This font looks like shit and is even harder to read. I can't believe they literally used HALF a stencil font. WTF? Looks like I will be forgetting that crappy font.
I can even picture an xkcd for this:
Researcher 1: Hey, lets take a Stencil font and drop 50% of each of the individual glyphs. Researcher 2: Won't that make it harder to read? Researcher 1: Students will become so frustrated trying to read the words that it will actually increase remembering it! Researcher 2: Brilliant!
Narrator: That brilliant idea when you are high isn't so brilliant when you aren't.
> a Super Mario film produced by Illumination Entertainment
/sarcasm Because the last Super Mario Bros movie was such a masterpiece. Oh wait, it was a piece of shit. But THIS new movie based on a game will be different, right? Hello Nintendo, I have a bridge I'd like to sell you...
Instead, how about you STOP with the fucking retarded copyright claims against "Let's Play" (YouTube) videos who are providing FREE ADVERTISING for your IP.
Some people blamed Amazon but that wasn't the cause.
Part of the problem was that it tied up stock with toys that no one wanted -- such as The Last Jedi.
THE biggest problem was that it was saddled with *Billions* of dollars in debt. Namely $5.2 Billion and negative equity of $1.3 Billion. While Microsoft can dump $2 Billion into the XBox or BING program until it is profitable Toys R Us didn't have the capital to do that.
TL:DR;
* Huge debt * Couldn't pay interest * Declining sales * Bad management * Got bought by Private Equity firms - stripped the company of cash * Arrogance of thinking it didn't need an internet presence
Microsoft Windows, noun 8: A 64-bit compilation of 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor written by a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition with 0 bit of understanding good UI.
DOS 3.2 and DOS 3.3 *sucked* due to its dumb File System design. Who the fuck stores Meta-Data IN the file itself??? (Binary files had the first 4 bytes in the file reserved for DOS: load address, file length). Most of DOS 3.x wasn't even written by Apple -- it was contracted out -- sans the disk nibble writing/reading code. Notice how ProDOS stores the load address and file length in the directory entry itself. The ProDOS name itself shows what Apple though of DOS 3.x: Amateur DOS.
Even with the dumb design of mixing meta-data with file data Pronto-DOS and other "Fast DOSes", such as Diverse-DOS, RolandDOS, etc. showed how much "Buffer Bloat" there was in DOS.
> name another he worked on.
And _you_ have accomplished what again?
Why does he need a "modern" accomplishment? Any ONE of Woz's accomplishments -- Apple I, Apple ][, the disk drive -- outshine pretty anyone will ever accomplish. Woz helped usher in the computer age for everyone.
This constant "need to prove oneself" accomplished what again???
That said, Woz should take some responsibility for a school using his fame / name.
E.g. The SI system is a clusterfuck of 7 "fundamental units" but more then half of them are *dependent* on others.
*facepalm*
E.g. The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics states that Energy can not be created nor destroyed, only transformed. Ergo, the universe has always existed (in some form.)
* Where did this energy come from? * Where did the all the Laws of Physics come from???
Furthermore, Scientists are completely clueless about:
* The composition of Consciousness -- everyone admits it exists but there is no way to measure it, * Conscious is the foundation of reality -- NOT matter. That is, higher dimensions are proven to exist with the shared OBE (Out-of-Body-Experience), * Consciousness can be transferred, * The majority of life in the universe are on planets with 2 suns * The majority of extraterrestrials are bipedal, with 4 digits * White holes at the center of galaxies, * The 2 missing fundamental forces: Strong and Weak intergalactic forces, * The link between (macro) teleportation and time travel, due to space-time being relative * Death, namely Life before Life and Life after Death * Darwinism is Junk Science (there are ZERO accidents) * Creationism is Junk Faith (humans were genetically engineered)
I could go on about how ignorant man is about reality
e.g. Science is a male, linear, approach to (intellectual) knowledge. Scientists don't even know about the other female, nonlinear system of (experiential) knowledge.
but the point is:
There will ALWAYS be something to discover.
Lastly, when First Contact starts to happen ~2029 it will be the catalyst for people to start realizing just how clueless our species is and has been.
