The Amiga could format high-density disks to 1,760 Kb, given a high-density disk drive (which only came as standard in the high-end machines). However, if I remember rightly, to do this it had to slow the drive down.
The drive itself was not slowed down. Instead, the Amiga had the drive write an entire track at a time, rather than just one sector at a time. (This meant that it could store more sectors per track, because there were no inter-sector gaps, just a lead-in and lead-out for the track as a whole.) The reason that the drive seemed slower was because to write one sector, the Amiga had to read an entire track, replace the sector to be written, and then rewrite the entire track back to disk. All a PC had to do to write a sector was to write the sector. So it was the OS and method of storage that caused the slowdown, not the drive (hardware/firmware) itself.
What this meant was that writing random sectors would take more time, but writing sectors sequentially would not (usually). In fact, disk-to-disk copies were faster, because the Amiga could start reading in the middle of a track to get the whole track, whereas a PC had to wait for the particular sector that it wanted to read to come around under the read head.
Maybe the designer wasn't so intelligent after all, seeing as how he kept changing his mind.
I think that it was probably due less to "intelligent design" flaws, and more to the dinosaurs saying, "You know, our prey are feeling beings, and therefore it is unethical to use them for food when other means are available for meeting our dietary requirements.". I know that that's why I became a vegetarian, and what's good enough for me was probably good enough for dinosaurs.
One day, however, I'll probably be sitting around bored and fire up the ol' minesweeper and see if I'm as good at it as I was when I was younger.
I've never understood the fascination some people have with Minesweeper. As long as you are careful, take your time, and carefully analyze the minefield, you can generally get a mine to blow up in only one or two moves, five tops.
Einstein did more than than just come up with the theory of relativity and postulate bathtub rings around Ford Galaxies. Here are some of Einstein's other achievements:
Was the first American to climb Mt. Everest.
Was co-creator of the hit TV shows "The Newlywed Game" and "Escape from Gilligan's Island".
Contributed to the success of the George Forman Grill by suggesting that the grill be tilted so that the fat will run off.
Was the third James Bond.
Single-handedly captured John Wilkes Booth after the latter assassinated President Neville Chamberlain.
Helped write two of the Gospels in the Christian Bible, and provided technical assistance with some of Paul's Letters to the Thesolonians (sp?).
Was the first human to defeat Commander Data in a game of Poker.
Was the inspiration for "Romeo" in Larry Shakespeare's epic mini-series "Romeo and Juliet".
Had two songs in the Top 40 at the same time for six weeks in 1971.
Coined the term "asshole", which he first used to describe Jerry Falwell. (He also helped popularize the acronym "WTF?", although he did not coin that term.)
Widely recognized, along with Galileo and Sir Isaac Newton, as inventor of the Internet.
Discovered fire.
These are just some of the things that Einstein managed to do before his life was tragically cut short in a freak accident involving a fishing pole, two bungee cords, and an Elvis impersonator.
[links to studies purporting to show that marijuana has detrimental long-term effects on humans.]
Oh, like, wow, man, you are such a downer. Don't be, like, a such square, OK? Dude! Oh, like, hee-hee-hee! I need a pizza. Where are the Fritos? Hee-hee-hee! What time is it? Far out! Shit, I think I hear Dad coming! Crack a window, OK? Is the pizza here yet? Hee-hee-hee! Oh, like, wow, man! Groovy!
I remember the first time I let that ball slip past me in Pong. I felt like I'd let the entire world down.
I had a similar feeling the first time that I clicked on a mine in Minesweeper. I kept thinking to myself, "How many soldiers died because of my incompetence?".
The other event that had immense impact on me emotionally was near the beginning of Quake II, where I came upon a dead fellow soldier. As I gazed upon his lifeless body, I was filled with a sense of extreme rage. I remember thinking to myself, "Those damned Strogg are going to pay for this atrocity!". And they did.
While it needs that air to prevent the head from smashing into the drive platter, I think that modern drives are completely sealed. Thus they have their own atmosphere and don't need to be exposed to nasty particles and bacteria that could cause drive crashes.
Unless things have changed in the past couple of years, then no, modern drives are not completely sealed. They have a very small hole to allow equalization of air pressure between the interior and exterior of the drive. The hole is covered with a HEPA-style filter (which may be inside the drive), which helps keep out undesirable particles. The hole is also located in an area where very little airflow occurs (e.g., behind the circuit board), which also helps. Thus, there is very little air movement between the interior and exterior of the drive, but it does occur.
Unless things have changed in the past couple of years.
There's more to British television than Keeping Up Appearances and Are You Being Served?
