Hmm, you know what? Damn. I misremembered how it worked, and I didn't read closely enough at the link I provided. So, to stand corrected, the D flag was something you set (or cleared) proactively using the SED or CLD instruction. It actually indicated a mode you were in, rather than being a flag in the usual sense (such as a carry or a zero flag).
BCD (Binary-Coded Decimal) mode was cool because it changed the way adding and subtracting worked. If you added 0x01 to 0x29, you'd get 0x30 instead of 0x2A. This was possible because there were actually two carry flags on the 6502 — one (named C) which was set upon overflow of values greater than 255, and the other (named D) which was set upon overflow of the low nybble (e.g., the low 4 bits).
Watched Mind-Sifter. I liked it. They got the lighting and the camera style all wrong, though, whereas Star Trek Continues nails these things. Mind-Sifter did not at all feel to me like a a continuation of 60s Trek — it felt more like a reboot. I appreicate that they tried, but they missed the mark. I did really enjoy the tip of the hat to "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet", though, which was playing on the B&W television.:)
ST-C absolutely dead-on nails the look and feel of ST-TOS in every way.
Seconded. Other than the actors being different, it really, honestly, truly feels like you're watching lost episodes of ST:TOS straight out of the 1960s.
If you're installing a TV transmitter, you have a device at 2000 feet that, if broken open and unshielded, produces enough energy to melt people's faces off at ground level 500 meters away from the tower base.
Because they don't really innovate anymore and most of what they do is a regression. The Mac Mini is a perfect example. It really not only failed to advance but in some ways went backwards.
Ya, definitely disappointing there. But on the other hand, doesn't it have a higher CPU-power-per-watt rating? I imagine that this matters more to some people than pure CPU horsepower.
The newer OS upgrades are more about selling you some crap you don't want or need than increasing productivity. Mountain Lion was the last OS that actually seemed like an improvement. My computer ran better with that installation but Mavricks really seems sluggish, so much so I wiped the drive and went back to ML.
Huh, I've noticed the opposite with Mavericks. I only recently (a month ago) upgraded, but I have noticed significantly better battery life with it — especially with Safari not chewing up as many idle CPU cycles.
I hate that upgrades are tied to the Apple Store now. Why???
Ya, that drives me nuts too. However, I think it should still be possible to extract a.dmg installation image after downloading the update and before installing. I did that with Lion in 2011. Downloaded it once from the App Store and installed it on multiple systems from that disk image.
So many little things bother me whereas when I first installed OS X I found the little things to be where they excelled.
Yeah, that's a good point. Not much exciting anymore. And Yosemite looks like a huge step backward in the graphic design department. It's all ugly and flat. I don't look forward to being forced to upgrade to it someday.
I find myself using my Linux laptop more and more over the Mac for general computing use. For video work I still use it but now that I've got ffmpeg fixed from the avconv debacle I'm starting to work with Linux more in that area too. If only hardware manufacturers would support Linux more.
Understandable... But how does any of this mean that Apple is becoming less relevant in the computer world? I think most people out there just don't care or notice.
Have you even seen the low-end 2014 Mac mini? It's a 1.5GHz CPU that's supposed to go in ultra-portables. The worst part is, that CPU is more expensive than a regular CPU, so Apple made two mistakes in what is supposed to be their entry model to OS X.
I just realized what they're doing. By artificially crippling the latest generation of Mac Mini, it will mean they can claim greater gains later when they switch from Intel to ARM. Mac Mini and MacBook Air will probably be the first lines to switch.
Spinning magnetic disk drives are too big (physically) and frankly too fragile for mobile. The future is (for better or for worse) flash storage soldered to the motherboard. It's the only way to get lightweight mobile devices that are also extremely shock-resistant.
And if you are going to use the Voyager craft as examples, please remember that it took 12 years to reach Neptune and will take THREE HUNDRED YEARS to reach the Oort cloud.
At which point it will be V'Ger.:)
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That's wayyyyyy too much effort for how I launch things: Tap, tap, done if it's on the first screen. Otherwise if it's on the second screen then it's swipe, tap, tap, done. I'd rather just Tap, tap, tap, done, with never any swipe.
Encryption is ALWAYS breakable by brute force. Question is how long does it take? Seconds? Hours? Months? Years? Decades? This is usually determined by key sizes. The longer the key, the longer it takes to brute force. (generally)
Chuck Norris can brute force a 256-bit key in the time it takes to blink his eyes.
I have no clue what all the above really means.... If you are saying that 256 bit keys are hard to break, I would concur. If you are saying that it would take a long time, I would again agree. However, if you look at "possible" it is totally possible to brute force a 256 bit key, it just takes TIME to do, LOTS of time OR lots of computers. Either way, it is perfectly possible... Now it may take a LOT of computers (more than are physically possible) or it may take a LONG time (more than we likely have before the sun destroys the earth) but that is all about being practical and not about being possible.
It's mathematically possible. It's humanly impossible. No human will ever build a machine using normal matter that is capable of it.
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Hmm, you know what? Damn. I misremembered how it worked, and I didn't read closely enough at the link I provided. So, to stand corrected, the D flag was something you set (or cleared) proactively using the SED or CLD instruction. It actually indicated a mode you were in, rather than being a flag in the usual sense (such as a carry or a zero flag).
BCD (Binary-Coded Decimal) mode was cool because it changed the way adding and subtracting worked. If you added 0x01 to 0x29, you'd get 0x30 instead of 0x2A. This was possible because there were actually two carry flags on the 6502 — one (named C) which was set upon overflow of values greater than 255, and the other (named D) which was set upon overflow of the low nybble (e.g., the low 4 bits).
