For each 9-bit chunk of parity memory, one bit is the parity of the other eight. That means it'll be true if there are an even number of 1s among the other 8 bits, and false if there are an odd number of 1s.
The advantage to storing the parity is if any of the 8 bits is unreadable, its value can be recovered given the 7 other bits. Simple error correction.
What the hell is so funny about AOL and script kiddie jokes? The fact that frames from the Matrix were used?
IMO this is completely witless. I don't know why you guys enjoyed it so much.
Reminds me of America's Funniest Home Videos. Everybody and their dog loved hearing Bob Saget add lame and annoying dubbed-over audio to real video clips, but I always thought it was a waste of airtime.
What the hell is so funny about AOL and script kiddie jokes? The fact that frames from the Matrix were used?
IMO this is completely witless. I don't know why you guys enjoyed it so much.
Reminds me of America's Funniest Home Videos. Everybody and their dog loved hearing Bob Saget add lame and annoying dubbed-over audio to real video clips, but I always thought it was a,..
Pay many thousand$, or wait a few hours. It's your choice.
I have many relatives in Canada. One was in an accident in which the bones of his index finger were protruding from the flesh. He was in the States at the time, and the doctor said, "Well, I can have you in the operating room in half an hour." But no, he chose to return to Canada to get his health care there...the doctors in Ontario gave him a two week delay before they did anything.
That's a big fucking lie. If they "gave him a two week delay", emergency procedures and pain killers would have been administered to him first and he would have been _perfectly OK_ to wait two weeks for an operation.
Canada isn't like some kind of war torn developing nation. The only thing that makes our health system worse than yours is the fact that more $ != faster service. Everyone is equal. But that still doesn't mean I'll have to wait any more than a few hours in an ER if I really need help.
Fuck your class-system FUD. And BTW, we do have private clinics here in Alberta, so you'll feel right at home if you choose to pay exorbinant prices for marginally faster service.
What? because its old it cant be stable? hmmm, how old is Unix? Does software in your opinion "degenerate" with age?
Unix was always robust and scalable. A desktop environment written for one architecture and designed to be crammed into 1 MB of RAM (or less) is bound to have its share of hacks, hard-coded assumptions and limitations.
Anyway, Amiga is MORE than A desktop environment, it was a MICROKERNAL OS, even LINUX is not as advanced as a Microkernal OS (Linus was programming for an i386 architecture after all)
Microkernel OSes are different, not "more advanced". If AmigaOS was a microkernel OS as you claim, please explain why that's a good thing. An OS that A) runs on one architecture and B) does not support memory protection (say bye to any hope of keeping system services in the microkernel) does not NEED to be a microkernel OS. But that's besides the point. Let's be realistic and assume the only thing worth salvaging from the Amiga is the desktop environment.
Also, what the fuck does i386 have to do with whether or not you can design a microkernel OS? Flamebait?
On a sidenote... Anyone notice that linux distro's are getting closer and closer to what the Amiga used to be? (superficially anyway)
I can't believe both the transistor and the vaccuum tube made it. They're the same thing, really- solid state switches (what's this about a vaccuum tube not being solid-state?). Of course, the author has no idea what either device is- just that one is "really big and clunky" and the other is "tiny, and Spawned The Internet As We Know It(TM)".
It's not just BlackLight Power's work in bombs, rockets, and rusty ships that has the military's attention. Mills has stacks of proprietary research on artificial intelligence. In what he calls Brain Child Systems, Mills has done the math for a reasoning machine with consciousness. To advance the project, Mills may soon enter into a collaboration with the Institute for Simulation and Training at the University of Central Florida, which does the bulk of its work for the military.
So he's going to make a thinking machine too. This guy is amazing.
People like this scare me. I bet he actually believes all his wild claims.
Dot pitch only makes sense with respect to systems projected from masked CRT's. These new digital projectors project an image derived from LCD's or those reflective chip-piggyback things (can't remember the name) which both have a fixed 1:1 dot:pixel ratio.
I also must express my grave doubts that Intel will be able to ship a PIV in the year 2000. From what I've heard, they are really pushing CISC as far as it can go, and they're having a lot of engineering-type trouble (the PIV allegedly draws huge amounts of power). I really don't expect to see a stable system based on the Pentium IV until mid-2001.
People have been saying that about every Intel chip since the PPro. Quit being such a cynic, and push your "mid-2001" figure back into your ass.
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I thought I'd take this opportunity to mention there's no VMS code whatsoever in NT. Nor is it based on VMS.
However, some of the VMS team helped develop NT.
Anyway, just clearing up a common misconception. VMS->WNT, like HAL->IBM, is a coincidence.
For each 9-bit chunk of parity memory, one bit is the parity of the other eight. That means it'll be true if there are an even number of 1s among the other 8 bits, and false if there are an odd number of 1s.
The advantage to storing the parity is if any of the 8 bits is unreadable, its value can be recovered given the 7 other bits. Simple error correction.
