and the prize for reading comprehension failure goes to pretty much every AC who responded to Parent. Read the last paragraph again. It deals with the inability of NT64 to run 16-bit DOS code natively. Read the meat again. That deals with adding a compatibility layer on NT32 to run 16 bit and 32 bit DOS code. Fuck me, the selective blindness demonstrated by the nerd community is astonishing.
all I'm saying is I got caught in the nimbus of this and my gaming account was suspended three weeks ago. I know who it was, he works in a bar in Manchester but a: not having proof and b: not being arsed with fighting a libel suit, I'm not naming names.
Dell already did it. The Venue 8 7480, for instance, sports an edge to edge screen. I still like my hackaday 30" 4:3 (4x15") wall made with 1024x768 Samsung panels from old Latitude laptops. It's like using a tall Cinema display. Almost. If you ignore the 1/16" wide frame around each panel.
I reckon it'd be like Lego. A 4-stud panel (that's 4-stud wide, standard height) would have a 16:10 aspect, a 2-stud 8:10. Tile a row of 4s, then the next row would consist of a 2, then 4s and a 2 at the other end - just like building a Lego brick wall. The panels would necessarily need to sport the same dot pitch, and the studs form part of the electronics to align the panels. Because the interlocks are in the same positions relative to the vertical edge on all the panels, they align themselves and you get a seamless horizontal join. The vertical seams would probably require some sort of coating to prevent abrasion as you connect the panels, and the whole kit can be controlled via a single stud unit (or even a 2 or 4 stud as part of a stand?) which feeds from a single output unit (like say, an UHD output from an SLI rig) and would probably have the ability to sense and count the number, type/s and relative positions of the connected panels and send outputs accordingly. Yes, it's like screen spanning in Windows (done it with a 4-screen setup by hacking cases, the result was pretty nice with only a 1/8" join which you barely, and I mean barely noticed from four feet away. The bugbear I had with that was the EIGHT cables the setup needed just for the screens and the fact that I had to set up the panels manually! Some sort of positional sensor would make that a lot less of an issue)
The other question would be one of intended use. For a wraparound, the wall would need to be curved to account for the proximity of the player otherwise you lose a lot in perspective. This can (and does) ruin it for gamers. For a video wall, this can be flat as you'll be viewing it from a distance.
Through all of that though, I think anything more than 48" diagonal and you're really looking at a projector otherwise you're spending obscene amounts of money on lots of heavy glass. A 48" wall built with 16" monitors is nine monitors.
Considering the industry move to 64-bit (how long ago now?), how easy is it to get a 16-bit DOS or a 32-bit Windows app to run in a 64-bit *NT* environment?
Between 16 and 32 bit, you had (for 9x) the fact that the kernel was actually 16-bit but could address a 32-bit address space, for 32-bit NT systems you have WOWExec (a DOS VM with a shared memory space) but for running 16-bit apps on 64-bit platforms you have to go one step further than a compatibility subsystem (ie WOWExec) and run the app in a third party sandbox - or virtual machine, if you will - such as VirtualBox running a dedicated DOS or 9x session in a segregated memory space. Other esoteric limitations particularly in 64-bit Windows versions prompted Microsoft to issue an update which included zero-length root files (AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS among others) in August 2010.
Long story short, if you're running into problems with "Windows 9" it's nothing to do with pulling a version number, you're trying to make a 64-bit system do a 16-bit thing which it was clearly not meant to do and will fail spectacularly anyway.
programming languages are lexicon agnostic. What uses human readable commands in Business English (ie pick a 4GL, any 4GL) in America uses the exact same commands in the same programming language using the same character set in China. Apart from that, as "Microsoft Windows" is a collective trademark http://www.microsoft.com/en-us... refer to recent and not-so-recent decisions across the planet in which Microsoft lost cases claiming sole TM rights on the generic term "Windows" as it describes a plurality of glass panels in a frame, it's (as in name, logo/device, etc) protected intellectual property. Makes it easier than coding for two hundred languages for every little thing: code once, translate the output if you need to using the common interface.
