energy on the scale of its own galaxy.
OK, suppose we find their galaxy, conspicuous like a flamingo. How do we hail in order to confirm?
Educated guess: since some files will eventually have to be modified/deleted, and they aren't about to toss a disc every time, I'm guessing they log file (block?) invalidation for deletes/updates. Once the disc has too little valid data, the valid data (likely of several discs in the same condition) is copied to a new disc and the old one goes to the shredder.
If regulations internal or legal) specify that some data has to be effectively destroyed at the moment, then just skip the invalidation bit and replace the disc right away.
I knew someone would bring up OCZ's reputation. News flash: they've been wholly owned by Toshiba since January. Why they decided to keep the tarnished brand is a mystery to me.
Then add the bloody exception, because a man-in-the-middle attack is out of the question and that's precisely what it's for.
Wow, someone's ulcer is flaring up.
FF never loaded my routers page because some stupid certificate bullshit at the time.
If you're using https, it's worthless without a trusted certificate. Blame who made your router. And psst... it can be bypassed with an exception, even permanently.
Opera, forced an update on me right in the middle of writing down stuff.
I don't use the Wonder from the North, but apparently the update can be postponed, and the whole auto-update mechanism can be disabled.
Why are developers so shit? You'd think they'd sit down and just think things out. PLAN THINGS YOU IDIOTS.
I know, right? So hard to find competent help these days. So fire them!
Well, to be fair "shop" also means a place where things are crafted or repaired (compare with "workshop"). Visual Studio is visual in its design methodology, but no so much a studio.
Zune. Bing. Works. Visio. Vizact.
And lastly, Bob.
From TFA:
Understanding the Workstation Market:
The first thing we need to talk about is the difference between workstation and consumer GPUs. The GPUs themselves are essentially identical -- NVIDIA's Quadro K6000 is based on GK104 (Kepler) the older Quadro 6000 is a GF100 (Fermi)-based chip, the W9000 uses the same GCN core that powers the HD 7970/R9 280X, and today's W9100 is essentially identical to the Hawaii XT core inside the R9 290X. What sets these workstation cards aside are the amount of RAM they carry (typically 2-3x as much as a consumer card), their validation cycles (workstation GPU cores are hammered on far more than the consumer equivalents) and the amount of backend vendor support and optimization that AMD and NVIDIA both perform.
This optimization process and long-term vendor partnership is what distinguishes the workstation market from the consumer space and the need to pay for some of those development costs is part of why workstation cards tend to cost so much more than their consumer equivalents.
Understanding the Workstation Market:
The first thing we need to talk about is the difference between workstation and consumer GPUs. The GPUs themselves are essentially identical -- NVIDIA's Quadro K6000 is based on GK104 (Kepler) the older Quadro 6000 is a GF100 (Fermi)-based chip, the W9000 uses the same GCN core that powers the HD 7970/R9 280X, and today's W9100 is essentially identical to the Hawaii XT core inside the R9 290X. What sets these workstation cards aside are the amount of RAM they carry (typically 2-3x as much as a consumer card), their validation cycles (workstation GPU cores are hammered on far more than the consumer equivalents) and the amount of backend vendor support and optimization that AMD and NVIDIA both perform.
This optimization process and long-term vendor partnership is what distinguishes the workstation market from the consumer space and the need to pay for some of those development costs is part of why workstation cards tend to cost so much more than their consumer equivalents.
From TFA.
That's so dark, I can't make out its shape.
Two were direct replies and the top-level post got me a nice reply from the developer's brother. Screw karma, I've got enough for whatever it's worth.
Not a good idea to haul one on a hike, I presume.
Nice! Can you lead us to a more technical article? Even the bit from Oxford is light on details.
I swear this is why I read
It looks like there's more to it than increased surface area - the Coand effect may be at work here, making the plumes of hot gas creep along the "trenches" rather than flare out. There's a video where it kind of shows what I mean at (1'25").
Then again, this may be just a case of increased area for heat transfer. I'm not a rocket engineer.
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