Wait a minute - they're saying that a patent received in 1995 could apply to a product that was created in 1985. It took a long time for that patent to be processed by the USPTO.
Development on the NES didn't stop in 1985. Many of the controllers, such as the light gun, were developed afterwards, and have their own patents. Also, mapper chips that gave cartriges features such as additional ROM, battery-backed storage, more sound channels, and so on, were being developed for years afterwards.
Some will say that in the long-run, upgrading the PC would be better. I'd much rather have a system that will run games made for it 5 years after its release (assuming it survives that long), than have to upgrade my video card every two years to play the newest PC games.
Funny. I think the other way around. I like having a machine that can play games written two years ago at screaming-fast framerates.
Since the subject of the discussion is the Elder Scrolls series, the big advantage of waiting until last Christmas to get Morrowind (besides being able to get the GOTY edition for $20) was that I had a computer that could handle even the notoriously slow parts of the game without trouble. If I'd gone with the XBox version instead, I'd have had the same sluggish framerates in Balmora that everyone else complained about.
Bit flips don't happen very often. I ran a lab of computers that would report bit-flip errors, and I'd estimate that with a modern system, you'd get one bit-flip per month per gigabyte of memory. Odds are, you'd never notice it.
How about the clause at the end of one EULA I found for an ebook reader? At the end of the license, there was a statement to the effect of "This is not the real EULA. To read the real EULA, visit our website."
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No one said it would react *quickly* to a nuclear war. It took about two hours for routing to go around Level3 rather than through it.
Sure, everybody reads books and newspapers in a computer screen. Ever heard of eye strain or Computer Vision Syndrome?
Also, a computer screen may have 96 dpi (17 inch LCD, thanks for asking) but it "fools" my eyes into having more than that by antialiasing text with subpixel rendering, takes lots of color matching in the process (what Microsoft calls ClearType).
I doubt that would happen with a 4-shades-of-gray epaper, and that is why a printed fax looks so awful.
I can read just fine on my black-and-white, front-lit, 72-dpi, no-antialiasing Palm Zire 21, with no hint of any form of eyestrain. The keys are (1) it is front-lit, not back-lit, and (2) there is no antialiasing.
Skylarkov was found "not guilty" through a technique known as "jury nullification": the jury acknowleged that he had broken the law, acknowleged that the facts of the case were true, and still refused to convict. Jury nullification does not establish any sort of precedent.
JPEG and many other file formats are limited to 65,535 pixels in any given dimension. The largest image in this dataset is 86,400 x 43,200. What file format are they going to use?
Neither a sonic blast nor a torpedo exploding will cause the harm of a ship sinking. Which would you expect to be worse: short-term, localized effects of a pressure wave, or a massive oil slick from ruptured fuel tanks?
The 1918 flu didn't kill very many people directly. What killed was secondary infections such as pneumonia. Modern medicine may not be much better than 1918 medicine at dealing with viruses, but treatment of bacterial infections has come a long way since then. Besides, we don't have an entire generation of young men who were exposed to poison gas this time around.
I don't think that the 1918 flu would be the major killer now that it was originally.
Actually, that one's new -- if they've done it right. Opera only holds the last 10,000 or so pages, and the last time I checked, Mozilla started getting dog-slow at around six months worth of old addresses.
I figured it would likely be economic, though I don't understand why. We have many quarries churning out masonary building blocks, what I don't understand is why the US doesn't do the same. Perhaps the local resources just aren't available where they are needed. Here, bricks are dirt cheap; in fact I would not be surprised if they are cheaper than using wood overall.
The United States has enormous forests and an established logging industry. Switching over to something like brick or stone, except for some parts of the east coast, would involve giving up that industry and starting a new one pretty much from scratch.
That, and there are some parts of the country where you don't want anything but wood-frame or steel-frame. A wood-frame house holds up just fine in an earthquake, as all the pieces are attached to each other. A brick house will fall down, killing the occupants. Compare the results of a major earthquake in southern California (wood-frame, and 50-100 dead) with the results of a major earthquake in Turkey (brick/stone, and 50,000-100,000 dead).
The CAVE system uses a head-mounted tracking system to let you move around freely in the 10' by 10' by 10' space. Of course, calibrating the tracking system is a pain, and if it isn't calibrated, things don't look right.
Quest was quite nice in that regard. I simply went online to their "sign me up" web page, provided my address, selected "basic service", selected "no interstate long distance carrier" and "no local long-distance carrier", and then confirmed that I didn't want long distance.