Facebook is like any other social networking site, full of inaccuracy. At least with WebMD and sites like NHS Direct, you can be pretty confident that when the online health diagnostic says in a big red box, "You have been gutshot, call for an ambulance immediately" it's pretty fucking serious to warrant a bit more than a paracetamol.
(yes, I've been there with Facebook pages already where one of the comments I read in response to a list of symptoms someone was having (including a rash on his bell end) was "You might be pregnant".)
You mean information that's in the public domain, for all to see? You might as well put all your personal information on a billboard then scream from the nearest rooftop for a law prohibiting people from looking up.
You're in a fucking dreamworld if you think for one second that that's gonna happen.
if it can be proven that their lying under oath was intended or tended to pervert the source of justice, then they damn well should be jailed. Problem is they're Federal agents, all they'll get is an "Oops" and a sideways promotion.
Addendum: a few more differences between the CEO and the X5 (from what I remember):
- wheelbase on the CEO is slightly longer (a matter of a couple inches)
- Track width on the CEO is also wider by about an inch
- Engine in the CEO is slightly smaller, offering more room in the cab
- Floor in the CEO is closer to the ground
- - Altogether offering better stability in the CEO, offset by it being about 400lb lighter on basic model compared with basic X5.
- CEO offers 123BHP, X5 offers 231BHP (base models), up to 198 and 381BHP respectively (depending on engine/transmission configuration).
- CEO back seats do not fold down, however they do have more longitudinal travel, hence more legroom available to rear seat passengers
- No airbags in the CEO, period (I think the X5 has front and side front airbags, side bags in the rear doors). Five point restraints for front seat passengers an option, however.
- Welded roll cage in the CEO: the BMW uses a monocoque.
Sources: as stated, otherwise BBC Top Gear Magazine
until you go round the back you would swear that their BMW X5 clone was actually a BMW X5. In 2008, BMW actually lost a court case against the company that built the clone (believe it or not, that is the CLONE on the left, built by Shuanghuan and dubbed the "CEO", revealed in a side by side comparison against the BMW stand at the 2007 Frankfurt Motor Show!) simply on the grounds that the company used a Mazda chassis and sidestep! Their "Genesis" model (from 2006?) uses their own chassis with coachwork reminiscent of the S Class (right down to the grille).
Re: your last point. I'm with Whoopi Goldberg on this one: if a woman hits a man, she should expect to be hit back. For the Law to apply it should apply to all equally, the 19th Amendment is for nought if it doesn't apply to the protection of mens rights as much as it does womens, even though it was the Suffragette Movement of the US under Alice Stokes Paul that got it ratified by 38 states in the 1960s. When the Law fails one, it fails all. Isn't that one of the bases of the United States Constitution? That All [OK, "Men"] are created Equal? A19 was pretty much intended to address that ONE SLIP in the original document.
Chess was invented back when men fought and women either stuck to the griddle or snuck into the other camp (or bared an ankle and blatantly strode in) and stuck any soldier she came across between the fourth and fifth ribs with a stiletto. Hence, the Queen can move in any direction in a straight line any number of squares.
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uh... they're both cephalopods. Major difference is squid have bones, octopi do not.
out of a piece of volcanic glass or flint and use it to open a vein it specifically targetted, is off the menu. Otherwise, it's on the menu.
and the prize for reading comprehension failure goes to pretty much every AC who responded to Parent. Read the last paragraph again. It deals with the inability of NT64 to run 16-bit DOS code natively. Read the meat again. That deals with adding a compatibility layer on NT32 to run 16 bit and 32 bit DOS code. Fuck me, the selective blindness demonstrated by the nerd community is astonishing.
all I'm saying is I got caught in the nimbus of this and my gaming account was suspended three weeks ago. I know who it was, he works in a bar in Manchester but a: not having proof and b: not being arsed with fighting a libel suit, I'm not naming names.
