As I recall, the move that secured the C64's place in market history was the price drop. It originally sold for $595, but in 1984 a combination price drop (to $299) and a $100 trade-in rebate for your videogame console meant you could buy it for $200 at Toys-R-Us. That was the magic number.
You really wanted to LOAD "0:*",8,1, though, because if you left off the "0:" you'd trigger a bug in the 1541 ROMs that would eventually cause you to corrupt a program if you used save-and-replace. (The 0: indicated drive 0 of a dual drive; IIRC those were only produced for earlier PET/CBM computers with an IEEE-488 bus, and not for Commodores - though we did eventually see Lt. Kernal hard drives with partitions 0-9.)
Remember, the people funding this research have a vested interest and a strong desire to have the numbers come out the way they want them to and, no surprise, they generally do.
Yep. I worked on a cybercrime startup idea for a while, and every single "cost of cybercrime" calculation I found - even from government agencies - was based on the same estimate from MarkMonitor. After a few years, MM was able to cite the more "official" sources with a circular reference.
If nothing else, because the sounds you (the musician) hear on overdubs will affect the sounds you sing and play. Late binding and lazy evaluation is not always a feature in music production.
Others have commented on the security benefits of prepared statements, but one problem with them, at least on Postgres: Since you're planning the query before executing it, the planner doesn't have as much information as it will at execution time, and it might not pick the optimal plan - especially if the database changes significantly between PREPARE and EXECUTE.
OTOH, I suppose you could take every statement and turn it into a group of PREPARE/EXECUTE/DEALLOCATE. Not sure if there are performance implications with that, though.
Thanks; I'll check my vitamins for lutein and zeaxanthin. I'm a vegetarian, but a bad one - I'm really more of a pastafarian - so I probably don't get enough anything from dietary intake! FWIW, the silicone hydrogels allegedly let in far more oxygen than hydrogels, although at the moment all the data I'm finding is a physics model saying that's not true and some very strong marketing from hydrogels claiming it doesn't matter.
I've been sleeping in my extended wear lenses as well, and I've worried I'm taking a theoretical risk. Were these modern disposable silicone hydrogels, or the older extended-wear kind? As I understand it, cataracts arose as a side effect of microbial keratitis, and the risks of a severe infection are lower with silicone hydrogels (as well as with disposables in general).
Network Solutions is, in fact, a horrible registrar for corporate domains. This winter we changed our DNS from NetSol to Amazon Route 53. When NetSol repoints domains, it *immediately* starts serving generic "parking page" A records from the old DNS server. Combine this with the fact that many ISPs ignore the SOA TTL record, and you have a domain that's down for over a day for your customers at BellSouth, Cox, RCN, and probably others. We did get them on the phone, and was told "that's the way it works".
Why is 44kHz seen as sufficient to capture all that information?, let alone the complexity of a song?
Because you're thinking of the samples as "points along a line, which I can use to approximate the original wave." The power of Nyquist is that it's not an approximation; those points are sufficient to reproduce the EXACT waveform. A better way to think about it is this:
There is only one waveform that goes through exactly those points. Given those points, you know which waveform it was.
Think of a simpler version: Instead of sine waves, use a straight line. All straight lines are of the form y = mx+b. I have two samples: (1,2) and (2,4). I now have all the information in the original line. Not some of it, not an approximation, not an estimate - ALL of it.
Nyquist/Shannon says that if your sample rate is greater than twice the highest frequency, you have ALL of the information.
You would appreciate the Google calculator thought-experiment, wherein you create a simulated CPU backed by HTTP requests to Google calcuator... and then implement a web browser on top of it.
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Greg Smith's book "High-Performance SQL" is a good start.
80x24 even on a C64 was painful; the best one I saw was VIPTerm from SoftLaw, but there's only so much you can do with a 4x8 pixel grid.
As I recall, the move that secured the C64's place in market history was the price drop. It originally sold for $595, but in 1984 a combination price drop (to $299) and a $100 trade-in rebate for your videogame console meant you could buy it for $200 at Toys-R-Us. That was the magic number.
You really wanted to LOAD "0:*",8,1, though, because if you left off the "0:" you'd trigger a bug in the 1541 ROMs that would eventually cause you to corrupt a program if you used save-and-replace. (The 0: indicated drive 0 of a dual drive; IIRC those were only produced for earlier PET/CBM computers with an IEEE-488 bus, and not for Commodores - though we did eventually see Lt. Kernal hard drives with partitions 0-9.)
