Sadly, most people just ignore any console that doesnt have at least a 10% marketshare. Sometimes that is a good thing *cough*ngage*cough*, but other times you get imbeciles posting about great consoles like the GP2x (which i owned, and developed for, until mine was stolen).
I recall reading, and it was almost certainly pure rumor, that the entire process of licensing and acquiring a dev kit would cost as little as $2000. Right here on slashdot, actually, and I replied that I would go for that price in a heartbeat. It wasn't official, but it was a popular rumor.
I am going to guess that it has always been an issue, but a minor one. Say each liftoff there is a 1% chance of the foam causing a problem. After a few dozen flights of safely ignoring it... BOOM. Now that exact same 1% seems too high, so they try to reduce the danger.
You assume he entered into a license agreement, why? Ignoring the legality of EULAs for now, what if he never bought or used Express at all? Maybe he wrote his software legitimately under the license for non-Express versions, and it just happens to work on Express?
Does your Tivo let you use bittorrent to automagically download new episodes of shows that don't air in your market? Or choose codecs and options to *REALLY* compress archived content, for long term storage?
Is this supposed to be funny? TFA explicitly states that anything produced by the new equation editor, which can't output to MathML, is unusable for multiple reasons including DRM.
I am going to hazard a guess that the two blacks are both grounds and the red and yellow are opposite signals, one for when the switch is pressed and one for when it isnt. This opens up more possible uses, since some hardware wants momentary-open for reset instead of the PC standard of momentary-close.
Alloys do not melt or ignite at any predictable function of their components' melting or ignition temperatures. Field's metal is the most fun eample of this, due to it's melting point of only 144F, despite all of its component metals having melting points above 300F. Magnesium+Aluminum might not burn at all, or it might only ignite at 3000C, or it might ignite at 300C.
Say you've got a Flash device that really and truly only can handle the oft-quoted 100,000 erase cycles. Quality Flash should actually be better than that these days, though some of it is apparently rather worse.
If your Flash device is "4GB" with a formatted capacity of 3900MiB, and you do nothing but write to it as fast as you can - at, say, 30MB/s - you'll still only be able to replace its entire contents every 130 seconds. At that rate, it'll take you 150 days to hit 100,000 cycles. - Dan (corrected for spelling)
Extrapolate to 20GB, and buy some decent quality flash guaranteed for 200k write cycles, add a dash of write-balancing filesystem magic, voila, 4 years before the drive starts to fail if you are doing nothing but writing to it at high speed all day every day. I don't know many people who put that kind of load on their drives, so let's call it an even 24 years with an average of 4 hours a day of full speed writing. So, what was that about "several years"?
This is why I consider paypal accounts as disposable. When someone un-sends money to my account it forces the balance negative and I just abandon it. So many ebay scammers do this, buy an item then claim their account was hacked or their card was stolen. I would imagine it far outweighs the number of people who actually have their cards stolen.
I asked for an IP. What I got was an IP, *PLUS* the router volunteered to give me a gateway and dns server to use to access the internet. That sounds like permission to me.
The summary did not say identical, it said no sign of a male parent. That doesn't mean that every gene was the same, just that every gene was a valid result of the mother's two chromosomes. If the mother is AA and the child is AB, then we would have reason to suspect another parent.
I bear that onus by asking the router "Can I use your network?", to which it replies "Sure, here's your IP, and you can use this IP as a Gateway". That doesnt sound like "I don't know" to me, it sounds more like "Yes".
I know we all love analogies around here, and most of them are pretty off the wall, so let me see if I can come up with a more direct correlation to all the parts of the "crime" here.
Your front yard has a water fountain sitting next to the sidewalk. You pay for the water. The fountain only works by use of a key. But you have a machine sitting next to the fountain that produces a key for anyone who presses a button labelled "Press here to request access to water fountain". Am I committing a crime by pressing the button and then drinking the water?
No, 6 bits per element would give you only 190 different colors. 64 shades of red, including black, and 63 shades of green and blue, not including the presumably identical black. To get 256Ki colors you have to dither those 190 colors. That is what *ALL* color monitors do. The issue here is that if I have a monitor with 1 red element, 1 blue element, and 1 green element, all 8-bit, I can advertise it as a 3 element display with 766 colors, or a 1 element display with 16Mi colors. What I can't do is advertise it as a 3 element display with "millions of colors", which is what Apple did. They claimed the base 18-bit resolution, but then made color claims based on combining adjacent elements to make more colors.
Your parent is referring to the fact that the R, G, and B elements on a LCD are distinct. Each one can show 256 different shades. Sub-pixel rendering in software actually takes advantage of this, stealing 1/3 of a pixel off the sides of adjacent pixels to get better rendering. Mixing 3 elements of different colors to get a white spot is no different than what Apple is doing... EXCEPT that LCD's arent advertised with R+G+B resolution, each group of 3 elements is counted as a single pixel. Apple combined elements WITHOUT decreasing the resolution.
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Sadly, most people just ignore any console that doesnt have at least a 10% marketshare. Sometimes that is a good thing *cough*ngage*cough*, but other times you get imbeciles posting about great consoles like the GP2x (which i owned, and developed for, until mine was stolen).