Yes, there's "Are You Being Served Again?" (which, I understand, was named something else in the UK, for some unfathomable reason).
the only British show that made it to commercial (not PBS) television over here without being Americanized was Benny Hill. And Prisoner: Cell Block H
Several of Gerry Anderson's shows made it to commercial TV, mostly his puppet shows ("Supercar", "Fireball XL7", "Thunderbirds", etc., which appeared Saturday mornings, back when Saturday morning TV was worth watching), and one of his shows, "UFO", made it to prime-time (although that may have been syndicated (still commercial, though)). Also, speaking of prisoners, Patrick McGoohan's "The Prisoner" also appeared on commercial TV in the US back in the 1960s, as did "The Avengers" and "The Saint". (I remember watching them as a kid, back before we got a PBS station (or UHF), so I know that they were broadcast over commercial TV.)
It was in the first three films they made. I know one of them was called something like "The Trouble with Ewoks".
OK, I get it now. You aren't talking about "Star Trek"; you are talking about "Star Wars of Mayberry", where Opie Juan Ken Opie didn't recognize R2 Andy 2 and Aunt Bee PO. I got mixed up because I thought that we were talking about "Star Trek".
I run a site (see my sig) which has about 55 different pages on it. As I look at my site statistics, I see that most of my visitors only view one page. Of course this could mean that they don't like it, so they leave. That's okay. But, my number one referrer is actually Google IMAGES. So I guess that a lot of people are coming just to steal a picture, then they leave.
Don't tell me, let me guess; it's this image, right? Or maybe this one?
Not exactly. The end of the paragraph just before the list (in your link) indicates (emphasis added) that "Section 106 of the 1976 Copyright Act generally gives the owner of copyright the exclusive right to do and to authorize others to do the following: [...]". This means that it is legal for people other than the copyright holder to display, perform, etc., the copyright holder's works, provided that they have the copyright holder's permission.
Both are okay. Someone reading only every other word in something I say doesn't harm me. And since I may wish to do the same, I'm stuck having to let others do so too. It's kind of like how someone who truly believes in free speech will defend the right of others to say what they like, no matter how much they disagree with it. The people who only want non-objectionable things to be said are tyrants.
Are you sure? Notice how the meaning of your paragraph changes subtly if you read only every other word:
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And, to be complete, every other other word:
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in the original series (which, you may remember, takes place in the future compared to the version we're discussing), there's this scene where this old guy, whose name temporarily escapes me, comes across two robots and doesn't recognize them.
??? I don't ever remember there being robots in TOS. There was an episode ("I, Mudd") where there were some androids, and there were also androids in the episode where Nurse Chapel's former squeeze turns out to be an android himself, but that's about it, AFAICR. What episodes in TOS had robots in them?
Considering you have billions if not more dots spread out all over the place you would get the appeareance of a uniform universe.
Actually, my understanding is that, on a very large scale, the galaxies in the universe are distributed in a way that resembles the surfaces of bubbles in foam. That is, the universe contains huge roughly spherical voids, and most galaxies are located where these voids meet.
The most obvious potential threat that's relatively close is probably Eta Carinae, which is about as massive as it's possible to get, and it's been hypothesised in the past that there's a small chance we might be at risk from a sudden gamma ray burst from it.
But it will be a danger only if one of its poles is pointing right at us (within a degree or so), since, according to current theory, GRBs are emitted along the poles of a collapsing star. (One of the other posters here compared it to a flashlight beam.)
Yesterday or the day before, one of the science channels had a program about GRBs. They may still be running it, or may repeat it during the week, if anyone is interested (or even if no one is interested).
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Instead, the Amiga had the drive write an entire track at a time, rather than just one sector at a time.
(This meant that it could store more sectors per track, because there were no inter-sector gaps, just a lead-in and lead-out for the track as a whole.)
The reason that the drive seemed slower was because to write one sector, the Amiga had to read an entire track, replace the sector to be written, and then rewrite the entire track back to disk.
All a PC had to do to write a sector was to write the sector.
So it was the OS and method of storage that caused the slowdown, not the drive (hardware/firmware) itself.
What this meant was that writing random sectors would take more time, but writing sectors sequentially would not (usually).
In fact, disk-to-disk copies were faster, because the Amiga could start reading in the middle of a track to get the whole track, whereas a PC had to wait for the particular sector that it wanted to read to come around under the read head.
(Although, LISP tends to be the other way around (i.e., quotes within parentheses).)
I know that that's why I became a vegetarian, and what's good enough for me was probably good enough for dinosaurs.