Dell already did it. The Venue 8 7480, for instance, sports an edge to edge screen. I still like my hackaday 30" 4:3 (4x15") wall made with 1024x768 Samsung panels from old Latitude laptops. It's like using a tall Cinema display. Almost. If you ignore the 1/16" wide frame around each panel.
I reckon it'd be like Lego. A 4-stud panel (that's 4-stud wide, standard height) would have a 16:10 aspect, a 2-stud 8:10. Tile a row of 4s, then the next row would consist of a 2, then 4s and a 2 at the other end - just like building a Lego brick wall. The panels would necessarily need to sport the same dot pitch, and the studs form part of the electronics to align the panels. Because the interlocks are in the same positions relative to the vertical edge on all the panels, they align themselves and you get a seamless horizontal join. The vertical seams would probably require some sort of coating to prevent abrasion as you connect the panels, and the whole kit can be controlled via a single stud unit (or even a 2 or 4 stud as part of a stand?) which feeds from a single output unit (like say, an UHD output from an SLI rig) and would probably have the ability to sense and count the number, type/s and relative positions of the connected panels and send outputs accordingly. Yes, it's like screen spanning in Windows (done it with a 4-screen setup by hacking cases, the result was pretty nice with only a 1/8" join which you barely, and I mean barely noticed from four feet away. The bugbear I had with that was the EIGHT cables the setup needed just for the screens and the fact that I had to set up the panels manually! Some sort of positional sensor would make that a lot less of an issue)
The other question would be one of intended use. For a wraparound, the wall would need to be curved to account for the proximity of the player otherwise you lose a lot in perspective. This can (and does) ruin it for gamers. For a video wall, this can be flat as you'll be viewing it from a distance.
Through all of that though, I think anything more than 48" diagonal and you're really looking at a projector otherwise you're spending obscene amounts of money on lots of heavy glass. A 48" wall built with 16" monitors is nine monitors.
Considering the industry move to 64-bit (how long ago now?), how easy is it to get a 16-bit DOS or a 32-bit Windows app to run in a 64-bit *NT* environment?
Between 16 and 32 bit, you had (for 9x) the fact that the kernel was actually 16-bit but could address a 32-bit address space, for 32-bit NT systems you have WOWExec (a DOS VM with a shared memory space) but for running 16-bit apps on 64-bit platforms you have to go one step further than a compatibility subsystem (ie WOWExec) and run the app in a third party sandbox - or virtual machine, if you will - such as VirtualBox running a dedicated DOS or 9x session in a segregated memory space. Other esoteric limitations particularly in 64-bit Windows versions prompted Microsoft to issue an update which included zero-length root files (AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS among others) in August 2010.
Long story short, if you're running into problems with "Windows 9" it's nothing to do with pulling a version number, you're trying to make a 64-bit system do a 16-bit thing which it was clearly not meant to do and will fail spectacularly anyway.
programming languages are lexicon agnostic. What uses human readable commands in Business English (ie pick a 4GL, any 4GL) in America uses the exact same commands in the same programming language using the same character set in China. Apart from that, as "Microsoft Windows" is a collective trademark http://www.microsoft.com/en-us... refer to recent and not-so-recent decisions across the planet in which Microsoft lost cases claiming sole TM rights on the generic term "Windows" as it describes a plurality of glass panels in a frame, it's (as in name, logo/device, etc) protected intellectual property. Makes it easier than coding for two hundred languages for every little thing: code once, translate the output if you need to using the common interface.
"I've got one of three things, in increasing order of probability: I'm dead, I'm pregnant, or I have gas."
(uh... I'll take "Things Sheldon would say" for 300?)