The FCB originates from CP/M and is also present in most variants of DOS, though only as a backwards compatibility measure in MS-DOS versions 2.0 and later. A full FCB is 36 bytes long; in early versions of CP/M, it was 33 bytes. This fixed size, which could not be increased without breaking application compatibility, lead to the FCB's eventual demise as the standard method of accessing files.
FCB+00h DR - Drive. 0 for default, 1-16 for A-P. In DOSPLUS,
bit 7 can be set to indicate that the operation should work with
subdirectories rather than files.
00 byte drive number (0 for default drive, 1=A:, 2=B:,...)
01 8bytes filename, left justified with trailing blanks
09 3bytes filename extension, left justified w/blanks
Also, MS-DOS supports two binary executables:.COM and.EXE same as CP/M. Again, inspired for compatibility reasons.
A "professional" programmer bragging how much he is ignorant.
*facepalm*
Hint: If you aren't using all the (language's debugging) tools available then you aren't as smart, or professional, as you think you are. A "real" professional would go "Oh cool, this defensive programming -- an implementation of Fail Fast -- will help in tracking down bugs! Nice!"
C programmers who don't use assert() are either ignorant, stupid, writing toy programs, or some combination. Period.
Want to share your stream with 20 people OK, you get billed 20x that month.
Share it with 4 others (family), OK, you get charged 5x that month.
This isn't rocket science. More like a cash grab after "Oh shit, our bandwidth costs are higher then we expected and these expenses are cutting into our profits."
Underclocking the Intel CPUs is done so you can guage scalability.
You should also try underclocking your RAM (again to understand scalability)
Likewise also benchmark overclocked RAM.
With the combined underclocked, normal, and overclocked combinations of CPU vs RAM you can map a 2D chart and you'll be in a better position to guage WHY Intel is faster then AMD.
In my 30+ years of programming & building PCs these rules of thumb haven't changed:
* AMD provides a better bang-per-buck * Intel is fastest but you will pay through the nose of decreasing returns.
> What am I missing as someone who doesnt know hardware but understands software? Why is AMD so often trumpeted here but rarely seen in the real world? And why does AMD always perform great in benchmarks but badly in real world tests compared to Intel?
These are all fantastic questions! I would love to know the answers as well.
If I was to wager a guess it would be: memory bandwidth
If you take a look at the games where Intel beats AMD you'll almost see it comes down to memory bandwidth.
Any chance you could try the following?
* Have you run Sandra's memory benchmark? * Have you tried _underclocking_ the intel chips? * Have turned OFF hyper-threading? * Have tried benchmarking on Linux? * Have you disabled ALL audio?
If Windows Server was THAT much better then Linux according to all the FUD, er "research", MS paid off from the Gartner Group, etc, W.R.T. ROI, etc., then why is there such a HUGE upswing in Linux?
What are the areas tha MS is _publicly_ admitting where Linux does a better job then Windows?
The Orville is the spiritual successor to Star Trek. I originally wrote it off as a dumb Galaxy Quest show but once you get past the first 2 episodes it starts to get good.
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I wish you were being cynical but sadly you are right.
The founding fathers share your lament.
Ironically it has lost its context
There is a rumor that the Romans had a double-sided ax that represented two things:
* Authority
* Accountability
Why?
* Authority without Accountability leads to abuse of power.
* Accountability without Authority leads to Bureaucracy and constant bikeshedding.
It's time that people start demanding accountability from those in power -- to keep everyone honest.
So in other words people are distracted with other crap then spending time to listen to music.
Various reasons:
* Stockholm syndrome
* Ooooh Shiney!
* To stupid to know better
* To ignorant to know better
* To lazy to learn something different
Part of the problem is you that you have morons claiming "ad blocking is unethical.
*facepalm*
So closing my eyes is fine but if I use technology to do the same thing all of it sudden it becomes "ethical" ??? WTF !
I use ad-blocking to SPEED up MY browsing experience and not load images + cookies from 30+ different websites.
This font looks like shit and is even harder to read. I can't believe they literally used HALF a stencil font. WTF? Looks like I will be forgetting that crappy font.
