I've had keyboards that didn't handle 3 key combinations correctly.
... which is easy to do in a game. "W" plus "D" plus "Shift" plus "Space" may be too much for some keyboards, and these types of combos are fairly common.
Hmmmmm. The difference between a cheap office chair and a luxury model can run into the hundreds.
The difference between a "decent" mouse and the top-of-the-line is not more than $100 (typically $50 or so depending on your definition of "to of the line"). If you have the money, know what you want, and have reasonable expectations, then go for it!
Nope. Gold is GREAT for cables because it resists corrosion. Tin and copper will corrode over time (ever see an old penny)? For that reason alone, it is well worth it to have gold everywhere metal touches air or metal touches metal (and moisture, especially for those who live near the ocean where salt makes things even better).
For proof, just look at the contacts on even the cheapest video card. Al PCI, PCI-E, ISA, whatever card have gold on the edge of the card, and the motherboard slots have gold too. For a budget $20 card, that is one place to shave a few pennies off -- yet this is NEVER done. Ask yourself why.
Gold does NOT improve the signal, but it sure help to make sure that you can unplug the cable without ripping the connector out after it has been plugged in for five years when you live only a couple of miles from the ocean. Do not ask me how I know this;)
This is an open platform, with a great software interface. Complete documentation that is written by the guys who made it (not some reverse-engineered stuff).
Also, try to homebrew on a NES. Guess what? You also need a cartridge with some FLASH memory on board. Those are not free. I would imagine that the homebrew "development kit" is not nearly as polished as the Arduino & Gameduino.
And, as a bonus, all data to/from the graphics engine is sipped through a SPI pipe. If you thought that old AGP 4x was slow, wait until you go through SPI.
Wait.... PCI-express is a serial protocol... SPI is a serial protocol. Doesn't that mean that they have the same performance;-)
Well, this thing is supposed to be platform-independent, so you would HAVE to go through a Google API to get any access to the hard drive. I would imagine that they would but blocks in that could stop nefarious actions. They will most likely NOT allow access to operating system calls, since the code is supposed to be able to run on any operating system.
You can have the best chip in the world but nobody will use it if they aren't properly supported.
Yup. I recently used the old Cypress PSoC that I had lying around. This is a COOL chip. It has a plethora of analog block which can be configured as an ADC, DAC, filter, amplifier, etc. It also has configurable digital blocks which can be used as SPI, serial port, PWM outputs, timers, etc. Very configurable with LOT of cool options on-chip.
However, it was a bit of a pain to program an ISR. I could see how to do an ISR in assembly. However, I was using C. How do you tell the compiler that something is an ISR? How do you insert the pointer into the vector table? I has to REALLY search for quite a while in the documentation to get a semi-straight answer to this. And after all this work, the ISR would exit for some compiles, but get locked up on other builds. Very frustrating.
The PSoC is a cool chip if you NEED those configurable blocks. I plan to teach my kids how to make a robot soon. Arduino is what I will be using, just because it appears to be much easier to use (I have never used it, but am looking forward to it).
Are you saying that an extra 12 bytes per active connection is going to overheat a processor? Assuming a 32-bit architecture, that translates to THREE extra reads per address (six per NAT entry). Seriously, these little routers are not trying to map every IP address. The just keep a table that has source/destination IP addresses and port numbers (and maybe a time stamp). That is it for NAT. Even though there may be trillions of V6 IP addresses, the router it not going to try to connect to and remember each and every one of them.
Huh? Why would older routers NOT be able to support V6 with a firmware update.
Look at it this way... Other than the usual stack, the RAM in a router is used to store NAT tables (will we still be using NAT with V6?). Well, now the size of each entry in the NAT table is longer (16 bytes instead of 4), but that is not the end of the world. Now, FLASH space to support the extra code MIGHT be an issue, but I remember the days of entire games coded is about 16K, so certainly some clever programming can overcome that. Of course, I doubt that vendors are going to want to push new firmware for their combined hundreds of models, but we can hope.
Also, people are going to eventually start dumping their old "G" routers as "N" begins to take over the market, so the trainload of waste would mostly happen anyways.
For right now, FLASH sits in-between hard drives and RAM, but much closer to hard drives. Faster than a hard drive (maybe 2x or 3x), but nowhere near the speed of real RAM, and more expensive than a hard drive (4x to 5x or so), but nowhere near the price of RAM (when measured as cost-per-bit).
