For programs like MATLAB, the maximum amount of memory you can use for a session is more like 1GB under 32-bit windows. Funnily enough the same is not true for 64-bit Windows, or 32-bit Linux versions.
In Windows, one can invoke feature('memstats') to see just how much memory is available.
Of course it's not nearly as big a problem as it could be here, since no tech-savvy person, running a business or otherwise, would ever have internet banking set up with any level of access other than read-only, except perhaps for a small number of pre-approved payees.
or feedback speakers in nearby spaceships picking up radiation signatures from engines and ordinance fire.
I like to think that those headphones Han and Luke donned weren't just for chatting with each other. If I were designing a small space-fighter I'd probably kit it out with antenna tuned to common engine types and build a 3d-field stereo headset in the helmet. And not just for listening to oggs in hyperspace.
I don't really know about clones, but the conscript thing was definitely there from the beginning. Luke, after all, was set on joining the Imperial Academy. This is spelled out more clearly in the deleted ANH "Biggs Tells Luke About The Rebellion" scene (which also interestingly enough allures to the Empire being somewhat socialist).
With Lucas' revisionist view of history I'm less inclined to believe what he says these days:(
Those things could be problems if Star Wars was Science Fiction. But Star Wars never was. It's Fantasy, or perhaps Science Fantasy if such a genre were to be defined.
I think when they say that, they mean (or at least the original intention was) the maximum current that the voltage source can supply.
If a source that is 1kV open-circuit but can only supply 10mA then you're probably quite safe interacting with it. A 240V source designed to supply that voltage at up to 10A is another story, however.
I'm pretty sure you're using the wrong word there. i4i weren't actually deprived of anything were they? And if you say "profit" or "a secret", then I'm going to conclude that you must also support calling copyright infringement "theft".
As someone else has mentioned here, this is a replica of an antique computer. Which set me wondering again, what other working antique computers are out there? Particularly dawn-of-the era mainframes like ENIAC. Has any eccentric millionaire with his own hydro-electric power station built one? Or any vacuum-tube operated computer for that matter.
I did a fairly intensive search a few months ago and came up with nothing.
I'm not going to delve into the horrible unsustainability of everybody throwing away a computer every few years, but will instead argue from a performance point of view.
Your argument would have merit, if it weren't for the observation that newer software coming out barely works on up to date hardware. Developers seem to have this mentality that if their own application works on a target platform, with nothing else running, then it's good enough.
I really don't like this mindset at all, and think it entirely inappropriate in this age of multi-tasking operating systems.
If the devs were made to test their software on 10 year old hardware, then perhaps their products would work acceptably on 5 year old hardware.
I guess I'm just frustrated that a word processor takes about 5 times as long to load in 2009 as one did in 1992.
I don't think that's the case, at least with the SMS-II. Alex Kidd in Miracle World, the built-in game, used the Pause button to access the inventory screen.
The SMS-II has a much better design though, IMO. Big pause button, and no reset button. Still would be nice to see it on the hand control though, like the other consoles.
I don't know, but do the current ATi drivers manage to sync to vertical refresh correctly? I've never gotten it to work on a TV output with ATi chips. No problem with the nVidia driver.
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I looked at your post for some time before deciding to reply, but I'm curious as to exactly what your point is.
Are you suggesting that the very act of picking up a book, smelling the paper, pausing at the turn of each page, and finishing each chapter with a brandy is the only way one can properly assimilate a literary work?
Some people might really want to read novels but might lack the time for dedicating a day and a half to staring at nothing but inky markings between meals and cigars. I'm all for taking time to smell the flowers, but prefer taking the time myself rather than having it forced upon me by artificial limitations.
Personally I have no problem with listening to audio-books, once I've gotten used to the voice as the OP mentioned. Then again I also don't mind listening to pre-recorded music *without* being in the presence of the original band, so what do I know?
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Except for all those lovely registers on AMD64 processors that you can't get near unless you're running in 64-bit mode.
For programs like MATLAB, the maximum amount of memory you can use for a session is more like 1GB under 32-bit windows. Funnily enough the same is not true for 64-bit Windows, or 32-bit Linux versions.
In Windows, one can invoke feature('memstats') to see just how much memory is available.
Of course it's not nearly as big a problem as it could be here, since no tech-savvy person, running a business or otherwise, would ever have internet banking set up with any level of access other than read-only, except perhaps for a small number of pre-approved payees.
Ever.
Similar installations have been deployed where I live, and have already had one major benefit:
Fewer people are taking cars in to town.