I can even picture an xkcd for this:
Researcher 1: Hey, lets take a Stencil font and drop 50% of each of the individual glyphs.
Researcher 2: Won't that make it harder to read?
Researcher 1: Students will become so frustrated trying to read the words that it will actually increase remembering it!
Researcher 2: Brilliant!
Narrator: That brilliant idea when you are high isn't so brilliant when you aren't.
WOW.
Mod parent +1 informative.
> a Super Mario film produced by Illumination Entertainment
Instead, how about you STOP with the fucking retarded copyright claims against "Let's Play" (YouTube) videos who are providing FREE ADVERTISING for your IP.
Some people blamed Amazon but that wasn't the cause.
Part of the problem was that it tied up stock with toys that no one wanted -- such as The Last Jedi.
THE biggest problem was that it was saddled with *Billions* of dollars in debt. Namely $5.2 Billion and negative equity of $1.3 Billion. While Microsoft can dump $2 Billion into the XBox or BING program until it is profitable Toys R Us didn't have the capital to do that.
TL:DR;
* Huge debt
* Couldn't pay interest
* Declining sales
* Bad management
* Got bought by Private Equity firms - stripped the company of cash
* Arrogance of thinking it didn't need an internet presence
References:
* https://www.quora.com/What-are...
* https://www.usatoday.com/story...
Fantastic Bill Hicks quote.
Funny how animals have been on this planet for millions of years yet man is the only animal stupid enough who can't figure this out.
Wow, a dark theme. What is this, 2000?
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Microsoft Windows, noun 8: A 64-bit compilation of 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor written by a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition with 0 bit of understanding good UI.
That's why Chrome's "Save to PDF" is invaluable. Because sooner or later the website / web page WILL disappear.
> and the Apple 2
What does the Apple ][ have to do with Woz U ???
> Apple ][ .. disk OS were great in their time,
Uh, Apple 2 fan here.
DOS 3.2 and DOS 3.3 *sucked* due to its dumb File System design. Who the fuck stores Meta-Data IN the file itself??? (Binary files had the first 4 bytes in the file reserved for DOS: load address, file length). Most of DOS 3.x wasn't even written by Apple -- it was contracted out -- sans the disk nibble writing/reading code. Notice how ProDOS stores the load address and file length in the directory entry itself. The ProDOS name itself shows what Apple though of DOS 3.x: Amateur DOS.
Even with the dumb design of mixing meta-data with file data Pronto-DOS and other "Fast DOSes", such as Diverse-DOS, RolandDOS, etc. showed how much "Buffer Bloat" there was in DOS.
> name another he worked on.
And _you_ have accomplished what again?
Why does he need a "modern" accomplishment? Any ONE of Woz's accomplishments -- Apple I, Apple ][, the disk drive -- outshine pretty anyone will ever accomplish. Woz helped usher in the computer age for everyone.
This constant "need to prove oneself" accomplished what again???
That said, Woz should take some responsibility for a school using his fame / name.
You don't know what the fuck you are talking about. Modern Science has a laundry list of fundamental problems:
* Problems with the Standard Model
* Problems with Big Bang
* Unsolved Problems in Physics
E.g. The SI system is a clusterfuck of 7 "fundamental units" but more then half of them are *dependent* on others.
*facepalm*
E.g. The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics states that Energy can not be created nor destroyed, only transformed. Ergo, the universe has always existed (in some form.)
* Where did this energy come from?
* Where did the all the Laws of Physics come from???
Furthermore, Scientists are completely clueless about:
* The composition of Consciousness -- everyone admits it exists but there is no way to measure it,
* Conscious is the foundation of reality -- NOT matter. That is, higher dimensions are proven to exist with the shared OBE (Out-of-Body-Experience),
* Consciousness can be transferred,
* The majority of life in the universe are on planets with 2 suns
* The majority of extraterrestrials are bipedal, with 4 digits
* White holes at the center of galaxies,
* The 2 missing fundamental forces: Strong and Weak intergalactic forces,
* The link between (macro) teleportation and time travel, due to space-time being relative
* Death, namely Life before Life and Life after Death
* Darwinism is Junk Science (there are ZERO accidents)
* Creationism is Junk Faith (humans were genetically engineered)
I could go on about how ignorant man is about reality
e.g. Science is a male, linear, approach to (intellectual) knowledge. Scientists don't even know about the other female, nonlinear system of (experiential) knowledge.
but the point is:
There will ALWAYS be something to discover.