All memory is measured by two things: speed and price (well, and volatility). In general, you can think of the internet is the "main memory", huge, but slow. Hard drives (and SSD) are much faster, but more expensive per bit, so you get a terrabyte of HD space. RAM is much faster, but more expensive still, so you only get a few gigs of that. L2 cache is still faster, and typically 1/2 megabyte or less. L1 cache may be 64K, but is blazingly fast. The on-processor registers are the fastest of all, but only hold a few dozen bytes.
If a memory technology is both faster AND cheaper than an existing technology, the old memory will die. Imagine if a new type of hard drive came out that was non-volatile, comparable in price to regular hard drives, but was as fast as RAM. You would pretty much eliminate RAM on your box, and just use a huge chunk of virtual memory to start with. Once the operating systems matured more, you could run the software directly off of the hard drive (the function of RAM and hard drive would have merged). No need to copy the software from the file system to the RAM, because the file system IS your RAM.
Of course, this has nothing to do with DNF, except that maybe DNF2 will be developed to run on this new super memory.
Version 3 is in fact very good, but not perfect. It seems to have problems if the client is on a system with multiple monitors. Also, I have seen crashes when I full-screen SOC-Encounter. An update/bug fix would be very welcome.
This product is simply the BEST remote software for *NIX systems, period. VNC (all flavors) runs like an absolute dog compared to NX and, depending on the program, it as times completely unusable, while NX is generally very smooth.
I am confused (being a Nook owner). Does the Kindle have contacts on the side, so that a light can leech power from the Kindle itself? If the case on the Kindle is simple, solid, unconductive plastic, this should NOT happen...
I have no problem with the "whistle blower" aspect of Wikileaks. That is one of the functions of a journalist, and I support bringing to light the fact that a government is doing something illegal or immoral.
However, Assange is NOT a journalist. Journalists are supposed to have a sense of responsibility. All Assange does is release documents no matter what they are, without apparently trying to determine if they NEED to be leaked.
For example, he released the list of sites that the US government finds to be "critical." How is this whistle blowing in any way shape or form? Isn't the government SUPPOSED to be making lists like this? Does this document show any crime? Would a "real" reporter publish this if they came across it? I would certainly hope they would not.
I am not opposed to the idea of something like Wikileaks, I just want it to be run by somebody with a little discernment about right vs. wrong.
One time in college, the professor gave out.pdf documents of the class notes. We were allowed to bring three papers with us.
Well, I had this great software that could print four pages on one piece of paper. and the HP laserjet in the lab could do the same thing -- instant 16 pages on one piece of paper. I even brought a loupe into class to help me read such tiny print. Fun days, good class.
When my wrist starting giving me trouble after mousing at home and at work, I forced myself to mouse with my left hand (and then stuck with left at work, right at home). It took about a week or two to get comfortable, but now I can use either one just fine.
It is also nice when working on a computer that belongs to somebody else, to know that I can just use the mouse no matter which side it is on.
No. The reference electrons are specially-calibrated in the lab to meet the exacting standards of the measurements industry. If you start using sub-standard electrons, you get sub-standard measurements.
I have personally seen the effects of creating matter using electrons with a charge of -0.93 instead of the usual -1. The matter that we were shipping had a net positive charge, so we had to include EXTRA electrons in the order so that the USP guy what not fatally electrocuted when he picked up the box. Do you have any idea how much those extra electrons cost my company?
Please do not even get me started about cut-rate protons. What happens when heavy water is not quite so heavy? You don't even want to know.
They ARE heroes. They know that they could die in the line of duty, and they do what has to be done anyways (extra pay does not matter). We need policemen and firemen (anybody who suggests otherwise just needs to look no further than Somalia). We do NOT have to have mountain climbers to function as a society. I admire their bravery, but mountain climbers are doing it for themselves and as such are not heroes.
Really, are they so threatened by a 30-year-old operating system that they have to kill it?
This is the ONE reason that I hate Apple. Wonderful hardware, great software, management needs to be shot. I am a geek. If somebody arbitrarily decrees that certain classes of software WILL NOT be allowed on a platform, I arbitrarily decree that they get absolutely none of my money.
If Apple would have a change of heart about such things, I would be their biggest fan. As it is, I am their worst foe.
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Hmmmmm. The difference between a cheap office chair and a luxury model can run into the hundreds.
The difference between a "decent" mouse and the top-of-the-line is not more than $100 (typically $50 or so depending on your definition of "to of the line"). If you have the money, know what you want, and have reasonable expectations, then go for it!