Final bill: $12/mo + $5 in "fees" + $3 in real taxes.
There are plenty of people still using Windows 98 and having a good time. Lord knows how they keep malware off their machine but they do it.
Speaking as someone who's still using Win98, it's actually quite easy -- keeping malware off my machine is why I haven't upgraded, and don't plan to. Simply don't use Internet Explorer, and don't use Outlook Express. Everything else just takes care of itself. 98 isn't like XP, where every service opens ports to the Internet at large.
pack = 4 lbs tent = 8 lbs (Far too heavy, but it was free, and it's proof against anything short of a Category 2 hurricane) clothes = 5 lbs (includes rain gear, sandals for river crossings) cook gear = 4 lbs (including stove fuel) sleeping gear = 3 lbs tools = 3 lbs (includes filter pump, first-aid kit, and bear-bagging line) emergency gear = 2 lbs (everything I need to spend a day and a night outdoors)
Total before food and water: 29 lbs
The only thing here that's more expensive than normal is the sleeping bag. I spent $200 for a two-pound down-filled sleeping bag that's good down to below 20F. The tent's a 30-year-old two-person mountaineering tent; a modern replacement would weigh about 6 pounds and cost around $750, while a modern one-person replacement would weigh about 3 pounds and cost $150-$200.
The key to reducing weight is not to carry lighter stuff, but to carry *less* stuff. Almost everything in my pack can serve at least two purposes: the clothes, for example, double as a pillow at night. Warm gloves can also insulate against hot pans. The sandals are useful for river crossings and camp footgear, while the boots are also used for pounding in tent stakes. Instead of a cup, I carry an extra wide-mouth water bottle. Meals are planned to minimize the amount of cooking gear needed, and I usually eat straight out of the pan.
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A properly-designed rootkit has no symptoms.
Wait a minute - they're saying that a patent received in 1995 could apply to a product that was created in 1985. It took a long time for that patent to be processed by the USPTO.
Development on the NES didn't stop in 1985. Many of the controllers, such as the light gun, were developed afterwards, and have their own patents. Also, mapper chips that gave cartriges features such as additional ROM, battery-backed storage, more sound channels, and so on, were being developed for years afterwards.
Some will say that in the long-run, upgrading the PC would be better. I'd much rather have a system that will run games made for it 5 years after its release (assuming it survives that long), than have to upgrade my video card every two years to play the newest PC games.
Funny. I think the other way around. I like having a machine that can play games written two years ago at screaming-fast framerates.
Since the subject of the discussion is the Elder Scrolls series, the big advantage of waiting until last Christmas to get Morrowind (besides being able to get the GOTY edition for $20) was that I had a computer that could handle even the notoriously slow parts of the game without trouble. If I'd gone with the XBox version instead, I'd have had the same sluggish framerates in Balmora that everyone else complained about.
It means somewhere between 1 and 99,999,991 users.
Bit flips don't happen very often. I ran a lab of computers that would report bit-flip errors, and I'd estimate that with a modern system, you'd get one bit-flip per month per gigabyte of memory. Odds are, you'd never notice it.
How about the clause at the end of one EULA I found for an ebook reader? At the end of the license, there was a statement to the effect of "This is not the real EULA. To read the real EULA, visit our website."
No one said it would react *quickly* to a nuclear war. It took about two hours for routing to go around Level3 rather than through it.
Sure, everybody reads books and newspapers in a computer screen. Ever heard of eye strain or Computer Vision Syndrome?
Also, a computer screen may have 96 dpi (17 inch LCD, thanks for asking) but it "fools" my eyes into having more than that by antialiasing text with subpixel rendering, takes lots of color matching in the process (what Microsoft calls ClearType).
I doubt that would happen with a 4-shades-of-gray epaper, and that is why a printed fax looks so awful.
I can read just fine on my black-and-white, front-lit, 72-dpi, no-antialiasing Palm Zire 21, with no hint of any form of eyestrain. The keys are (1) it is front-lit, not back-lit, and (2) there is no antialiasing.
Skylarkov was found "not guilty" through a technique known as "jury nullification": the jury acknowleged that he had broken the law, acknowleged that the facts of the case were true, and still refused to convict. Jury nullification does not establish any sort of precedent.
JPEG and many other file formats are limited to 65,535 pixels in any given dimension. The largest image in this dataset is 86,400 x 43,200. What file format are they going to use?