On a similar note.. growing up I had a scooter that would do 22mph with one rider, and 5mph with two.
I figure if I'd been able to fit seven people on it, I could go 80mph backwards.
No, you misunderstood the reasoning. The United States takes up more space than England.
Remember, the people funding this research have a vested interest and a strong desire to have the numbers come out the way they want them to and, no surprise, they generally do.
Yep. I worked on a cybercrime startup idea for a while, and every single "cost of cybercrime" calculation I found - even from government agencies - was based on the same estimate from MarkMonitor. After a few years, MM was able to cite the more "official" sources with a circular reference.
If nothing else, because the sounds you (the musician) hear on overdubs will affect the sounds you sing and play. Late binding and lazy evaluation is not always a feature in music production.
GIF patent was on the compression used by GIF, not GIF itself. The patent was held by UNISYS, not AOL/CompuServe.
Oh, we were... I remember trying (and failing) to convince Cisco that they should make some type of load balancer. They didn't see the need.
Others have commented on the security benefits of prepared statements, but one problem with them, at least on Postgres: Since you're planning the query before executing it, the planner doesn't have as much information as it will at execution time, and it might not pick the optimal plan - especially if the database changes significantly between PREPARE and EXECUTE.
OTOH, I suppose you could take every statement and turn it into a group of PREPARE/EXECUTE/DEALLOCATE. Not sure if there are performance implications with that, though.
As George Carlin pointed out, you probably could beat a guy to death with the Sunday New York Times.
What's a New York Times?
I was just thinking "Hasn't Karl Auerback been trying to get the world to realize this for a decade?" Thanks.
latency will finally be a worry of the past
To be replaced by fear of decapitation, no doubt.
They work with the SAS - that's Super Army Soldiers!
So was L. Ron Hubbard right about "engrams" causing PTSD?
Page 194.
Dianetics.
Thanks; I'll check my vitamins for lutein and zeaxanthin. I'm a vegetarian, but a bad one - I'm really more of a pastafarian - so I probably don't get enough anything from dietary intake! FWIW, the silicone hydrogels allegedly let in far more oxygen than hydrogels, although at the moment all the data I'm finding is a physics model saying that's not true and some very strong marketing from hydrogels claiming it doesn't matter.
I've been sleeping in my extended wear lenses as well, and I've worried I'm taking a theoretical risk. Were these modern disposable silicone hydrogels, or the older extended-wear kind? As I understand it, cataracts arose as a side effect of microbial keratitis, and the risks of a severe infection are lower with silicone hydrogels (as well as with disposables in general).
What sort of eye nutrition do you recommend?
They couldn't verify my high school GPA. Not surprising, I graduated 40 years ago.
Suuure, you did. In Kenya.
Network Solutions is, in fact, a horrible registrar for corporate domains. This winter we changed our DNS from NetSol to Amazon Route 53. When NetSol repoints domains, it *immediately* starts serving generic "parking page" A records from the old DNS server. Combine this with the fact that many ISPs ignore the SOA TTL record, and you have a domain that's down for over a day for your customers at BellSouth, Cox, RCN, and probably others. We did get them on the phone, and was told "that's the way it works".
Why is 44kHz seen as sufficient to capture all that information?, let alone the complexity of a song?
Because you're thinking of the samples as "points along a line, which I can use to approximate the original wave." The power of Nyquist is that it's not an approximation; those points are sufficient to reproduce the EXACT waveform. A better way to think about it is this:
There is only one waveform that goes through exactly those points. Given those points, you know which waveform it was.
Think of a simpler version: Instead of sine waves, use a straight line. All straight lines are of the form y = mx+b. I have two samples: (1,2) and (2,4). I now have all the information in the original line. Not some of it, not an approximation, not an estimate - ALL of it.
Nyquist/Shannon says that if your sample rate is greater than twice the highest frequency, you have ALL of the information.
Nah, just an idea I thought up one malicious day..
You would appreciate the Google calculator thought-experiment, wherein you create a simulated CPU backed by HTTP requests to Google calcuator... and then implement a web browser on top of it.
There is no "i" in VerSign.
Well, I mean sure, there's the other one, but there's no first "I".
I mean, yes, technically that second one becomes the first one, but.. Look, there just isn't.
But what if you live in a place without any elected officials?
For instance, I'm in Massachusetts.