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49 here, and I'm not sure what a gamer would need a magazine for, either, today. Ten years ago, before the internets and the googles were everywhere, they were still a good idea. In fact, many of the computer and gaming magazines from the '80s and '90s have been scanned, and you can find PDFs of them, because the information is still interesting and useful to retro-gamers.
And the reason you've never heard of them is probably because it's a UK magazine, which a quick check of the first link in TFS would reveal.
IMHO, Byte died long before it stopped printing. In 1987, tax laws were changing, and magazine subscriptions would no longer be a professional expense. So they offered a 6 years for $99 subscription rate, and I took it because I didn't want to have to mess with resubscribing every year. By 1993, the articles were basically all PC and MS-DOS centric (with the occasional token Mac or Amiga or Atari ST article), and a significant percentage were software reviews. The only thing left that I cared about was Jerry Pournelle's column. I didn't renew.
It wasn't entirely their fault, though. The computer industry really did become that boring.
Supercaps also charge a lot faster, because they don't have to convert the charge to a chemical change like a battery. But they are also very touchy devices, and you especially don't want to go over their voltage rating. It's the same reason you want to specify double the voltage rating for electrolytic caps.
I was giggling inside until I saw "katy" in that link and realized it was Houston. They're working to put "managed lanes" in Austin, too, on Mopac. At least in the case of Houston, they've had HOV lanes on I-10 almost forever. I'm not sure how they can tell whether you are HOV or not (the front window isn't enough, what if someone is in the back seat?), so I guess it's based on having HOV hours and toll hours, but they don't explicitly explain that.
I believe he was talking about how cable companies (at least Time Warner) require you a subscription to basic-basic cable to be able to get internet service. Basically, it's technically a pain in the ass to prevent you from being able to receive the low channels that are clear NTSC. Single channels could be blocked with a filter, but not whole ranges.
I've heard that Canada's DTV transition hasn't gone very well. But for what it's worth, VHF-lo is horrible for ATSC. Also, try rotating your outdoor antenna to see if you can improve the reception. Antennas can be somewhat directional, and it matters a lot for ATSC, especially with local channels that may have multipath interference. But mountains are definitely not going to make things easy for you.
Turning on all warnings and forcing them to errors certainly would have caught the bug in Apple's SSL code. Anyone who just lets warnings fly by in C code is an idiot. Even if the warning is mildly silly, getting it out of the way lets the important warnings stand out. Sensible warnings from C compilers are the very reason we don't use lint anymore. Even then you still have to watch out, because some warnings won't appear at low optimization levels, and I recall hearing that there are a few obscure warnings not turned on by -Wall.
Also, it could have possibly been introduced by a bad merge. One of the things that putting braces on every if/for/while/etc. does is give merges more context to keep from fucking up, or at least a chance to cause brace mismatch.
As for Heartbleed, just the fact that the code wouldn't work with a compile time option to use the system malloc instead of a custom one should have been enough to raise some red flags. Because rolling your own code to do something "more efficiently" than the system libraries never introduces new problems, right?
Older ones sandwiched the data layer between multiple layers of plastic and I think it's these ones I've had fail.
I've been buying CDs since they were new and I don't recall ever seeing this. Manufacturers may now make the lacquer layer thinner than they used to, but they all have had the metal layer on one side. There was an attempt to make "sandwich" CDs with a DVD on the other side, but older CD players might not be able to handle the difference in focus depth.
Note that all DVDs are made as sandwich discs, and 2-side dual-layer (DVD-18) discs have 3 discs sandwiched together.
...except maybe for the little detail of commercial crew replacing something we're currently dependent on the Russians for, and dependent on for three more years than we should already, because Congress is the opposite of progress and underfunded it. I'm sure it's possible to generate a push against that, especially if Obama decided to personally make it an issue.
Ah, now I think I see your point. The boosters on the side were a problem, but the ET on the side was also a problem. Basically, they put two different things to the side of a crew vehicle with no escape system, and each failed with a vehicle loss.
