According to Hollywood, you can totally destroy any american car in a huge fireball by merely scratching the paintwork. Even the yellow school buses explode if driven into a concrete block wall at approximately 15 miles per hour.
By comparison I have a picture of a London bus in a newspaper that drove off an overpass and landed on its nose (standing vertically), which just cracked a headlight and bruised the driver. You guys really shouldn't put your fuel tanks in the bumpers!
Does have recent residency/visiting requirements. If you have been out of the country for X years without visiting, you don't get to vote. After all, I might know who the prime minister is (nice lady - chatted to her once) but I would not know who the local MP is in the area I lived in so many years ago.
Perhaps it will be useful when it is capable of performing trivial tasks as assigned in IT intro courses (which my auntie is taking to improve her salary) such as:
Open a.doc file. The formatting should look correct.
Save a.doc file. Information should not be lost.
Copy and paste from an Internet Explorer window that contains selected check boxes and radio buttons. The data should look the same.
Unfortunately somehow the program got installed on her system and "stole" the.doc file extension association (hidden by default of course) causing days of lost time getting her assignments submitted.
Obscure file formats and clipboard formats pay dividends for MS lockout it seems. It's a pity monopolies are allowed to do whatever they want in the USA.
There are braille readers you know. A programmer at my last job used internet explorer with a few wierd pieces of equipment (one of which looked like an Enigma machine).
Are people forced to move from their homes due to astronomical property taxes where you are?
Yup, pensioners are - the council tax in many areas of the UK is quite high e.g. a band D house in croydon (68001...88000 pounds - 1 bedroom flat in poor location) would be 1086.47 per year. In a slightly better location a flat in the suburbs (128000 pounds=$223,000) costs 1569.34 in tax per year ($2,734.52 USD)
How much is the property tax in US suburbs?
Of course I find it odd when fully detached houses in e.g. south central los angeles are described as "slums". Such houses cost over $500,000 in croydon.
Well I'm sure I played with a D-pad on game-and-watch in 1982. So after 21 years by all rights a patent should have expired. But it doesn't seem to work that way in the USA (hell, someone was awarded the patent for bar-codes in the 1990s!)
Well, C and C++ define byte == character == minimum addressable storage unit capable of holding the source character set, and numbers -127 to +127 (allowing for 1s complement machines).
So 8 bits, 9 bits, 16 bits etc. is fine.
On my current C compiler a char happens to be 16 bit:-) It does not support octets in any way (I have to use shifts or bitfields to pack stuff in).
And of course ISO 10646/Unicode supports about a million code points (IIRC Java can only be bothered with the first 65536).
Um not to be picky but Madras is not only a city rather than a state these days (it is in Tamil Nadu) but has been renamed to Chennai. Of course no Indian restaurant has changed their menu yet AFAIK:-)
Or do you live near the state of Little Rock?
BTW now that Bombay is called "Mumbai", do their films now come from "Mullywood?"
OK, I looked up the article. It was by Tim Patterson (the creator of MS-DOS) in 1983, just as Microsoft wrote their own version of MS-DOS (2.0) that included support for subdirectories. It describes FAT as a fairly simple system.
However, (from the web) apparently the actual format is based both on CP/M (the 8.3 naming convention) and the FAT system used by Bill Gates and Marc McDonald in 1977 for Microsoft's Disk BASIC (NCR standalone version).
IIRC the C64 (1541) disk format by comparison uses linked lists and a bitmap of allocated sectors, rather than keeping the links in a centralised table.
That link was because I couldn't find a link to the article on FAT but I have it at home in the "best of byte" book. Hopefully I can check that to see if FAT was with DOS 1.0 (QDOS) or if it came later (i.e. from Microsoft).
Cameras etc. don't seem to use long filenames much but they would probably need bigger clusters than the original FAT (FAT12?) supported.
Saint-Saens #3 (organ). Mind you that needs an orchestra as well as the organ. And good timing to keep them in sync (some organs have 2 seconds lag time).
Bach's Tocatta and Fugue in D minor is cool but not so booming (I do like the Gyruss remix though).