What the hell is so funny about AOL and script kiddie jokes? The fact that frames from the Matrix were used?
IMO this is completely witless. I don't know why you guys enjoyed it so much.
Reminds me of America's Funniest Home Videos. Everybody and their dog loved hearing Bob Saget add lame and annoying dubbed-over audio to real video clips, but I always thought it was a waste of airtime.
What the hell is so funny about AOL and script kiddie jokes? The fact that frames from the Matrix were used?
,..
IMO this is completely witless. I don't know why you guys enjoyed it so much.
Reminds me of America's Funniest Home Videos. Everybody and their dog loved hearing Bob Saget add lame and annoying dubbed-over audio to real video clips, but I always thought it was a
I have many relatives in Canada. One was in an accident in which the bones of his index finger were protruding from the flesh. He was in the States at the time, and the doctor said, "Well, I can have you in the operating room in half an hour." But no, he chose to return to Canada to get his health care there...the doctors in Ontario gave him a two week delay before they did anything.
That's a big fucking lie. If they "gave him a two week delay", emergency procedures and pain killers would have been administered to him first and he would have been _perfectly OK_ to wait two weeks for an operation.
Canada isn't like some kind of war torn developing nation. The only thing that makes our health system worse than yours is the fact that more $ != faster service. Everyone is equal. But that still doesn't mean I'll have to wait any more than a few hours in an ER if I really need help.
Fuck your class-system FUD. And BTW, we do have private clinics here in Alberta, so you'll feel right at home if you choose to pay exorbinant prices for marginally faster service.
I flip pages on the right of the text... why not put a graphical scrollbar in the same location?
For me, a scrollbar on the left (xterm default, for example) induces nausea- it's like writing on the back of the page in a spiral notebook.
It's agonizingly obvious that's a server-side error.
Check out the circa-1988 "3d computer graphics"
Unix was always robust and scalable. A desktop environment written for one architecture and designed to be crammed into 1 MB of RAM (or less) is bound to have its share of hacks, hard-coded assumptions and limitations.
Anyway, Amiga is MORE than A desktop environment, it was a MICROKERNAL OS, even LINUX is not as advanced as a Microkernal OS (Linus was programming for an i386 architecture after all)
Microkernel OSes are different, not "more advanced". If AmigaOS was a microkernel OS as you claim, please explain why that's a good thing. An OS that A) runs on one architecture and B) does not support memory protection (say bye to any hope of keeping system services in the microkernel) does not NEED to be a microkernel OS. But that's besides the point. Let's be realistic and assume the only thing worth salvaging from the Amiga is the desktop environment.
Also, what the fuck does i386 have to do with whether or not you can design a microkernel OS? Flamebait?
On a sidenote... Anyone notice that linux distro's are getting closer and closer to what the Amiga used to be? (superficially anyway)
No. What are you talking about?
I can't believe both the transistor and the vaccuum tube made it. They're the same thing, really- solid state switches (what's this about a vaccuum tube not being solid-state?). Of course, the author has no idea what either device is- just that one is "really big and clunky" and the other is "tiny, and Spawned The Internet As We Know It(TM)".
1) Look at the properties for My Computer (hold down the Windows key and tap Pause for a shortcut)
2) Type ver at the MS-DOS prompt
And both run on top of DOS 7.0.
Type ver at the command prompt to see the Windows version number.
I laughed my ass off. I think the page (complete with "NEWS FLASH" in big red letters) was intended as a joke.
$ required to support other browsers > $ made by supporting users with other browsers
Remember, Citif/i is a business. Quit bitching about what's Right and Wrong.
Check out the audience.
Duh! I feel like an asshole. You're right.
50% is 50% more than 25%.
I like this.
Seriously, what the hell are you talking about?
It's not just BlackLight Power's work in bombs, rockets, and rusty ships that has the military's attention. Mills has stacks of proprietary research on artificial intelligence. In what he calls Brain Child Systems, Mills has done the math for a reasoning machine with consciousness. To advance the project, Mills may soon enter into a collaboration with the Institute for Simulation and Training at the University of Central Florida, which does the bulk of its work for the military.
So he's going to make a thinking machine too. This guy is amazing.
People like this scare me. I bet he actually believes all his wild claims.
Why do people always assume that grammatically correct Chinese translates into broken English?
Dot pitch only makes sense with respect to systems projected from masked CRT's. These new digital projectors project an image derived from LCD's or those reflective chip-piggyback things (can't remember the name) which both have a fixed 1:1 dot:pixel ratio.
10 mm would be the pixel (or cell) height.
"Pentium 13" wouldn't raise any eyebrows. However, "Pentium 666" just feels wrong.
People have been saying that about every Intel chip since the PPro. Quit being such a cynic, and push your "mid-2001" figure back into your ass.
That doesn't make any sense. What do you mean by "Python assembler"? A Python compiler, maybe?