Mib 1 Quotes

It was a real book— onionskin pages bound in what might have been actual leather. Miller had seen pictures of them before; the idea of that much weight for a single megabyte of data struck him as decadent.

I began to realize how hard it was to separate all the voices to hear the single, strong one that came just from me." —Mibs Beaumont

In most ways, Mibs, we Beaumonts are just like other people...We get born, and sometime later we die. And in between, we're happy and sad, we feel love and we feel fear, we eat and we sleep and we hurt like everyone else. —Momma

I realized that good and bad were always there and always mixed up together in a tangle" -Mibs

5 1/2 centuries after its 1.0 release, the book is a surprisingly robust piece of information technology. Sure, its memory is relatively tiny--one novel adds up to less than a megabyte. But it doesn't need charging, and it never crashes. Its interface is rapidly and intuitively navigable. The scroll never stood a chance.

I’m sitting here on the Kaye Gibbons Show, and all I can think is that the whole country is sick. Sick with the idea that it’s good to be known as seen by as many people as possible, to show every part of our lives to the public at large. Whether it’s Facebook photos, blogs, or reality TV, it’s like nobody is content to just live life. The worth of our existence seems to be measured in pixels and megabytes and “likes.” Those of use whose lives can be downloaded seem to have the most value – until someone outrageous comes along to claim their time in the spotlight.

Fear is like a looking glass, there you can see what you’re really made of- Felicity Murphy (Weeping Well Vol. 1)

The beacon is empty. There is no light. -Eleazar Wentzel (Weeping Well, Vol. 1)

The OPA man, Anderson Dawes, was sitting on a cloth folding chair outside Miller's hole, reading a book. It was a real book - onionskin pages bound in what might have been actual leather. Miller had seen pictures of them before; the idea of that much weight for a single megabyte of data struck him as decadent.

So...what? Skipping detention is a crime?

As I walked I couldn't help but notice that out of the blue, a dark shadow was cast over the sky, as if it was a warning specifically for me.

Steve Jobs didn’t give us a 32MB music player. He gave us 1,000 songs in our pocket.

Lighter laptops followed (our first one had a 10mb hard disk; today one of our laptops, at about one-third of the weight, has flash storage of 1 terabyte—100,000 times larger in thirty years).

Some people (including the author) saved money by drilling holes in their 720 KiB certified floppy disks to have them recognized as 1.44 MiB. It worked!

was a real book—onionskin pages bound in what might have been actual leather. Miller had seen pictures of them before; the idea of that much weight for a single megabyte of data struck him as decadent.

It was a real book—onionskin pages bound in what might have been actual leather. Miller had seen pictures of them before; the idea of that much weight for a single megabyte of data struck him as decadent. “Detective.

Un libro de verdad, con páginas de papel cebolla encuadernadas en lo que parecía ser cuero auténtico. Miller había visto imágenes de uno de ellos antes, pero la idea que un escaso megabyte de datos pesara tanto se le antojaba decadente.

Suddenly the House of Mirrors had fallen down like a domino effect and I knew for the first time, I was all alone and half of who I used to be- Evangeline Murphy (Weeping Well, Vol. 1)

Sometimes we have to live even when we have lost everything.

I will love you till my soul loses its consciousness.

When I was a child, I believed that those stars were knights in silver armor protecting the universe against darkness.

My thoughts became demons and made my mind evil.

The compact disc may now be outdated technology, but a lot of music albums are still released on CD. A standard 700-megabyte CD is actually 703.125 megabytes (a rare case of the music industry giving something extra away for free), which is a total of 5,898,240,000 1s and 0s. By my calculations, the number of possible different CDs in base-10 would have 1,775,547,162 digits. Which is also the number of corners a hypercube would have in 5,898,240,000 dimensions. So whenever a musician claims they have written a new album, all they have really done is choose a corner on a very high-dimension hypercube.

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A single sperm contains 37.5 MB of DNA information. One ejaculation represents a data transfer of 15,875 GB,

Exponential Growth in Storage Consider data storage, which is critical for the genomics world today. The 3.2 billion base pairs of your genome correspond to about 725 megabytes of data, or 0.75 gigabytes of storage. In 1981, if you were to store your uncompressed genome, a 1-gigabyte hard drive of storage cost half a million dollars. Today, it’s 50 million times cheaper at under 1 cent per gigabyte.

