If I fall into the anomaly category without cheating, I'll be screwed. What can I demonstrate in my defense? Not much.
But this is good. Kids should learn that in the real world they'll be arbitrarily punished for doing well merely to further the career of the person they're working for.
with a gas fueled car, when the saudis decide you are paying $5/ gallon so they can send more money to islamic militant causes, you have no choice.
If you're American, surely you mean 'when the Canadians decide you are paying $5/gallon so they can send more money to hockey teams and French speaking welfare cases'?
You do realise that America gets twice as much oil from Canada as from Saudi, right?
We're not talking about people scrapping their fifteen year old SUV and buying a crappy 'city car', but having to buy a second car to drive in the city if they're not allowed to drive their SUV there.
I never looked at the price of the Apple II, but I remember asking my parents to buy me an Atari 800 and it was $299 in 1983. I would be surprised if you could get a Spectrum for less money. The only computer at the time cheaper than that was a C64 at $199 (later dropped to $99).
In the UK, where the vast majority of Spectrums were sold, I remember the prices being more like 150 pounds for the 48k Spectrum vs over 300 for the Atari and Commodore; the Vic-20 was the Spectrum competitor, not the C-64.
Somewhere I have a couple of computer magazines from that era, but I can't find them right now.
If I didn't have a Commodore, I would sooner have an 8-bit Atari or Apple instead, not a Sinclair.
I'm sure most Spectrum owners would too, considering that those machines were, AFAIR, around three times the price.
The Spectrum was the cheapest computer that could play half-decent games, and its popularity became self-supporting as it lead more game developers to make games for it.
But if you're driving a V8, you apparently doesn't care about gas consumption, and the 5-10% saving that start-stop provides doesn't matter.
Except that on past experience, nonsense like this will soon be mandated by the government whether or not we want it.
For the eco-friendly and/or guy on a budget, 5-10% gas saving annually on your commuting matters.
If you're 'eco-friendly' then you won't be commuting far and will be driving an economy car, so saving 5-10% on your commuting won't even pay your monthly WoW subscription.
My last Government Motors car used to had half that system. Every time I came to a stop, it would stall. The "start" part of the equation was always questionable, though.
My 1982 Fiat had that system too. I never realised that it was 30 years ahead of its time.
When I worked for a hardware company, we built one basic chip and different boards used a different BIOS. In theory you could have installed a BIOS from the fastest cards --- if we hadn't blown fuses in the chip to prevent that from working -- but the high performance boards used the chips which had been proven to work reliably at those clock speeds with all components enabled, while the lower performance boards either didn't check out at the highest clock speeds or didn't pass all the hardware tests so some parts of the chip were suspect and had to be disabled.
So in our case if anyone had managed to get a different BIOS working on the chip and work around the blown fuses, odds are it would be flakey or simply refuse to work.
You are really in a minority in the developed world. I live in the UK, and I cannot say I much love the small size of houses/flats here. But there ought to be a reasonable density that allows us to have space, and still mean we can have good mass transit.
Britain has some of the smallest and most expensive housing in the world, because the post-war Labour government wanted to push people into Stalinist apartment blocks while the Tories didn't want riff-raff living in their country villages; hence there was pretty much unanimous political support for preventing said riff-raff from buying up a piece of land and building a house on it. If development was allowed, there would be about an acre of land per person, and every family could have a house on four acres of their own.
In fact, you're probably in a minority in the developed world: in most developed nations other than the UK, finding a house with an acre or more of land is not hard.
I don't care to argue about eco friendliness, what I care about though is where my money goes. In my case the choice is between brazilian farmers and some saudi trillionaire.
America imports twice as much oil from Canada as from Saudi Arabia...
Actually, this wasn't something I did myself, but the Apollo Guidance Computer source code must be one of the oldest 'backups' to be recovered. Old assembler printouts saved by the programmers were OCR-ed, then fixed up by hand where the OCR couldn't read the text, then assembled, then checksummed and cross-checked with the binary dump in the printout, then run on an emulator:
Certainly not. A few components, early on in ISROs history - sure. But not "most of it".
According to this article, the earlier versions of this rocket used Russian engines, and they lost another one in April due to replacing Russian engines with Indian engines:
Then, you'll probably explain how India managed to launch 30+ rockets successfully in the past, and launched one rocket successfully to the moon as well?
Didn't India get most of its rocket technology from the USSR?
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If I fall into the anomaly category without cheating, I'll be screwed. What can I demonstrate in my defense? Not much.
But this is good. Kids should learn that in the real world they'll be arbitrarily punished for doing well merely to further the career of the person they're working for.
so, what happens if the student doesn't have a cellphone, or has two, or is borrowing one from a friend?
Clearly all students should have to take the test naked to ensure they don't have a hidden cellphone.
with a gas fueled car, when the saudis decide you are paying $5/ gallon so they can send more money to islamic militant causes, you have no choice.
If you're American, surely you mean 'when the Canadians decide you are paying $5/gallon so they can send more money to hockey teams and French speaking welfare cases'?
You do realise that America gets twice as much oil from Canada as from Saudi, right?
No, I guess not.
Over the lifetime of the car, not much.
We're not talking about people scrapping their fifteen year old SUV and buying a crappy 'city car', but having to buy a second car to drive in the city if they're not allowed to drive their SUV there.
I believe the Sinclair ROMs have officially been released for emulator use. No idea about Apple but I'd be surprised if they had done the same.