Lastly, when First Contact starts to happen ~2029 it will be the catalyst for people to start realizing just how clueless our species is and has been.
Thanks for the link and the author's assertion!
Short answer: No, but some of the CP/M's design was copied.
Long answer:
MS-DOS supports two different methods of file and record management:
* File control blocks (FCBs) ( MS-DOS v1.x)
* File handles (MS-DOS v2.x+)
They copied some of the EXACT same FCB (File Control Block) layouts.
WTF is a FCB?
The CP/M FCB is documented here
FCB+00h DR - Drive. 0 for default, 1-16 for A-P. In DOSPLUS,
bit 7 can be set to indicate that the operation should work with
subdirectories rather than files.
The format of the MS-DOS FCBS is documented here
Funny how both are exactly 33 bytes long!
00 byte drive number (0 for default drive, 1=A:, 2=B:,
01 8bytes filename, left justified with trailing blanks
09 3bytes filename extension, left justified w/blanks
Also, MS-DOS supports two binary executables: .COM and .EXE same as CP/M. Again, inspired for compatibility reasons.
Maybe the source will reveal something different?
A "professional" programmer bragging how much he is ignorant.
*facepalm*
Hint: If you aren't using all the (language's debugging) tools available then you aren't as smart, or professional, as you think you are. A "real" professional would go "Oh cool, this defensive programming -- an implementation of Fail Fast -- will help in tracking down bugs! Nice!"
C programmers who don't use assert() are either ignorant, stupid, writing toy programs, or some combination. Period.
.. just charge a flat rate per stream.
Want to share your stream with 20 people OK, you get billed 20x that month.
Share it with 4 others (family), OK, you get charged 5x that month.
This isn't rocket science. More like a cash grab after "Oh shit, our bandwidth costs are higher then we expected and these expenses are cutting into our profits."
Agreed. I would summarize the causes as:
1. Memory bandwidth
2. Single-threaded performance
Turning off hyper-threading on the Intel chips and rebenchmarking should help show how much of a factor single threaded performance is having.
Minor corrections:
"Games" should "gaming benchmarks"
Underclocking the Intel CPUs is done so you can guage scalability.
You should also try underclocking your RAM (again to understand scalability)
Likewise also benchmark overclocked RAM.
With the combined underclocked, normal, and overclocked combinations of CPU vs RAM you can map a 2D chart and you'll be in a better position to guage WHY Intel is faster then AMD.
In my 30+ years of programming & building PCs these rules of thumb haven't changed:
* AMD provides a better bang-per-buck
* Intel is fastest but you will pay through the nose of decreasing returns.
> What am I missing as someone who doesnt know hardware but understands software? Why is AMD so often trumpeted here but rarely seen in the real world? And why does AMD always perform great in benchmarks but badly in real world tests compared to Intel?
These are all fantastic questions! I would love to know the answers as well.
If I was to wager a guess it would be: memory bandwidth
If you take a look at the games where Intel beats AMD you'll almost see it comes down to memory bandwidth.
Any chance you could try the following?
* Have you run Sandra's memory benchmark?
* Have you tried _underclocking_ the intel chips?
* Have turned OFF hyper-threading?
* Have tried benchmarking on Linux?
* Have you disabled ALL audio?
Let us know what you find out!
Where did I mention Muslims???
Methinks you are replying to the wrong thread / post.
If Windows Server was THAT much better then Linux according to all the FUD, er "research", MS paid off from the Gartner Group, etc, W.R.T. ROI, etc., then why is there such a HUGE upswing in Linux?
What are the areas tha MS is _publicly_ admitting where Linux does a better job then Windows?
You aren't missing anything with STD. It's crap.
The Orville is the spiritual successor to Star Trek. I originally wrote it off as a dumb Galaxy Quest show but once you get past the first 2 episodes it starts to get good.