6502.org Tutorials: Decimal Mode
Watched Mind-Sifter. I liked it. They got the lighting and the camera style all wrong, though, whereas Star Trek Continues nails these things. Mind-Sifter did not at all feel to me like a a continuation of 60s Trek — it felt more like a reboot. I appreicate that they tried, but they missed the mark. I did really enjoy the tip of the hat to "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet", though, which was playing on the B&W television. :)
ST-C absolutely dead-on nails the look and feel of ST-TOS in every way.
Seconded. Other than the actors being different, it really, honestly, truly feels like you're watching lost episodes of ST:TOS straight out of the 1960s.
The Star Trek Continues episode in the mirror universe is actually really good. Like seriously good.
I liked all three a lot. And Lou Ferrigno in episode 2 is freaking awesome.
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Cray??
This is totes cray cray!
If you're installing a TV transmitter, you have a device at 2000 feet that, if broken open and unshielded, produces enough energy to melt people's faces off at ground level 500 meters away from the tower base.
I call bullshit.
Because they don't really innovate anymore and most of what they do is a regression. The Mac Mini is a perfect example. It really not only failed to advance but in some ways went backwards.
Ya, definitely disappointing there. But on the other hand, doesn't it have a higher CPU-power-per-watt rating? I imagine that this matters more to some people than pure CPU horsepower.
The newer OS upgrades are more about selling you some crap you don't want or need than increasing productivity. Mountain Lion was the last OS that actually seemed like an improvement. My computer ran better with that installation but Mavricks really seems sluggish, so much so I wiped the drive and went back to ML.
Huh, I've noticed the opposite with Mavericks. I only recently (a month ago) upgraded, but I have noticed significantly better battery life with it — especially with Safari not chewing up as many idle CPU cycles.
I hate that upgrades are tied to the Apple Store now. Why???
Ya, that drives me nuts too. However, I think it should still be possible to extract a .dmg installation image after downloading the update and before installing. I did that with Lion in 2011. Downloaded it once from the App Store and installed it on multiple systems from that disk image.
So many little things bother me whereas when I first installed OS X I found the little things to be where they excelled.
Yeah, that's a good point. Not much exciting anymore. And Yosemite looks like a huge step backward in the graphic design department. It's all ugly and flat. I don't look forward to being forced to upgrade to it someday.
I find myself using my Linux laptop more and more over the Mac for general computing use. For video work I still use it but now that I've got ffmpeg fixed from the avconv debacle I'm starting to work with Linux more in that area too. If only hardware manufacturers would support Linux more.
Understandable... But how does any of this mean that Apple is becoming less relevant in the computer world? I think most people out there just don't care or notice.
Oh well.......Apple is becoming less and less relevant anyway in the computer world.
What leads you to say that?
This religion started out as a joke, and remains a joke. (Thank Goddess.)
To which goddess are we to pay thanks?
Tetris doesn't need coverage tool to test you. Everything about you.
So what you're saying is...
In Soviet Russia, Tetris game tests you!
Have you even seen the low-end 2014 Mac mini? It's a 1.5GHz CPU that's supposed to go in ultra-portables. The worst part is, that CPU is more expensive than a regular CPU, so Apple made two mistakes in what is supposed to be their entry model to OS X.
I just realized what they're doing. By artificially crippling the latest generation of Mac Mini, it will mean they can claim greater gains later when they switch from Intel to ARM. Mac Mini and MacBook Air will probably be the first lines to switch.
Spinning magnetic disk drives are too big (physically) and frankly too fragile for mobile. The future is (for better or for worse) flash storage soldered to the motherboard. It's the only way to get lightweight mobile devices that are also extremely shock-resistant.
Spinning hard drives for mobile devices have been around for many years.
And.... thank god they're pretty much non-existant anymore.
IOS on a tablet with a hard drive would be a nice laptop for most people
2005 called and wants its thick, noisy, fagile tablet concept back.
I misread the title as:
Birth Control Pills Threaten Fish Sticks
The ability to teleport 1-2 tons of complex machinery intact wherever you want is insignificant next to the power of the Force.
[...] At any given time, 8GB will give you 2^(8*(2^23)) states, which of course will change in a nanosecond. [...]
First of all, you mean 8 GiB, not 8 GB.
8 GB is 8*(10^9) bytes, whereas 8 GiB is 8*(2^30) = 2^33 bytes.
Secondly, 8 GiB is actually 2^(8*(2^33)) states, not 2^(8*(2^23)) states. (What you gave was the number of states for 8 MiB.)
And if you are going to use the Voyager craft as examples, please remember that it took 12 years to reach Neptune and will take THREE HUNDRED YEARS to reach the Oort cloud.
At which point it will be V'Ger. :)
That's wayyyyyy too much effort for how I launch things: Tap, tap, done if it's on the first screen. Otherwise if it's on the second screen then it's swipe, tap, tap, done. I'd rather just Tap, tap, tap, done, with never any swipe.
Encryption is ALWAYS breakable by brute force. Question is how long does it take? Seconds? Hours? Months? Years? Decades? This is usually determined by key sizes. The longer the key, the longer it takes to brute force. (generally)
Chuck Norris can brute force a 256-bit key in the time it takes to blink his eyes.
I have no clue what all the above really means.... If you are saying that 256 bit keys are hard to break, I would concur. If you are saying that it would take a long time, I would again agree. However, if you look at "possible" it is totally possible to brute force a 256 bit key, it just takes TIME to do, LOTS of time OR lots of computers. Either way, it is perfectly possible... Now it may take a LOT of computers (more than are physically possible) or it may take a LONG time (more than we likely have before the sun destroys the earth) but that is all about being practical and not about being possible.
It's mathematically possible. It's humanly impossible. No human will ever build a machine using normal matter that is capable of it.
Correction: You meant to say "set up a hog farm." Setup is a noun. Set up is a verb.