When a transaction is executed, it is broadcast to all the computers in the network for them to update their ledgers. Transactions are bunched together to form a block of data, and once that block runs out of space (1 megabyte right now), computers race to solve a complex mathematical puzzle to verify the transactions, seal the block, and record it on their ledgers.

First CBI FIR against NDTV In 1998 the CBI registered a First Information Report (FIR) against Prannoy Roy and several officials in MIB and Doordarshan for conniving to siphon public money. The FIR found malpractice of around Rs.5 crores ($1.4 million) by Roy and others from Doordarshan’s exchequer. Apart from Rajdeep Sardesai’s father-in-law Bhaskar Ghose, another top official of Doordarshan that helped Prannoy Roy build his empire was Ratikanta Basu, who later joined Murdoch’s Star News. This was a clear case of quid-pro-quo and an apt example of corruption and conspiracy in looting public money.

It was a real book-- onionskin pages bound in what might have been actual leather. Miller had seen pictures of them before; the idea of that much weight for a single megabyte of data struck him as decadent.

due to the precision of the optical electron oscillation frequency within strontium or aluminium. 30. Train of identical nearly single-cycle optical pulses. The spectrum of the pulse train looks like the teeth of a comb, hence it is called a frequency comb. ‘Optical clockwork’ of this kind allows the comparison of disparate frequencies with such remarkable precision that it provides a means to test the tenets of relativity, and thus to understand better the role of light in defining space and time. Frequency, and thus time, is the physical quantity that can be measured with the highest precision of any quantity, by far. Optical telecommunications Frequency combs are also important in telecommunications links based on light. In Chapter 3, I described how optical waves could be guided along a fibre or in a glass ‘chip’. This phenomenon underpins the long-distance telecommunications infrastructure that connects people across different continents and powers the Internet. The reason it is so effective is that light-based communications have much more capacity for carrying information than do electrical wires, or even microwave cellular networks. This makes possible massive data transmission, such as that needed to deliver video on demand over the Internet. Many telecommunications companies offer ‘fibre optic broadband’ deals. A key feature of these packages is the high speed—up to 100 megabytes per second (MBps)—at which data may be received and transmitted. A byte is a number of bits, each of which is a 1 or a 0. Information is sent over fibres as a sequence of ‘bits’, which are decoded by your computer or mobile phone into intelligible video, audio, or text messages. In optical communications, the bits are represented by the intensity of the light beam—typically low intensity is a 0 and higher intensity a 1. The more of these that arrive per second, the faster the communication rate. The MBps speed of the package specifies how rapidly we can transmit and receive information over that company’s link.

Computing pioneer Edsger Dijkstra pointed out that computing is the only profession in which a single mind is obliged to span the distance from a bit to a few hundred megabytes, a ratio of 1 to 109, or nine orders of magnitude (Dijkstra 1989).

The OPA man, Anderson Dawes, was sitting on a cloth folding chair outside Miller’s hole, reading a book. It was a real book—onionskin pages bound in what might have been actual leather. Miller had seen pictures of them before; the idea of that much weight for a single megabyte of data struck him as decadent. “Detective.

Refer back to Using memory_profiler to Diagnose Memory Usage for a reminder on how to use memory_profiler; here we load it as a new magic function in IPython using %load_ext memory_profiler. Example 11-1. Measuring memory usage of 100,000,000 of the same integer in a list In [1]: %load_ext memory_profiler  # load the %memit magic function In [2]: %memit [0]*int(1e8) peak memory: 790.64 MiB, increment: 762.91 MiB

Example 11-1. Measuring memory usage of 100,000,000 of the same integer in a list In [1]: %load_ext memory_profiler  # load the %memit magic function In [2]: %memit [0]*int(1e8) peak memory: 790.64 MiB, increment: 762.91 MiB

It was a real book—onionskin pages bound in what might have been actual leather. Miller had seen pictures of them before; the idea of that much weight for a single megabyte of data struck him as decadent.

Or they could have no idea they had to install a driver, load nothing at startup, and not use any of the RAM beyond 1MiB. This use case was a big issue.

your brain eats an enormous amount of energy. For example, although it’s capable of capturing the equivalent of eleven megabytes of information per second from your eyes, you can only “upload” about sixty bits per second into the picture you consciously “see.” This is the equivalent of facing the entire population of Paris, France, but actually seeing only eight people.1

Program a map to display frequency of data exchange, every thousand megabytes a single pixel on a very large screen. Manhattan and Atlanta burn solid white.