Nope. Gold is GREAT for cables because it resists corrosion. Tin and copper will corrode over time (ever see an old penny)? For that reason alone, it is well worth it to have gold everywhere metal touches air or metal touches metal (and moisture, especially for those who live near the ocean where salt makes things even better).
For proof, just look at the contacts on even the cheapest video card. Al PCI, PCI-E, ISA, whatever card have gold on the edge of the card, and the motherboard slots have gold too. For a budget $20 card, that is one place to shave a few pennies off -- yet this is NEVER done. Ask yourself why.
Gold does NOT improve the signal, but it sure help to make sure that you can unplug the cable without ripping the connector out after it has been plugged in for five years when you live only a couple of miles from the ocean. Do not ask me how I know this ;)
This is an open platform, with a great software interface. Complete documentation that is written by the guys who made it (not some reverse-engineered stuff).
Also, try to homebrew on a NES. Guess what? You also need a cartridge with some FLASH memory on board. Those are not free. I would imagine that the homebrew "development kit" is not nearly as polished as the Arduino & Gameduino.
And, as a bonus, all data to/from the graphics engine is sipped through a SPI pipe. If you thought that old AGP 4x was slow, wait until you go through SPI.
Wait.... PCI-express is a serial protocol... SPI is a serial protocol. Doesn't that mean that they have the same performance ;-)
Well, this thing is supposed to be platform-independent, so you would HAVE to go through a Google API to get any access to the hard drive. I would imagine that they would but blocks in that could stop nefarious actions. They will most likely NOT allow access to operating system calls, since the code is supposed to be able to run on any operating system.
Yup. I recently used the old Cypress PSoC that I had lying around. This is a COOL chip. It has a plethora of analog block which can be configured as an ADC, DAC, filter, amplifier, etc. It also has configurable digital blocks which can be used as SPI, serial port, PWM outputs, timers, etc. Very configurable with LOT of cool options on-chip.
However, it was a bit of a pain to program an ISR. I could see how to do an ISR in assembly. However, I was using C. How do you tell the compiler that something is an ISR? How do you insert the pointer into the vector table? I has to REALLY search for quite a while in the documentation to get a semi-straight answer to this. And after all this work, the ISR would exit for some compiles, but get locked up on other builds. Very frustrating.
The PSoC is a cool chip if you NEED those configurable blocks. I plan to teach my kids how to make a robot soon. Arduino is what I will be using, just because it appears to be much easier to use (I have never used it, but am looking forward to it).
Are you saying that an extra 12 bytes per active connection is going to overheat a processor? Assuming a 32-bit architecture, that translates to THREE extra reads per address (six per NAT entry). Seriously, these little routers are not trying to map every IP address. The just keep a table that has source/destination IP addresses and port numbers (and maybe a time stamp). That is it for NAT. Even though there may be trillions of V6 IP addresses, the router it not going to try to connect to and remember each and every one of them.
Huh? Why would older routers NOT be able to support V6 with a firmware update.
Look at it this way... Other than the usual stack, the RAM in a router is used to store NAT tables (will we still be using NAT with V6?). Well, now the size of each entry in the NAT table is longer (16 bytes instead of 4), but that is not the end of the world. Now, FLASH space to support the extra code MIGHT be an issue, but I remember the days of entire games coded is about 16K, so certainly some clever programming can overcome that. Of course, I doubt that vendors are going to want to push new firmware for their combined hundreds of models, but we can hope.
Also, people are going to eventually start dumping their old "G" routers as "N" begins to take over the market, so the trainload of waste would mostly happen anyways.
For right now, FLASH sits in-between hard drives and RAM, but much closer to hard drives. Faster than a hard drive (maybe 2x or 3x), but nowhere near the speed of real RAM, and more expensive than a hard drive (4x to 5x or so), but nowhere near the price of RAM (when measured as cost-per-bit).
All memory is measured by two things: speed and price (well, and volatility). In general, you can think of the internet is the "main memory", huge, but slow. Hard drives (and SSD) are much faster, but more expensive per bit, so you get a terrabyte of HD space. RAM is much faster, but more expensive still, so you only get a few gigs of that. L2 cache is still faster, and typically 1/2 megabyte or less. L1 cache may be 64K, but is blazingly fast. The on-processor registers are the fastest of all, but only hold a few dozen bytes.