You ever actually *read* an issue of Consumer Reports? They've got a *lot* of advertising for other products that they offer.
Neither a sonic blast nor a torpedo exploding will cause the harm of a ship sinking. Which would you expect to be worse: short-term, localized effects of a pressure wave, or a massive oil slick from ruptured fuel tanks?
No Mozart. And if they don't have Mozart, you *know* they won't have anything by dead white guys.
Sort of like the malicious Software Removal Tool they've been sending out via Windows Update?
Isn't there a better way that the issue of peering can be handled/regulated?
I've always favored shotguns at three paces.
The 1918 flu didn't kill very many people directly. What killed was secondary infections such as pneumonia. Modern medicine may not be much better than 1918 medicine at dealing with viruses, but treatment of bacterial infections has come a long way since then. Besides, we don't have an entire generation of young men who were exposed to poison gas this time around.
I don't think that the 1918 flu would be the major killer now that it was originally.
Actually, that one's new -- if they've done it right. Opera only holds the last 10,000 or so pages, and the last time I checked, Mozilla started getting dog-slow at around six months worth of old addresses.
The "porn" in question was Mr. Goatse.
I figured it would likely be economic, though I don't understand why. We have many quarries churning out masonary building blocks, what I don't understand is why the US doesn't do the same. Perhaps the local resources just aren't available where they are needed. Here, bricks are dirt cheap; in fact I would not be surprised if they are cheaper than using wood overall.
The United States has enormous forests and an established logging industry. Switching over to something like brick or stone, except for some parts of the east coast, would involve giving up that industry and starting a new one pretty much from scratch.
That, and there are some parts of the country where you don't want anything but wood-frame or steel-frame. A wood-frame house holds up just fine in an earthquake, as all the pieces are attached to each other. A brick house will fall down, killing the occupants. Compare the results of a major earthquake in southern California (wood-frame, and 50-100 dead) with the results of a major earthquake in Turkey (brick/stone, and 50,000-100,000 dead).
Uploading is easier to prove, and big uploaders are less likely to get sympathy than big downloaders.
The CAVE system uses a head-mounted tracking system to let you move around freely in the 10' by 10' by 10' space. Of course, calibrating the tracking system is a pain, and if it isn't calibrated, things don't look right.
Quest was quite nice in that regard. I simply went online to their "sign me up" web page, provided my address, selected "basic service", selected "no interstate long distance carrier" and "no local long-distance carrier", and then confirmed that I didn't want long distance.
Final bill: $12/mo + $5 in "fees" + $3 in real taxes.
There are plenty of people still using Windows 98 and having a good time. Lord knows how they keep malware off their machine but they do it.
Speaking as someone who's still using Win98, it's actually quite easy -- keeping malware off my machine is why I haven't upgraded, and don't plan to. Simply don't use Internet Explorer, and don't use Outlook Express. Everything else just takes care of itself. 98 isn't like XP, where every service opens ports to the Internet at large.
pack = 4 lbs
tent = 8 lbs (Far too heavy, but it was free, and it's proof against anything short of a Category 2 hurricane)
clothes = 5 lbs (includes rain gear, sandals for river crossings)
cook gear = 4 lbs (including stove fuel)
sleeping gear = 3 lbs
tools = 3 lbs (includes filter pump, first-aid kit, and bear-bagging line)
emergency gear = 2 lbs (everything I need to spend a day and a night outdoors)
Total before food and water: 29 lbs
The only thing here that's more expensive than normal is the sleeping bag. I spent $200 for a two-pound down-filled sleeping bag that's good down to below 20F. The tent's a 30-year-old two-person mountaineering tent; a modern replacement would weigh about 6 pounds and cost around $750, while a modern one-person replacement would weigh about 3 pounds and cost $150-$200.
The key to reducing weight is not to carry lighter stuff, but to carry *less* stuff. Almost everything in my pack can serve at least two purposes: the clothes, for example, double as a pillow at night. Warm gloves can also insulate against hot pans. The sandals are useful for river crossings and camp footgear, while the boots are also used for pounding in tent stakes. Instead of a cup, I carry an extra wide-mouth water bottle. Meals are planned to minimize the amount of cooking gear needed, and I usually eat straight out of the pan.
You're right -- you aren't a physicist. An impulse of 75G is about what you get by dropping the hard drive on a concrete floor.