Though I'm not sure the local retailers share my enthusiasm on that one.
or feedback speakers in nearby spaceships picking up radiation signatures from engines and ordinance fire.
I like to think that those headphones Han and Luke donned weren't just for chatting with each other. If I were designing a small space-fighter I'd probably kit it out with antenna tuned to common engine types and build a 3d-field stereo headset in the helmet. And not just for listening to oggs in hyperspace.
... anyone here needed more reasons not to support Microsoft products.
I don't really know about clones, but the conscript thing was definitely there from the beginning. Luke, after all, was set on joining the Imperial Academy. This is spelled out more clearly in the deleted ANH "Biggs Tells Luke About The Rebellion" scene (which also interestingly enough allures to the Empire being somewhat socialist).
With Lucas' revisionist view of history I'm less inclined to believe what he says these days :(
Those things could be problems if Star Wars was Science Fiction. But Star Wars never was. It's Fantasy, or perhaps Science Fantasy if such a genre were to be defined.
With a GUI?
I think when they say that, they mean (or at least the original intention was) the maximum current that the voltage source can supply.
If a source that is 1kV open-circuit but can only supply 10mA then you're probably quite safe interacting with it. A 240V source designed to supply that voltage at up to 10A is another story, however.
By that definition, i4i is a patent troll
Except for that whole "without contributing anything to the real advancement of the arts" part.
The whole mega-sport-corp thing strikes me as utterly ludicrous. Does anyone here remember when sport was about the actual game?
As far as I can tell it all started going downhill as soon as some guy figured out he could make money off sporting events.
What did they steal, exactly?
I'm pretty sure you're using the wrong word there. i4i weren't actually deprived of anything were they? And if you say "profit" or "a secret", then I'm going to conclude that you must also support calling copyright infringement "theft".
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Where? And do we need to bring our own cups?
As someone else has mentioned here, this is a replica of an antique computer. Which set me wondering again, what other working antique computers are out there? Particularly dawn-of-the era mainframes like ENIAC. Has any eccentric millionaire with his own hydro-electric power station built one? Or any vacuum-tube operated computer for that matter.
I did a fairly intensive search a few months ago and came up with nothing.
I think you've just summed up what's wrong with the POSIX spec.
I'm not going to delve into the horrible unsustainability of everybody throwing away a computer every few years, but will instead argue from a performance point of view.
Your argument would have merit, if it weren't for the observation that newer software coming out barely works on up to date hardware. Developers seem to have this mentality that if their own application works on a target platform, with nothing else running, then it's good enough.
I really don't like this mindset at all, and think it entirely inappropriate in this age of multi-tasking operating systems.
If the devs were made to test their software on 10 year old hardware, then perhaps their products would work acceptably on 5 year old hardware.
I guess I'm just frustrated that a word processor takes about 5 times as long to load in 2009 as one did in 1992.
Well let's see:
Here's Pi with a hat:
Nope, still broken.
I don't think that's the case, at least with the SMS-II. Alex Kidd in Miracle World, the built-in game, used the Pause button to access the inventory screen.
The SMS-II has a much better design though, IMO. Big pause button, and no reset button. Still would be nice to see it on the hand control though, like the other consoles.
Was your second email a response to an offer for a product to solve your little, er, problem?
Who modded this troll? HDCP is a DRM evil that needs to be eradicated, and no one here should support it in any way, shape or form.
I don't know, but do the current ATi drivers manage to sync to vertical refresh correctly? I've never gotten it to work on a TV output with ATi chips. No problem with the nVidia driver.
I looked at your post for some time before deciding to reply, but I'm curious as to exactly what your point is.
Are you suggesting that the very act of picking up a book, smelling the paper, pausing at the turn of each page, and finishing each chapter with a brandy is the only way one can properly assimilate a literary work?
Some people might really want to read novels but might lack the time for dedicating a day and a half to staring at nothing but inky markings between meals and cigars. I'm all for taking time to smell the flowers, but prefer taking the time myself rather than having it forced upon me by artificial limitations.
Personally I have no problem with listening to audio-books, once I've gotten used to the voice as the OP mentioned. Then again I also don't mind listening to pre-recorded music *without* being in the presence of the original band, so what do I know?
I don't really feel like reading your whole post, sorry. Feeling a little blue today.
And there we have it. Possibly one of the best out-of-context quotes of all time:
"Hardware must be paid for, but software is something to share"
Bill Gates, 1976
I think I'm going to print that out and have it framed.