Moore's law didn't predict the clock speed at which processors run, but the number of transistors that can be fit on a chip. Today's 3.0GHz chips run faster than the ones from 5 years ago, due to various design changes that didn't impact the clock speed.
A belief that we may gain a greater understanding of physics in the future and find a loophole around currently theorized limits is personally insulting to you? As opposed to, what, calling someone with a more interesting post than yours "parasite", and instructing them to kill themselves?
Yup. Oz is say the computer needs power and storage (or maybe a case? Dunno). It'll hum along perfectly happy without having an OS. It won't be very useful, of course, but....
OK, I've got a collection of old-ass game systems that I bought because I like a lot of the older stuff, but that's just silly to say that nothing decent or original has come out since 2001. Patapon, the Lego games, World of Goo, Lumines, Braid, FF7: Crisis Core...they're all awesome games. If I were home, I could list off a whole *stack* of awesome games that aren't FPS, GTA, or sports. I won't say that you have ADD, but I will say that you sound unreasonable, and you get mad at the stupidest things.
There are encryption algorithms that are (in the practical sense) impossible to crack, and the key can be made very difficult to access. It being "just" a matter of cracking the files can be a significant roadblock in and of itself. So, while I'm sure that anything they put out will *eventually* be cracked, I wouldn't necessarily count on it being a quick process. Just because the data is there doesn't mean that it's easy to figure out how to decrypt it.
There's the UPC barcode on the box itself, and an opening in the box, where the serial-number for that specific console is visible. Most stores have to scan both of those in order to sell the console. It's a fairly standard practice, as was previously mentioned.
Really, the way an emulator works is pretty simple. It's just a state machine with a large section of memory. It's very easy to control which states that machine can enter, and to make sure that "exploiting a hole" is impossible. Even the app (the emulator) is incapable of running arbitrary code on the iPhone; it has to stay within the public API.
My first computer was a couple years later...an IBM PC Jr. Still, I had friends with C64s (as recently as 1995), and I've got a couple Atari systems sitting in my living room. I grew up using Apple IIe's and IIc's at school. I definitely recognized the C64 and its peripherals...I've considered tracking one down to play around with, then decided I've already got enough old pieces of equipment that I'm never going to *seriously* use. I guess I'm a little unusual, but I don't think that "age >=30" is a requirement for knowing what a data cassette drive looks like.
Security? No, they want control. There's a difference. Apple has always had control over their platforms. The iPhone is just an attempt to provide more functionality for less work, while maintaining the same control they've had over their other platforms.
Apple's paranoia plus the paranoia that a telecom operator has for equipment used on their network...a potent mix!
I have an iPod Touch. It's a wonderful gadget, and I can have some real fun with it jailbroken!
Walking through submarines, I remember most of the crew sleeping quarters being bunks recessed into the sides of the hallways. Along other parts of the central corridor were storage and equipment bins. There was "unused" travel space, but it was at the absolute smallest size possible, along for 2 (small) people to scoot past each other, perhaps.
Me, when I don't want my asshole friends torrenting Lord-only-knows-what over my internet connection, and I'm too lazy to set up some sort of packet filtering.
I'm sure updated pirate servers will be able to work with the games once the games are released and reverse-engineered. There *will* be some way to play it over LAN, just not at launch, and not without some work both on the parts of the "Battle.net replacement" programmers, and the individuals setting up their own servers.
If they choose to spend the time to learn how, of course. It's still not something that the average person will be likely to have the drive to research on their own and get working. Setting up a web server is also a "basic networking"-type task, but the percentage of gamers that I'd trust to do it is pretty small.
Face it, as much as it irks someone with technical knowhow (and will irritate luddite gamers when it causes problems), not enough people know enough about the situation to care that online play will be Battle.net only.
And Switzerland requires citizens to have assault rifles in their homes. It's not the presence of firearms that causes the problem; it's the cultural differences. We're right next to Mexico. You're trying to tell me that people that shirk the law aren't going to get their guns regardless of their legality in this country?
But in reality, most discographies have a couple hundred people on the network at any given time, if that. The only things that hit 10s of thousands of sharers are popular tv shows and early-leaked movies.
I don't care for iTunes, since most of the music on it is DRM-laden, and I refuse to buy music that behaves on someone else's whim. I want it to function wherever I choose to put it, and I want to use it on Linux. The digital music I buy? CDs. It's still the highest quality stuff that's widely available, and sometimes I choose to support favorite artists, even when it's *much* easier, cheaper, and more convenient to go download some files.
