This just makes the point that we need an actual right to control how information about us is used (with the obvious exceptions — sex offenders, quoting, people running for public office, etc), preferably laid down in an amendment. It would put a sudden and drastic stop to things like "opt-out" mailing lists, and could standardize the way companies would have to require people to opt-in, thus making it easier for the, well, "unwashed masses" (ie, clueless users) to make a coherent choice and actually maintain control over how their information is being used.
I've only had two drives fail, but that was due to a tree falling on the power lines close to my house and shorting them (watching the bright showers of sparks into the road in the dark was fun, though). I think I've bought somewhere around 50 of them over the last 15 years (since they actually got inexpensive enough to be worth buying).
It wouldn't be good as a primary means of validation (for the reasons listed in prior comments), but it would be good as a supplemental validation, giving a "higher likelihood" that the person is who they say they are.
Sliced HAM (also called many other names) worked by actually using the Blitter to swap what hardware address the palette was at every 64 pixels or so, so several times per scan line, based on a table that the programmer set up that pointed to them. The biggest problem with it was it had to be rewritten for each chipset, because the timing was (by necessity) hard-coded into the Blitter commands.
And actually, the Amiga is still around, just not in the same form. See their home page for details. (Full Disclosure: I worked for a time as their New OS Development Lead several years back.)
Literacy rates in the fourth century aren't known, but for Athens itself, at least, the literacy rates might have been very high... Unfortunately, "galley slave" rates within Athens itself would have likely been very low. There's this thing about boats being in the water... (:
Ya know, back in 92/93, I never thought the web would take off, because I saw it as a Gopher (which I hated) with slow, useless graphics. Course, by 95 I was writing a web browser and on the HTML-WG, but still... (:
Actually, there were two 6-bit modes on the Amiga - EHB, as described, and HAM (Hold And Modify), which caused the pixels defined as colors 32-63 to be defined as "the color of the pixel to the left, but with its (R|G|B) value replaced with...", thus allowing for all 4096 colors on-screen at once, but usually with a slight fudge-factor, depending on your image and how you arranged your 32-color palette.
And that's not getting into the later chipsets, which mostly just added bits... (:
Am I the only one who noticed that they're using Dry Ice? Why aren't all of the environmentalists screaming that China's deliberately releasing large amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere? Isn't this what's supposed to be causing global warming?
[IANAL] Exactly. There's a statute of limitations on most types of violations, and the start date is related to original discovery of the infringement.
(Correct me if I'm way off-base here...) WiMax is 1:n (Tower:Clients); this is more oriented toward 1:1 (Tower:Tower), to be used instead of laying fiber across mountain ranges or flood plains, for instance.
In either case, the proposed change to ICANN policy would stop even NS's practice, because they'd be charged the $0.20 fee for every domain name they did that with, which would add up to expensive really fast. They've stated that they would stop the practice if the ICANN implements the "no registration fee refund" policy, though their claimed reasons are that their users would be less at risk.
They know it's accurate because the voice translation told them it was! It then said something about "robotic voice translator overlords..." We're not sure about that bit. (:
Flash is long-term storage, not cache or volatile RAM. Hard drives passed this up long ago. The whole point of flash is as a faster, easier, smaller version of a hard drive.
Actually, from what I know of jury selection rules (Disclaimer: IANAL), each side can only disqualify a limited number of jurors (I think it's along the lines of 5 each in many jurisdictions). Which forces them to be careful about who they disqualify, because they may get someone even worse.
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Exactly. Get a clue, people. Stop trying to patent the frikkin' XOR cursor loop.
This just makes the point that we need an actual right to control how information about us is used (with the obvious exceptions — sex offenders, quoting, people running for public office, etc), preferably laid down in an amendment. It would put a sudden and drastic stop to things like "opt-out" mailing lists, and could standardize the way companies would have to require people to opt-in, thus making it easier for the, well, "unwashed masses" (ie, clueless users) to make a coherent choice and actually maintain control over how their information is being used.
I've only had two drives fail, but that was due to a tree falling on the power lines close to my house and shorting them (watching the bright showers of sparks into the road in the dark was fun, though). I think I've bought somewhere around 50 of them over the last 15 years (since they actually got inexpensive enough to be worth buying).
It wouldn't be good as a primary means of validation (for the reasons listed in prior comments), but it would be good as a supplemental validation, giving a "higher likelihood" that the person is who they say they are.
Sliced HAM (also called many other names) worked by actually using the Blitter to swap what hardware address the palette was at every 64 pixels or so, so several times per scan line, based on a table that the programmer set up that pointed to them. The biggest problem with it was it had to be rewritten for each chipset, because the timing was (by necessity) hard-coded into the Blitter commands.
And actually, the Amiga is still around, just not in the same form. See their home page for details. (Full Disclosure: I worked for a time as their New OS Development Lead several years back.)
Ya know, back in 92/93, I never thought the web would take off, because I saw it as a Gopher (which I hated) with slow, useless graphics. Course, by 95 I was writing a web browser and on the HTML-WG, but still... (:
Actually, there were two 6-bit modes on the Amiga - EHB, as described, and HAM (Hold And Modify), which caused the pixels defined as colors 32-63 to be defined as "the color of the pixel to the left, but with its (R|G|B) value replaced with ...", thus allowing for all 4096 colors on-screen at once, but usually with a slight fudge-factor, depending on your image and how you arranged your 32-color palette.
And that's not getting into the later chipsets, which mostly just added bits... (:
Am I the only one who noticed that they're using Dry Ice? Why aren't all of the environmentalists screaming that China's deliberately releasing large amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere? Isn't this what's supposed to be causing global warming?
[IANAL] Exactly. There's a statute of limitations on most types of violations, and the start date is related to original discovery of the infringement.
All it takes is for one company to start putting them out, and the rest have to follow or lose their market share.
True, but it's way faster than 0kbps. (:
(Correct me if I'm way off-base here...) WiMax is 1:n (Tower:Clients); this is more oriented toward 1:1 (Tower:Tower), to be used instead of laying fiber across mountain ranges or flood plains, for instance.
In either case, the proposed change to ICANN policy would stop even NS's practice, because they'd be charged the $0.20 fee for every domain name they did that with, which would add up to expensive really fast. They've stated that they would stop the practice if the ICANN implements the "no registration fee refund" policy, though their claimed reasons are that their users would be less at risk.
Haven't you been paying attention? Gold's at an all-time high, and they gotta pay for their (over-)weight in it somehow. (:
Physics always has been the domain of sci-fi authors. How do you think we got most of our current theories? (:
They know it's accurate because the voice translation told them it was! It then said something about "robotic voice translator overlords..." We're not sure about that bit. (:
Yes, but the real question is: Can we use his motion to generate limitless power, that we can use to power AT&T's computers running Hancock?
Unfortunately, we wouldn't be able to get a patent on it. Alas, perpetual motion machines are forbidden. (:
Flash is long-term storage, not cache or volatile RAM. Hard drives passed this up long ago. The whole point of flash is as a faster, easier, smaller version of a hard drive.
Actually, from what I know of jury selection rules (Disclaimer: IANAL), each side can only disqualify a limited number of jurors (I think it's along the lines of 5 each in many jurisdictions). Which forces them to be careful about who they disqualify, because they may get someone even worse.