Facebook is like any other social networking site, full of inaccuracy. At least with WebMD and sites like NHS Direct, you can be pretty confident that when the online health diagnostic says in a big red box, "You have been gutshot, call for an ambulance immediately" it's pretty fucking serious to warrant a bit more than a paracetamol.
(yes, I've been there with Facebook pages already where one of the comments I read in response to a list of symptoms someone was having (including a rash on his bell end) was "You might be pregnant".)
nah fuck that, I'll just drop it on a stock image and upload it to cheezburger.
hm... only in America. They might run into some legal trouble in England, since there's a law against claiming a cure for cancer (1939 c. 13 section 4 paragraph 1a).
Doug Engelbart (1964), Sony (1980), someone in the 1960's (standardised in 1994 in a Usenet discussion).
You mean information that's in the public domain, for all to see?
You might as well put all your personal information on a billboard then scream from the nearest rooftop for a law prohibiting people from looking up.
You're in a fucking dreamworld if you think for one second that that's gonna happen.
most likely this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
Directly citing this: http://www.sciencemag.org/cont... (which was actually received for review in JULY).
...trying to make sense of this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
the NPCs and gameplay suck though.
(OLD meme, even older than memebase or cheezburger or whatever, it probably predates 7th Guest!)
if it can be proven that their lying under oath was intended or tended to pervert the source of justice, then they damn well should be jailed. Problem is they're Federal agents, all they'll get is an "Oops" and a sideways promotion.
Addendum: a few more differences between the CEO and the X5 (from what I remember):
- wheelbase on the CEO is slightly longer (a matter of a couple inches)
- Track width on the CEO is also wider by about an inch
- Engine in the CEO is slightly smaller, offering more room in the cab
- Floor in the CEO is closer to the ground
- - Altogether offering better stability in the CEO, offset by it being about 400lb lighter on basic model compared with basic X5.
- CEO offers 123BHP, X5 offers 231BHP (base models), up to 198 and 381BHP respectively (depending on engine/transmission configuration).
- CEO back seats do not fold down, however they do have more longitudinal travel, hence more legroom available to rear seat passengers
- No airbags in the CEO, period (I think the X5 has front and side front airbags, side bags in the rear doors). Five point restraints for front seat passengers an option, however.
- Welded roll cage in the CEO: the BMW uses a monocoque.
Sources: as stated, otherwise BBC Top Gear Magazine
until you go round the back you would swear that their BMW X5 clone was actually a BMW X5. In 2008, BMW actually lost a court case against the company that built the clone (believe it or not, that is the CLONE on the left, built by Shuanghuan and dubbed the "CEO", revealed in a side by side comparison against the BMW stand at the 2007 Frankfurt Motor Show!) simply on the grounds that the company used a Mazda chassis and sidestep! Their "Genesis" model (from 2006?) uses their own chassis with coachwork reminiscent of the S Class (right down to the grille).
Sliders already did it - customers had to answer a health questionnaire and sign a waiver for a burger.
fucked if I'm letting Facebook at it as well.
Re: your last point. I'm with Whoopi Goldberg on this one: if a woman hits a man, she should expect to be hit back. For the Law to apply it should apply to all equally, the 19th Amendment is for nought if it doesn't apply to the protection of mens rights as much as it does womens, even though it was the Suffragette Movement of the US under Alice Stokes Paul that got it ratified by 38 states in the 1960s. When the Law fails one, it fails all. Isn't that one of the bases of the United States Constitution? That All [OK, "Men"] are created Equal? A19 was pretty much intended to address that ONE SLIP in the original document.
Chess was invented back when men fought and women either stuck to the griddle or snuck into the other camp (or bared an ankle and blatantly strode in) and stuck any soldier she came across between the fourth and fifth ribs with a stiletto. Hence, the Queen can move in any direction in a straight line any number of squares.
...On that day, Alice Paul turned in her grave with such speed her crinoline caught fire.
Does Sarah Palin owe anything to the Suffragette Movement?
Yes. A big fat fucking apology.