I recall reading, and it was almost certainly pure rumor, that the entire process of licensing and acquiring a dev kit would cost as little as $2000. Right here on slashdot, actually, and I replied that I would go for that price in a heartbeat. It wasn't official, but it was a popular rumor.
I am going to guess that it has always been an issue, but a minor one. Say each liftoff there is a 1% chance of the foam causing a problem. After a few dozen flights of safely ignoring it... BOOM. Now that exact same 1% seems too high, so they try to reduce the danger.
Good to know... but that still doesn't mean he every purchased Express. He could easily have done that bit of development on someone else's computer.
You assume he entered into a license agreement, why? Ignoring the legality of EULAs for now, what if he never bought or used Express at all? Maybe he wrote his software legitimately under the license for non-Express versions, and it just happens to work on Express?
Does your Tivo let you use bittorrent to automagically download new episodes of shows that don't air in your market? Or choose codecs and options to *REALLY* compress archived content, for long term storage?
Is this supposed to be funny? TFA explicitly states that anything produced by the new equation editor, which can't output to MathML, is unusable for multiple reasons including DRM.
I am going to hazard a guess that the two blacks are both grounds and the red and yellow are opposite signals, one for when the switch is pressed and one for when it isnt. This opens up more possible uses, since some hardware wants momentary-open for reset instead of the PC standard of momentary-close.
Since I browse with Funny=-3, that would definitely weed out the garbage pretty fast.
You mean as in "OMFG, Windows XP *STILL* requires a floppy disk to install RAID/SCSI drivers?"
Unless the revision or the whole article gets deleted.
I am going to assume that it means "in the late 1910s, which is much earlier than the 2007 date for the world at large".
Alloys do not melt or ignite at any predictable function of their components' melting or ignition temperatures. Field's metal is the most fun eample of this, due to it's melting point of only 144F, despite all of its component metals having melting points above 300F. Magnesium+Aluminum might not burn at all, or it might only ignite at 3000C, or it might ignite at 300C.
Magnesium in a proper alloy for a computer case is rather difficult to ignite.
If your Flash device is "4GB" with a formatted capacity of 3900MiB, and you do nothing but write to it as fast as you can - at, say, 30MB/s - you'll still only be able to replace its entire contents every 130 seconds. At that rate, it'll take you 150 days to hit 100,000 cycles. - Dan (corrected for spelling)
Extrapolate to 20GB, and buy some decent quality flash guaranteed for 200k write cycles, add a dash of write-balancing filesystem magic, voila, 4 years before the drive starts to fail if you are doing nothing but writing to it at high speed all day every day. I don't know many people who put that kind of load on their drives, so let's call it an even 24 years with an average of 4 hours a day of full speed writing. So, what was that about "several years"?
I am pretty sure that simply mentioning Godwin's Law invokes Godwin's Law.
This is why I consider paypal accounts as disposable. When someone un-sends money to my account it forces the balance negative and I just abandon it. So many ebay scammers do this, buy an item then claim their account was hacked or their card was stolen. I would imagine it far outweighs the number of people who actually have their cards stolen.
I asked for an IP. What I got was an IP, *PLUS* the router volunteered to give me a gateway and dns server to use to access the internet. That sounds like permission to me.
The summary did not say identical, it said no sign of a male parent. That doesn't mean that every gene was the same, just that every gene was a valid result of the mother's two chromosomes. If the mother is AA and the child is AB, then we would have reason to suspect another parent.
I bear that onus by asking the router "Can I use your network?", to which it replies "Sure, here's your IP, and you can use this IP as a Gateway". That doesnt sound like "I don't know" to me, it sounds more like "Yes".
I know we all love analogies around here, and most of them are pretty off the wall, so let me see if I can come up with a more direct correlation to all the parts of the "crime" here.
Your front yard has a water fountain sitting next to the sidewalk. You pay for the water. The fountain only works by use of a key. But you have a machine sitting next to the fountain that produces a key for anyone who presses a button labelled "Press here to request access to water fountain". Am I committing a crime by pressing the button and then drinking the water?
Sadly, beating on a helpless kid is usually a 3 day suspension for both parties these days. If it even gets reported/caught, that is. :(
No, 6 bits per element would give you only 190 different colors. 64 shades of red, including black, and 63 shades of green and blue, not including the presumably identical black. To get 256Ki colors you have to dither those 190 colors. That is what *ALL* color monitors do. The issue here is that if I have a monitor with 1 red element, 1 blue element, and 1 green element, all 8-bit, I can advertise it as a 3 element display with 766 colors, or a 1 element display with 16Mi colors. What I can't do is advertise it as a 3 element display with "millions of colors", which is what Apple did. They claimed the base 18-bit resolution, but then made color claims based on combining adjacent elements to make more colors.
Your parent is referring to the fact that the R, G, and B elements on a LCD are distinct. Each one can show 256 different shades. Sub-pixel rendering in software actually takes advantage of this, stealing 1/3 of a pixel off the sides of adjacent pixels to get better rendering. Mixing 3 elements of different colors to get a white spot is no different than what Apple is doing... EXCEPT that LCD's arent advertised with R+G+B resolution, each group of 3 elements is counted as a single pixel. Apple combined elements WITHOUT decreasing the resolution.
Two years from now? Almost everyone. :)
WTF is the "Game 3.0 Economy"? Did someone hear "Web 2.0" and think it was a cool buzzword to hijack?