If you plug that USB1 device into a port of a USB3 hub, it will slow down the USB3 transfer rate simply by taking up time slots that now have to slow down for grandpa.
That is, if you can get your USB3 device to work at all, from some of the stuff I'm reading here.
I think xtoi would be more interesting, because you get to see what they do about the 0-9 A-F range split. Will they try to use a constant string "0123456789ABCDEF" (this is harder to use for xtoi than for itox!), or will they try something like "while (isxdigit(*s)) { digit = *s++ - '0'; if (digit > 9) digit -= 'A' - '9' - 1; if (digit > 15) digit -= ('a' - 'A'); n = (n << 4) + digit;}" ?
That program would be up and running with regular Area I launches now and Ares V heavy test launches underway
Yep... at the cost of shutting down ISS first to pay for it. So it would have nowhere to go.
Support of "NewSpace" is the only thing Obama has done that I agree with. It started at the end of Bush's presidency, but Obama's support for it seems to be all his own. The real problem NASA has is being underfunded by Congress, and a space subcommittee that wants to keep Shuttle-era "OldSpace" around.
The boosters were solid fuel and didn't need to be cooled.
Whaaaaat? The problem had nothing to do with how the boosters or ET were made or what they were made of; it had everything to do with where they were mounted, as in to the side of the crew vehicle.
Sierra Nevada is working on the closest thing to Shuttle aside from the X37B. It will be mounted above the first stage.
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That's because we old farts have learned to tune out the ads and use the time to think about something else.
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Why the hell do appliances (especially a fridge) need a screen for?
To remind you to buy more Brawndo.
BRAWNDO! It's got electrolytes!
(I watch too much CNN)
AKA "unprofitable business not about to close down"
49 here, and I'm not sure what a gamer would need a magazine for, either, today. Ten years ago, before the internets and the googles were everywhere, they were still a good idea. In fact, many of the computer and gaming magazines from the '80s and '90s have been scanned, and you can find PDFs of them, because the information is still interesting and useful to retro-gamers.
And the reason you've never heard of them is probably because it's a UK magazine, which a quick check of the first link in TFS would reveal.
IMHO, Byte died long before it stopped printing. In 1987, tax laws were changing, and magazine subscriptions would no longer be a professional expense. So they offered a 6 years for $99 subscription rate, and I took it because I didn't want to have to mess with resubscribing every year. By 1993, the articles were basically all PC and MS-DOS centric (with the occasional token Mac or Amiga or Atari ST article), and a significant percentage were software reviews. The only thing left that I cared about was Jerry Pournelle's column. I didn't renew.
It wasn't entirely their fault, though. The computer industry really did become that boring.
Stack intentionally flies his plane into a building kill several.
Not several. He hit a break room. He killed himself and one guy who was just getting a cup of coffee.
But don't you know that TELSA wanted to give us all FREE ELECTRICITY until the OIL CARTEL had him silenced? It's all a conspiracy!
Supercaps also charge a lot faster, because they don't have to convert the charge to a chemical change like a battery. But they are also very touchy devices, and you especially don't want to go over their voltage rating. It's the same reason you want to specify double the voltage rating for electrolytic caps.
Ten times more would be x + 10x = 11x. Ten times as much would be 10x.
I was giggling inside until I saw "katy" in that link and realized it was Houston. They're working to put "managed lanes" in Austin, too, on Mopac. At least in the case of Houston, they've had HOV lanes on I-10 almost forever. I'm not sure how they can tell whether you are HOV or not (the front window isn't enough, what if someone is in the back seat?), so I guess it's based on having HOV hours and toll hours, but they don't explicitly explain that.
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Monocoles are overrated.
Yes, but it's low in potassium, so it's got less radiation than normal lettuce!
Obligatory link: Periodic Table Table: Potassium
what makes TV different?
