You forget that the 6502 could do indirect addressing through any of the zero page locations giving you a potential 128 stack pointers for your stack machine. Also, the zero page had a special address mode so that loads, stores and increments/decrements could be done with two byte instructions instead of three byte instructions, reducing the fetch execute time by one cycle.
However, I think the main reason stack machines were often implemented on 6502 has more to do with its relative lack of registers. There's only one register on which you can do arithmetic which means that you have to constantly save data out of it when calculating complex expressions. The stack machine architecture makes this a fairly task.
In an ideal world yes, but for now having mail thats encrypted whenever it traverses the internet and is cryptographically signed so you can verify the recipient is an improvement.
Not really. With SMTP you have no control over which MTAs the email gets queued on before it gets to the recipient. If the content is not encrypted, it will be on those untrusted servers in plain text for some (hopefully very short) period of time before it gets routed to the next server.
Perhaps you should consider all the millions of times Sat Nav is used every day without any incident and compare to the few occasions that have been related on this thread. The trouble is that the times the Sat Nav gets you to your destination without incident are not at all memorable and the one time it directed you into the mouth of an active volcano is something you'll never forget.
TomTom on my iPhone with the Western European maps and live traffic is exceptionally good. It gets the traffic delays bang on for the most part. Of course, it's impossible to say "was it right about that detour being faster?" without a parallel Universe in which I went the other way, but on the assumption that it is as accurate one the routes I don'r travel as it is on the routes I do travel, I'll trust it.
There is a reason why it shouldn't be the case for Android. The reason is that Google doesn't make the phones. This patch will have to be tested on each manufacturer's devices before it is made available. Google isn't going to do that, the manufacturers are. Well, you'd hope the manufacturers are.
This is the fundamental difference between the Android and iOS ecosystems, Android is fragmented, iOS is monolithic.
That must mean that git is the only version control system you've ever used.
Mercurial and subversion are both simpler to use, even CVS, but CVS wasn't fully functional. Git feels like it was written by some kernel hacker with no thought for all for the ordinary people that would end up using it.
The content providers don't sell to the end users, they sell to media companies. If you're, say, Channel 5 in the UK and you buy the latest hot American TV show, you'll probably not be screening it for several months. In fact, in some cases you might be broadcasting more than a year after the air date in the USA. If the same show has been made available on Netflix in the UK at the same time as in the US, your viewing figures are going to be eroded which means your advertising revenues will be reduced. Thus you make sure that, in the contract, you get exclusive rights to premier the show in your region, either that or you refuse to pay top dollar to the content provider.
It's all relative. It's the difference between cool and chilled. Go into a pub and order a British lager and a British cask conditioned real ale. You'll notice that the glass of lager is much colder. The lager is chilled using refrigerator technology. The real ale is at the temperature of the cellar which is cooler than room temperature but not refrigerated.
Balme's heroics were related specifically to Naval enigma which was more complex than the Army and Luftwaffe enigma (a bigger choice of moveable rotors and an extra fourth rotor that did not move whilst keying the message) and operational discipline was much better. In 1941, the British couldn't read Navy traffic without knowing the daily settings for the enigma machines. The daily settings is what Balme recovered that was so important.
In fact, the British never reliably broke the Navy enigma until the Americans got involved. Because of the extra rotors, they didn't have enough bombes. After they gave the designs to the USA, the Americans were able to build many more bombes (and make them faster) so we could reliably break the keys without needing to lift codebooks off U-boats.
If he's armed with a knife, I'd rather take the baseball bat option. If he's armed with a gun, he's going to shoot me first whether I have a gun or not.
The per country data shows a clear (although not perfect) correlation between the death rate from guns and number of people who own guns. The only reason people say you can't draw generalisations is because the data unequivocally support the case for restricting access to guns and they don't like that.
In the Star Wars universe, faster than light travel is routine. If the same laws of physics hold everywhere in this Universe as we observe here on Earth (not necessarily a given I believe), then there is nowhere in it like Star Wars even if it is infinite.
"Again, tell that to the thousands of believers who put Jedi on their census as a way of giving the middle finger to Richard Dawkins' atheist zealotry."
1. It's Britain, so it would be two fingers, not the middle finger.
2. I doubt if any of them did it as a way of spiting Richard Dawkins, and even if they did, that would indicate that they did it as a frivolous act, not because they truly believed in the Jedi religion.
I've seen some *amazing* replies on SO that must have easily taken the programmer an hour or more to craft. The great thing is that answers of that quality tend to get voted up highly, and lots of people seem to point links to that page, so Google ranks it quite highly.
For a long while, my top rated answer on SO was this joke.
I have written one or two answers of which I am quite proud and that took me an hour or two to craft, but my current top rated answer by a mile is a two line snippet of code demonstrating how to split a string in Objective-C.
What's hilarious to me is when I get to a SO question, and you have the inevitable jerk that tells the person asking the question to just "Google the answer". My inevitable thought is: how the hell do you think I got here, you self-righteous ass? I saw a great response from someone else as well, which was: "someone has to first answer the question before Google can link to an answer."
Soon after I started posting, somebody added some code to the site that refused to allow any answers with lmgtfy.com embedded as a link. I was outraged for about five seconds.
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You forget that the 6502 could do indirect addressing through any of the zero page locations giving you a potential 128 stack pointers for your stack machine. Also, the zero page had a special address mode so that loads, stores and increments/decrements could be done with two byte instructions instead of three byte instructions, reducing the fetch execute time by one cycle.
However, I think the main reason stack machines were often implemented on 6502 has more to do with its relative lack of registers. There's only one register on which you can do arithmetic which means that you have to constantly save data out of it when calculating complex expressions. The stack machine architecture makes this a fairly task.
