Following that logic, that 64-bit machines are necessary in order to get more than 2^32 bytes of memory, one may assume that 8-bit machines were able to address only 256 bytes of memory. IIRC, my C64 had 64k without 16-bit CPU. The 6502 is an 8-bit processor with a 16-bit address bus.
"But if you didn't like the first installment, oppressed by its seeming plotlessness, its profusion of minutiae about life during the late 17th century, and its endless disquisitions on Puritan religious life and the genealogical interconnections of European royalty, then no matter what the reviewer says about the second, you're still unlikely to give it a go." - Salon
"For its first third, the book is a sluggish chore, the mountains of research Stephenson has absorbed making descriptions of Restoration London feel leaden, and intellectual discourses between Newton and his contemporaries textbook-dry. (...) In its mid-section Quicksilver starts to breathe (.....) All that keeps Quicksilver from greatness is the way its swashbuckling pleasures and philosophical rigours stay resolutely separate for much of its length, as frustratingly discrete as gold and lead." - Nick Hasted, Independent on Sunday
"Stephenson is himself the most vulgar of literary empiricists. His book is nothing but research in search of a narrative, a gigantic collection of index cards. In the spirit of such an enterprise, Quicksilver has its own website, and on it (as well as in the acknowledgments for the novel) Stephenson announces his reading about the seventeenth century in bookstores and libraries. He is very vain about his homework. (...) Interwoven throughout the dialogue lies the defensiveness of the narrative: Stephenson seems to know, however guiltily, that nobody speaks this way." - Deborah Friedell, The New Republic
"To paraphrase Thomas Hobbes, a contemporary of Quicksilver's many protagonists, the book is often nasty, brutal and long. (...) Cryptonomicon was also a long book, but there Stephenson employed a propulsive narrative that is absent in his new novel. (...) Stephenson is not the first to use this rich material as the background for a novel (...) But the truly prodigious research that went into writing Quicksilver ultimately sinks it." - Elizabeth Hand, The Washington Post
and on and on and on (almost as much as the novel itself)...
Yes, he was locked in a Monastary for 3,400 years, which gave him enough time to proofread the Baroque Cycle before submitting it for publication. Before that he was locked in a cave somewhere for another 5,000 years, which is when he actually wrote the books.
Or at least, it felt like an eternity when I was reading them. Or at least the part of the first one I could slog though. The second and third were given to me, but they sat idle on a shelf for 3 months before I realized that I would never be able to find the extra 20 years of free time I would need to get through them.
they had a resale value of $1.80 on Amazon, so I actually threw them in the trash. I have never done that before, but I didn't want to donate them to the library or "pay it forward" to some other poor soul.
No, but it is their place to decide WHERE they do business. Saudi Arabia may have a law that says a woman must be imprisoned for having pre-marital sex and that companies have to cooperate in any prosecution of such a case (by providing her emails and phone records, etc.). But I'm damn sure never going to follow that law because I'm damn sure never going to do business in Saudi Arabia as long as they have those kind of evil bullshit laws.
We have some laws here, for instance concerning drug use, that aren't all that spectacular either. Will you do business here while those evil bullshit laws are on the books? And I mean, don't even get me started on the laws about "terrorism."
Also, to the main topic, it's hard to "do no evil" and also deal with the federal government. They will fuck you over for bribe money (er I mean political contributions), and if that doesn't work, they'll fuck you over at the behest of other companies (see Netscape and Sun vs Microsoft). Plus they're also quite big now, and in the US once you're big, you're a big target. We here in the US don't like strong companies that will compete internationally, it seems.
I should probably make sure my son knows Russian and Chinese. They're the only ones that seem to get it. We're too busy tearing our own companies apart and worrying about all the wrong crap to be able to compete 15 years from now.
Microwave ovens were an accidental discovery, and it was done at Raytheon. They were working on a radar project, and they had this discovery when microwaves melted a bar of chocolate in a guys pocket (and maybe cooked his nads, who knows?).
Anyhow, that's why they were original called "Radaranges."
I'm not certain how NASA was involved with this?
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"But if you didn't like the first installment, oppressed by its seeming plotlessness, its profusion of minutiae about life during the late 17th century, and its endless disquisitions on Puritan religious life and the genealogical interconnections of European royalty, then no matter what the reviewer says about the second, you're still unlikely to give it a go." - Salon
"For its first third, the book is a sluggish chore, the mountains of research Stephenson has absorbed making descriptions of Restoration London feel leaden, and intellectual discourses between Newton and his contemporaries textbook-dry. (...) In its mid-section Quicksilver starts to breathe (.....) All that keeps Quicksilver from greatness is the way its swashbuckling pleasures and philosophical rigours stay resolutely separate for much of its length, as frustratingly discrete as gold and lead." - Nick Hasted, Independent on Sunday
"Stephenson is himself the most vulgar of literary empiricists. His book is nothing but research in search of a narrative, a gigantic collection of index cards. In the spirit of such an enterprise, Quicksilver has its own website, and on it (as well as in the acknowledgments for the novel) Stephenson announces his reading about the seventeenth century in bookstores and libraries. He is very vain about his homework. (...) Interwoven throughout the dialogue lies the defensiveness of the narrative: Stephenson seems to know, however guiltily, that nobody speaks this way." - Deborah Friedell, The New Republic
"To paraphrase Thomas Hobbes, a contemporary of Quicksilver's many protagonists, the book is often nasty, brutal and long. (...) Cryptonomicon was also a long book, but there Stephenson employed a propulsive narrative that is absent in his new novel. (...) Stephenson is not the first to use this rich material as the background for a novel (...) But the truly prodigious research that went into writing Quicksilver ultimately sinks it." - Elizabeth Hand, The Washington Post
and on and on and on (almost as much as the novel itself)...
Yes, he was locked in a Monastary for 3,400 years, which gave him enough time to proofread the Baroque Cycle before submitting it for publication. Before that he was locked in a cave somewhere for another 5,000 years, which is when he actually wrote the books.
Or at least, it felt like an eternity when I was reading them. Or at least the part of the first one I could slog though. The second and third were given to me, but they sat idle on a shelf for 3 months before I realized that I would never be able to find the extra 20 years of free time I would need to get through them.
they had a resale value of $1.80 on Amazon, so I actually threw them in the trash. I have never done that before, but I didn't want to donate them to the library or "pay it forward" to some other poor soul.
That said, I loved his earlier stuff!
You know, infoplease.com started as a popular radio quiz show. Like THAT's not going to be corrupt.
Microwave ovens were an accidental discovery, and it was done at Raytheon. They were working on a radar project, and they had this discovery when microwaves melted a bar of chocolate in a guys pocket (and maybe cooked his nads, who knows?). Anyhow, that's why they were original called "Radaranges." I'm not certain how NASA was involved with this?