Sports? How many people care to watch more than just highlights of The Big Game[tm] after it is already over?
I believe he was talking about how cable companies (at least Time Warner) require you a subscription to basic-basic cable to be able to get internet service. Basically, it's technically a pain in the ass to prevent you from being able to receive the low channels that are clear NTSC. Single channels could be blocked with a filter, but not whole ranges.
I've heard that Canada's DTV transition hasn't gone very well. But for what it's worth, VHF-lo is horrible for ATSC. Also, try rotating your outdoor antenna to see if you can improve the reception. Antennas can be somewhat directional, and it matters a lot for ATSC, especially with local channels that may have multipath interference. But mountains are definitely not going to make things easy for you.
Turning on all warnings and forcing them to errors certainly would have caught the bug in Apple's SSL code. Anyone who just lets warnings fly by in C code is an idiot. Even if the warning is mildly silly, getting it out of the way lets the important warnings stand out. Sensible warnings from C compilers are the very reason we don't use lint anymore. Even then you still have to watch out, because some warnings won't appear at low optimization levels, and I recall hearing that there are a few obscure warnings not turned on by -Wall.
Also, it could have possibly been introduced by a bad merge. One of the things that putting braces on every if/for/while/etc. does is give merges more context to keep from fucking up, or at least a chance to cause brace mismatch.
As for Heartbleed, just the fact that the code wouldn't work with a compile time option to use the system malloc instead of a custom one should have been enough to raise some red flags. Because rolling your own code to do something "more efficiently" than the system libraries never introduces new problems, right?
Older ones sandwiched the data layer between multiple layers of plastic and I think it's these ones I've had fail.
I've been buying CDs since they were new and I don't recall ever seeing this. Manufacturers may now make the lacquer layer thinner than they used to, but they all have had the metal layer on one side. There was an attempt to make "sandwich" CDs with a DVD on the other side, but older CD players might not be able to handle the difference in focus depth.
Note that all DVDs are made as sandwich discs, and 2-side dual-layer (DVD-18) discs have 3 discs sandwiched together.
...except maybe for the little detail of commercial crew replacing something we're currently dependent on the Russians for, and dependent on for three more years than we should already, because Congress is the opposite of progress and underfunded it. I'm sure it's possible to generate a push against that, especially if Obama decided to personally make it an issue.
Ah, now I think I see your point. The boosters on the side were a problem, but the ET on the side was also a problem. Basically, they put two different things to the side of a crew vehicle with no escape system, and each failed with a vehicle loss.
If you plug that USB1 device into a port of a USB3 hub, it will slow down the USB3 transfer rate simply by taking up time slots that now have to slow down for grandpa.
That is, if you can get your USB3 device to work at all, from some of the stuff I'm reading here.
I think xtoi would be more interesting, because you get to see what they do about the 0-9 A-F range split. Will they try to use a constant string "0123456789ABCDEF" (this is harder to use for xtoi than for itox!), or will they try something like "while (isxdigit(*s)) { digit = *s++ - '0'; if (digit > 9) digit -= 'A' - '9' - 1; if (digit > 15) digit -= ('a' - 'A'); n = (n << 4) + digit;}" ?
That program would be up and running with regular Area I launches now and Ares V heavy test launches underway
Yep... at the cost of shutting down ISS first to pay for it. So it would have nowhere to go.
Support of "NewSpace" is the only thing Obama has done that I agree with. It started at the end of Bush's presidency, but Obama's support for it seems to be all his own. The real problem NASA has is being underfunded by Congress, and a space subcommittee that wants to keep Shuttle-era "OldSpace" around.
The boosters were solid fuel and didn't need to be cooled.
Whaaaaat? The problem had nothing to do with how the boosters or ET were made or what they were made of; it had everything to do with where they were mounted, as in to the side of the crew vehicle.
Sierra Nevada is working on the closest thing to Shuttle aside from the X37B. It will be mounted above the first stage.