Because, believe it or not, Apple came in at a price point that nobody could match without Apple's sales volume.
So Apple sell a netbook with no keyboard and an ARM CPU for twice the price of a netbook and no-one can compete with it on price?
Perhaps you're right, but that seems... odd.
For all other uses you don't need to hold it one hand for any length of time.
Pr0n?
You kind of missed the part about the British Empire spreading English to much of the world over the last few centuries; including America and India.
Money can be stored as intCents, then displayed with a dot preceding the last two values if your users want to see dollars.
Sure, if you only have $43,000,000 to deal with.
It's not so long ago that everyone in the future was going to be speaking Japanese. We know how well that prediction turned out.
In ten years time we will have perfected translation software to instantly translate the major languages on the fly with almost perfect accuracy.
I remember people saying that in ten years time we would have perfected translation software.... in the 80s.
Actually, looks like I was wrong: it's hard to be sure, but the Atari and Spectrum prices appear to include tax... I think it was 15% at the time?
Aha, 'Computing Today', January 1983, all prices in pounds before sales tax:
48k Apple II (no disk drives, etc): 525
16k Atari 800: 449
16k Spectrum: 125
48k Spectrum: 175
4k VIC-20: 120
I can't find a Commodore-64 ad.
I never looked at the price of the Apple II, but I remember asking my parents to buy me an Atari 800 and it was $299 in 1983. I would be surprised if you could get a Spectrum for less money. The only computer at the time cheaper than that was a C64 at $199 (later dropped to $99).
In the UK, where the vast majority of Spectrums were sold, I remember the prices being more like 150 pounds for the 48k Spectrum vs over 300 for the Atari and Commodore; the Vic-20 was the Spectrum competitor, not the C-64.
Somewhere I have a couple of computer magazines from that era, but I can't find them right now.
If I didn't have a Commodore, I would sooner have an 8-bit Atari or Apple instead, not a Sinclair.
I'm sure most Spectrum owners would too, considering that those machines were, AFAIR, around three times the price.
The Spectrum was the cheapest computer that could play half-decent games, and its popularity became self-supporting as it lead more game developers to make games for it.
But if you're driving a V8, you apparently doesn't care about gas consumption, and the 5-10% saving that start-stop provides doesn't matter.
Except that on past experience, nonsense like this will soon be mandated by the government whether or not we want it.
For the eco-friendly and/or guy on a budget, 5-10% gas saving annually on your commuting matters.
If you're 'eco-friendly' then you won't be commuting far and will be driving an economy car, so saving 5-10% on your commuting won't even pay your monthly WoW subscription.
My last Government Motors car used to had half that system. Every time I came to a stop, it would stall. The "start" part of the equation was always questionable, though.
My 1982 Fiat had that system too. I never realised that it was 30 years ahead of its time.
When I worked for a hardware company, we built one basic chip and different boards used a different BIOS. In theory you could have installed a BIOS from the fastest cards --- if we hadn't blown fuses in the chip to prevent that from working -- but the high performance boards used the chips which had been proven to work reliably at those clock speeds with all components enabled, while the lower performance boards either didn't check out at the highest clock speeds or didn't pass all the hardware tests so some parts of the chip were suspect and had to be disabled.
So in our case if anyone had managed to get a different BIOS working on the chip and work around the blown fuses, odds are it would be flakey or simply refuse to work.
You are really in a minority in the developed world. I live in the UK, and I cannot say I much love the small size of houses/flats here. But there ought to be a reasonable density that allows us to have space, and still mean we can have good mass transit.
Britain has some of the smallest and most expensive housing in the world, because the post-war Labour government wanted to push people into Stalinist apartment blocks while the Tories didn't want riff-raff living in their country villages; hence there was pretty much unanimous political support for preventing said riff-raff from buying up a piece of land and building a house on it. If development was allowed, there would be about an acre of land per person, and every family could have a house on four acres of their own.
In fact, you're probably in a minority in the developed world: in most developed nations other than the UK, finding a house with an acre or more of land is not hard.
I don't care to argue about eco friendliness, what I care about though is where my money goes. In my case the choice is between brazilian farmers and some saudi trillionaire.
America imports twice as much oil from Canada as from Saudi Arabia...
Actually, this wasn't something I did myself, but the Apollo Guidance Computer source code must be one of the oldest 'backups' to be recovered. Old assembler printouts saved by the programmers were OCR-ed, then fixed up by hand where the OCR couldn't read the text, then assembled, then checksummed and cross-checked with the binary dump in the printout, then run on an emulator:
http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/
30+ years is a minimum. Back when the common storage medium was a cassette.
Nah, that's easy: 8-bit emulators can often load cassette files through a PC sound-card.
I was going to try that but I think all my old Sinclair tapes got thrown out a couple of years back.
This isn't going to use battery at all, especially since VLC's codecs aren't hardware accelerated...
And in Java, which is well-known for its efficient support of complex bit-twiddling algorithms.
Certainly not. A few components, early on in ISROs history - sure. But not "most of it".
According to this article, the earlier versions of this rocket used Russian engines, and they lost another one in April due to replacing Russian engines with Indian engines:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Indigenous-engines-bring-down-GSLV/articleshow/5814028.cms
Then, you'll probably explain how India managed to launch 30+ rockets successfully in the past, and launched one rocket successfully to the moon as well?
Didn't India get most of its rocket technology from the USSR?