As long as you are careful, take your time, and carefully analyze the minefield, you can generally get a mine to blow up in only one or two moves, five tops.
Here are some of Einstein's other achievements:
- Was the first American to climb Mt. Everest.
- Was co-creator of the hit TV shows "The Newlywed Game" and "Escape from Gilligan's Island".
- Contributed to the success of the George Forman Grill by suggesting that the grill be tilted so that the fat will run off.
- Was the third James Bond.
- Single-handedly captured John Wilkes Booth after the latter assassinated President Neville Chamberlain.
- Helped write two of the Gospels in the Christian Bible, and provided technical assistance with some of Paul's Letters to the Thesolonians (sp?).
- Was the first human to defeat Commander Data in a game of Poker.
- Was the inspiration for "Romeo" in Larry Shakespeare's epic mini-series "Romeo and Juliet".
- Had two songs in the Top 40 at the same time for six weeks in 1971.
- Coined the term "asshole", which he first used to describe Jerry Falwell. (He also helped popularize the acronym "WTF?", although he did not coin that term.)
- Widely recognized, along with Galileo and Sir Isaac Newton, as inventor of the Internet.
- Discovered fire.
These are just some of the things that Einstein managed to do before his life was tragically cut short in a freak accident involving a fishing pole, two bungee cords, and an Elvis impersonator.Don't be, like, a such square, OK?
Dude!
Oh, like, hee-hee-hee!
I need a pizza.
Where are the Fritos?
Hee-hee-hee!
What time is it?
Far out!
Shit, I think I hear Dad coming! Crack a window, OK?
Is the pizza here yet?
Hee-hee-hee!
Oh, like, wow, man!
Groovy!
I kept thinking to myself, "How many soldiers died because of my incompetence?".
The other event that had immense impact on me emotionally was near the beginning of Quake II, where I came upon a dead fellow soldier.
As I gazed upon his lifeless body, I was filled with a sense of extreme rage.
I remember thinking to myself, "Those damned Strogg are going to pay for this atrocity!".
And they did.
They have a very small hole to allow equalization of air pressure between the interior and exterior of the drive.
The hole is covered with a HEPA-style filter (which may be inside the drive), which helps keep out undesirable particles.
The hole is also located in an area where very little airflow occurs (e.g., behind the circuit board), which also helps.
Thus, there is very little air movement between the interior and exterior of the drive, but it does occur.
Unless things have changed in the past couple of years.
Also, speaking of prisoners, Patrick McGoohan's "The Prisoner" also appeared on commercial TV in the US back in the 1960s, as did "The Avengers" and "The Saint".
(I remember watching them as a kid, back before we got a PBS station (or UHF), so I know that they were broadcast over commercial TV.)
You aren't talking about "Star Trek"; you are talking about "Star Wars of Mayberry", where Opie Juan Ken Opie didn't recognize R2 Andy 2 and Aunt Bee PO.
I got mixed up because I thought that we were talking about "Star Trek".
Or maybe this one?
The end of the paragraph just before the list (in your link) indicates (emphasis added) that "Section 106 of the 1976 Copyright Act generally gives the owner of copyright the exclusive right to do and to authorize others to do the following: [...]".
This means that it is legal for people other than the copyright holder to display, perform, etc., the copyright holder's works, provided that they have the copyright holder's permission.
Notice how the meaning of your paragraph changes subtly if you read only every other word:And, to be complete, every other other word:
I refuse to be held responsible for idiotic decisions made by my countrymen
I don't ever remember there being robots in TOS.
There was an episode ("I, Mudd") where there were some androids, and there were also androids in the episode where Nurse Chapel's former squeeze turns out to be an android himself, but that's about it, AFAICR.
What episodes in TOS had robots in them?
That is, the universe contains huge roughly spherical voids, and most galaxies are located where these voids meet.
Why is it called menstruation if only women get it?
(One of the other posters here compared it to a flashlight beam.)
Yesterday or the day before, one of the science channels had a program about GRBs.
They may still be running it, or may repeat it during the week, if anyone is interested (or even if no one is interested).
To be more specific:
- "They are not" ==> "They're not" or "They aren't".
- "We are not" ==> "We're not" or "We aren't".
- "He is not" ==> "He's not" or "He isn't".
- "I am not" ==> "I'm not" or "I amn't"???
"Ain't" fits the "hole" in the language that the lack of "amn't" leaves.Having written all of the above, I mayself don't use "ain't" except for emphasis (e.g., "Ain't gonna happen.").
No, wait; I think that I parsed your sentence wrong.