In an ideal world yes, but for now having mail thats encrypted whenever it traverses the internet and is cryptographically signed so you can verify the recipient is an improvement.
Not really. With SMTP you have no control over which MTAs the email gets queued on before it gets to the recipient. If the content is not encrypted, it will be on those untrusted servers in plain text for some (hopefully very short) period of time before it gets routed to the next server.
Perhaps you should consider all the millions of times Sat Nav is used every day without any incident and compare to the few occasions that have been related on this thread. The trouble is that the times the Sat Nav gets you to your destination without incident are not at all memorable and the one time it directed you into the mouth of an active volcano is something you'll never forget.
TomTom on my iPhone with the Western European maps and live traffic is exceptionally good. It gets the traffic delays bang on for the most part. Of course, it's impossible to say "was it right about that detour being faster?" without a parallel Universe in which I went the other way, but on the assumption that it is as accurate one the routes I don'r travel as it is on the routes I do travel, I'll trust it.
I just accessed it with Safari and ABP and it didn't complain. ABP did tell me it blocked 39 adverts, which I think is a record for me.
There is a reason why it shouldn't be the case for Android. The reason is that Google doesn't make the phones. This patch will have to be tested on each manufacturer's devices before it is made available. Google isn't going to do that, the manufacturers are. Well, you'd hope the manufacturers are.
This is the fundamental difference between the Android and iOS ecosystems, Android is fragmented, iOS is monolithic.
Git doesn't even pick up changed items by default never mind new ones.
That must mean that git is the only version control system you've ever used.
Mercurial and subversion are both simpler to use, even CVS, but CVS wasn't fully functional. Git feels like it was written by some kernel hacker with no thought for all for the ordinary people that would end up using it.
Five years ago it was $16.
Two years ago it was $1000. Right now it is at $385
If nobody wants to buy bitcoins, how can the bitcoin payment processor convert bitcoins to fiat currency?
The content providers don't sell to the end users, they sell to media companies. If you're, say, Channel 5 in the UK and you buy the latest hot American TV show, you'll probably not be screening it for several months. In fact, in some cases you might be broadcasting more than a year after the air date in the USA. If the same show has been made available on Netflix in the UK at the same time as in the US, your viewing figures are going to be eroded which means your advertising revenues will be reduced. Thus you make sure that, in the contract, you get exclusive rights to premier the show in your region, either that or you refuse to pay top dollar to the content provider.
It's all relative. It's the difference between cool and chilled. Go into a pub and order a British lager and a British cask conditioned real ale. You'll notice that the glass of lager is much colder. The lager is chilled using refrigerator technology. The real ale is at the temperature of the cellar which is cooler than room temperature but not refrigerated.
Adblock plus is telling me it's blocked 13 ads on this page and that's with the excellent karma opt-out.
No.
Balme's heroics were related specifically to Naval enigma which was more complex than the Army and Luftwaffe enigma (a bigger choice of moveable rotors and an extra fourth rotor that did not move whilst keying the message) and operational discipline was much better. In 1941, the British couldn't read Navy traffic without knowing the daily settings for the enigma machines. The daily settings is what Balme recovered that was so important.
In fact, the British never reliably broke the Navy enigma until the Americans got involved. Because of the extra rotors, they didn't have enough bombes. After they gave the designs to the USA, the Americans were able to build many more bombes (and make them faster) so we could reliably break the keys without needing to lift codebooks off U-boats.
If he's armed with a knife, I'd rather take the baseball bat option. If he's armed with a gun, he's going to shoot me first whether I have a gun or not.
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What happens to the bullet you shoot in the air?
You're a menace to society if you do that.
No it isn't.
The per country data shows a clear (although not perfect) correlation between the death rate from guns and number of people who own guns. The only reason people say you can't draw generalisations is because the data unequivocally support the case for restricting access to guns and they don't like that.
So you think your exhaled breath comes from your gut. Is that because everybody tells you you are talking out of your arse?
In the Star Wars universe, faster than light travel is routine. If the same laws of physics hold everywhere in this Universe as we observe here on Earth (not necessarily a given I believe), then there is nowhere in it like Star Wars even if it is infinite.
If intelligence is measured on a continuous scale, the chances are that nobody is of mean intelligence, since the mean is a point on a line.
"Again, tell that to the thousands of believers who put Jedi on their census as a way of giving the middle finger to Richard Dawkins' atheist zealotry."
1. It's Britain, so it would be two fingers, not the middle finger.
2. I doubt if any of them did it as a way of spiting Richard Dawkins, and even if they did, that would indicate that they did it as a frivolous act, not because they truly believed in the Jedi religion.
Jediism is a recognized religion in that country.
Wrong.
There only recognised religion in the sense that it has any special legal status is the Church of England.
I've seen some *amazing* replies on SO that must have easily taken the programmer an hour or more to craft. The great thing is that answers of that quality tend to get voted up highly, and lots of people seem to point links to that page, so Google ranks it quite highly.
For a long while, my top rated answer on SO was this joke.
I have written one or two answers of which I am quite proud and that took me an hour or two to craft, but my current top rated answer by a mile is a two line snippet of code demonstrating how to split a string in Objective-C.
What's hilarious to me is when I get to a SO question, and you have the inevitable jerk that tells the person asking the question to just "Google the answer". My inevitable thought is: how the hell do you think I got here, you self-righteous ass? I saw a great response from someone else as well, which was: "someone has to first answer the question before Google can link to an answer."
Soon after I started posting, somebody added some code to the site that refused to allow any answers with lmgtfy.com embedded as a link. I was outraged for about five seconds.
Or petty.