If a memory technology is both faster AND cheaper than an existing technology, the old memory will die. Imagine if a new type of hard drive came out that was non-volatile, comparable in price to regular hard drives, but was as fast as RAM. You would pretty much eliminate RAM on your box, and just use a huge chunk of virtual memory to start with. Once the operating systems matured more, you could run the software directly off of the hard drive (the function of RAM and hard drive would have merged). No need to copy the software from the file system to the RAM, because the file system IS your RAM.
Of course, this has nothing to do with DNF, except that maybe DNF2 will be developed to run on this new super memory.
Version 3 is in fact very good, but not perfect. It seems to have problems if the client is on a system with multiple monitors. Also, I have seen crashes when I full-screen SOC-Encounter. An update/bug fix would be very welcome.
This product is simply the BEST remote software for *NIX systems, period. VNC (all flavors) runs like an absolute dog compared to NX and, depending on the program, it as times completely unusable, while NX is generally very smooth.
I am confused (being a Nook owner). Does the Kindle have contacts on the side, so that a light can leech power from the Kindle itself? If the case on the Kindle is simple, solid, unconductive plastic, this should NOT happen...
Perhaps, but Hackers has a **MUCH** better soundtrack. I still love that CD to this day...
Sorry to reply to myself.
IMDB link is HERE
I was also EXTREMELY shocked that the region-1 DVD is going for over $100! (region-2 much more reasonably priced for some reason)
You want computer realism in an 80's movie???
Electric Dreams
Good movie, but I remember the soundtrack begin great, with two great songs by Culture Club (cue the laughter at my expense now)...
Ass clown bailed by ass clown.
I have no problem with the "whistle blower" aspect of Wikileaks. That is one of the functions of a journalist, and I support bringing to light the fact that a government is doing something illegal or immoral.
However, Assange is NOT a journalist. Journalists are supposed to have a sense of responsibility. All Assange does is release documents no matter what they are, without apparently trying to determine if they NEED to be leaked.
For example, he released the list of sites that the US government finds to be "critical." How is this whistle blowing in any way shape or form? Isn't the government SUPPOSED to be making lists like this? Does this document show any crime? Would a "real" reporter publish this if they came across it? I would certainly hope they would not.
I am not opposed to the idea of something like Wikileaks, I just want it to be run by somebody with a little discernment about right vs. wrong.
Isotopes of Chromium
48 is an unstable isotope of Chromium with a half-life of less than a day.
The PICTURES show it as black. With a name like "chrome," shouldn't it at least be shiny?
One time in college, the professor gave out .pdf documents of the class notes. We were allowed to bring three papers with us.
Well, I had this great software that could print four pages on one piece of paper. and the HP laserjet in the lab could do the same thing -- instant 16 pages on one piece of paper. I even brought a loupe into class to help me read such tiny print. Fun days, good class.
When my wrist starting giving me trouble after mousing at home and at work, I forced myself to mouse with my left hand (and then stuck with left at work, right at home). It took about a week or two to get comfortable, but now I can use either one just fine.
It is also nice when working on a computer that belongs to somebody else, to know that I can just use the mouse no matter which side it is on.
They smell bad even when alive.
No. The reference electrons are specially-calibrated in the lab to meet the exacting standards of the measurements industry. If you start using sub-standard electrons, you get sub-standard measurements.
I have personally seen the effects of creating matter using electrons with a charge of -0.93 instead of the usual -1. The matter that we were shipping had a net positive charge, so we had to include EXTRA electrons in the order so that the USP guy what not fatally electrocuted when he picked up the box. Do you have any idea how much those extra electrons cost my company?
Please do not even get me started about cut-rate protons. What happens when heavy water is not quite so heavy? You don't even want to know.
They ARE heroes. They know that they could die in the line of duty, and they do what has to be done anyways (extra pay does not matter). We need policemen and firemen (anybody who suggests otherwise just needs to look no further than Somalia). We do NOT have to have mountain climbers to function as a society. I admire their bravery, but mountain climbers are doing it for themselves and as such are not heroes.
Really, are they so threatened by a 30-year-old operating system that they have to kill it?
This is the ONE reason that I hate Apple. Wonderful hardware, great software, management needs to be shot. I am a geek. If somebody arbitrarily decrees that certain classes of software WILL NOT be allowed on a platform, I arbitrarily decree that they get absolutely none of my money.
If Apple would have a change of heart about such things, I would be their biggest fan. As it is, I am their worst foe.
Kind of hard at home when your ISP only gives you one single IP address.
Now, you might have a point when IPv6 is actually used and IP addresses are almost free.