I agree though, much better (comparatively cleaner mainly) than the trains
Woah, I read that spending an hour on the tube is equivalent to smoking a pack of 20 cigarettes. The tube smell (carbon particles?) is why I prefer to walk from Charing Cross rather than use the tube.
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Well, partly the same reason they need bigger shirts and trousers - McDonalds, Denneys, KFC, Dunkin' Donuts....
By comparison I have a picture of a London bus in a newspaper that drove off an overpass and landed on its nose (standing vertically), which just cracked a headlight and bruised the driver. You guys really shouldn't put your fuel tanks in the bumpers!
Does have recent residency/visiting requirements. If you have been out of the country for X years without visiting, you don't get to vote. After all, I might know who the prime minister is (nice lady - chatted to her once) but I would not know who the local MP is in the area I lived in so many years ago.
But I heard that when HURD comes out in 2038, it will only support 64K of RAM and reel-to-reel tapes...
Unfortunately somehow the program got installed on her system and "stole" the .doc file extension association (hidden by default of course) causing days of lost time getting her assignments submitted.
Obscure file formats and clipboard formats pay dividends for MS lockout it seems. It's a pity monopolies are allowed to do whatever they want in the USA.
In neverending story the hero goes back and takes care of the small-time bad guys after saving the world. And that was a fun movie adaption.
There are braille readers you know. A programmer at my last job used internet explorer with a few wierd pieces of equipment (one of which looked like an Enigma machine).
Which is why I have a non-default colour scheme for my windows. Popups stand out like a sore thumb.
Yup, pensioners are - the council tax in many areas of the UK is quite high e.g. a band D house in croydon (68001...88000 pounds - 1 bedroom flat in poor location) would be 1086.47 per year. In a slightly better location a flat in the suburbs (128000 pounds=$223,000) costs 1569.34 in tax per year ($2,734.52 USD)
How much is the property tax in US suburbs?
Of course I find it odd when fully detached houses in e.g. south central los angeles are described as "slums". Such houses cost over $500,000 in croydon.
I spotted a nasty bug in it recently even though they've had years to get it working.
Well I'm sure I played with a D-pad on game-and-watch in 1982. So after 21 years by all rights a patent should have expired. But it doesn't seem to work that way in the USA (hell, someone was awarded the patent for bar-codes in the 1990s!)
So 8 bits, 9 bits, 16 bits etc. is fine.
On my current C compiler a char happens to be 16 bit :-) It does not support octets in any way (I have to use shifts or bitfields to pack stuff in).
And of course ISO 10646/Unicode supports about a million code points (IIRC Java can only be bothered with the first 65536).
Or do you live near the state of Little Rock?
BTW now that Bombay is called "Mumbai", do their films now come from "Mullywood?"
Post that on comp.lang.c++ and read the replies then!
You and your fancy pants 32 bit chips :-)
You could remap "c:\really stupid long pathname with spaces that confuses gnu programs\user name" to "i:" or something like that :-)
However, (from the web) apparently the actual format is based both on CP/M (the 8.3 naming convention) and the FAT system used by Bill Gates and Marc McDonald in 1977 for Microsoft's Disk BASIC (NCR standalone version).
IIRC the C64 (1541) disk format by comparison uses linked lists and a bitmap of allocated sectors, rather than keeping the links in a centralised table.
Dang APL! Trust it to be different!
640 bytes should be enough for anyone!
Pac-man ran fine... :-)
That link was because I couldn't find a link to the article on FAT but I have it at home in the "best of byte" book. Hopefully I can check that to see if FAT was with DOS 1.0 (QDOS) or if it came later (i.e. from Microsoft).
Cameras etc. don't seem to use long filenames much but they would probably need bigger clusters than the original FAT (FAT12?) supported.
It's not like Microsoft even invented the format...
Bach's Tocatta and Fugue in D minor is cool but not so booming (I do like the Gyruss remix though).
Wasn't he famous for giving lectures to an empty room?
Woah, I read that spending an hour on the tube is equivalent to smoking a pack of 20 cigarettes. The tube smell (carbon particles?) is why I prefer to walk from Charing Cross rather than use the tube.
You mean from Malibu to Anaheim?