No one downloads because they're trying to make money, and no one is specifically looking to rip off the music companies. I think that the normal mindset (including my own) is that radio is free to listen to, so why can't I build a collection of music like they have, where I'm in control of what plays at any given time? I'm not saying that it's correct from a legal or moral standpoint, but that's the way I think, and I'm sure that some people share my viewpoint on the subject.
What needs to be done is have a subscription service that works across all platforms, costs some money ($15 a month? $30 a month?), and has a good catalog. That wouldn't solve everything, but it would be a steady stream of money, and it wouldn't be too hard to track which artists are the most listened to, and distribute the money accordingly.
I don't care what the purpose of the payments is. I just know that charging a single mother almost $2 million in damages, when those damages can't even be proven, is a travesty. It's an injustice, and it *definitely* isn't in proportion to the magnitude of the crime.
If you damage your car, you can replace the part of the car that got damaged. If you damage your optical media, there's no legal way of getting replacement for the damaged data short of buying a new copy of the thing. Car damage doesn't cost pennies to repair either, the way that replacing a movie disk does. They aren't really comparable situations.
If someone decides to take the less logical approach (i.e. believing in creationism rather than a scientific explanation of the universe), that's their choice. Ditto if they want to teach their children that way. You can't dictate that someone should change their personal beliefs, or tell them not to tell others about their beliefs simply because they don't consistently match with reality. Sure, it would be better if they acknowledged the soundness of the scientific view, but I'm uncomfortable with the idea that they should be required to or something. Similarly, if they press their beliefs on someone else, I don't like that, but that's more the problem with "a creationist" than it is with "creationism" itself. If someone chooses to go on believing what you term fairy tales, it's time to shake your head sadly and walk past. If they start actually harming you, there's going to be some law to handle it. I don't know. Harassment or something. My point is that some people don't care how much evidence you have against their beliefs, they don't care that the world thinks they're wrong, and they certainly don't care that everyone else thinks they're an idiot. You end up making more benefit to society by ignoring the crackpot, teaching whatever children are under your care the things that you believe, and spending your time more productively elsewhere.
That would be dendrites that grow, not axons. New dendritic connections are how new connections are made between neurons, i.e. "learning". Any time something learns, whether it's a human or a dog, new connections are being formed. When a dog learns that their master rings a bell around feeding time, new connections are being made. Operant conditioning is just a controlled form of causing a subject to learn (create new connections in their brain).
And other countries have proven that you can have a perfectly calm and reasonable society, with nearly every citizen owning an assault rifle, e.g. Switzerland. It all has to do with the culture of the country, not the inherent risks or benefits of guns. They're a tool. If there's a culture of misusing the tool, then that's a dangerous place to have that tool openly available in. If it remains as a last-resort defensive weapon, as was probably intended by the US Constitution, then gun control doesn't make nearly as much sense.
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Moore's law didn't predict the clock speed at which processors run, but the number of transistors that can be fit on a chip. Today's 3.0GHz chips run faster than the ones from 5 years ago, due to various design changes that didn't impact the clock speed.
A belief that we may gain a greater understanding of physics in the future and find a loophole around currently theorized limits is personally insulting to you? As opposed to, what, calling someone with a more interesting post than yours "parasite", and instructing them to kill themselves?
IPC is "inter-process communication". Passing information between different processes and/or threads, for instance.
Yup. Oz is say the computer needs power and storage (or maybe a case? Dunno). It'll hum along perfectly happy without having an OS. It won't be very useful, of course, but....
But that's what they've elected to do, and it seems to have worked out well for them so far.
OK, I've got a collection of old-ass game systems that I bought because I like a lot of the older stuff, but that's just silly to say that nothing decent or original has come out since 2001. Patapon, the Lego games, World of Goo, Lumines, Braid, FF7: Crisis Core...they're all awesome games. If I were home, I could list off a whole *stack* of awesome games that aren't FPS, GTA, or sports. I won't say that you have ADD, but I will say that you sound unreasonable, and you get mad at the stupidest things.
There are encryption algorithms that are (in the practical sense) impossible to crack, and the key can be made very difficult to access. It being "just" a matter of cracking the files can be a significant roadblock in and of itself. So, while I'm sure that anything they put out will *eventually* be cracked, I wouldn't necessarily count on it being a quick process. Just because the data is there doesn't mean that it's easy to figure out how to decrypt it.
There's the UPC barcode on the box itself, and an opening in the box, where the serial-number for that specific console is visible. Most stores have to scan both of those in order to sell the console. It's a fairly standard practice, as was previously mentioned.
It's a number, giving a memory address. BFFF is 49,151 in decimal.
Really, the way an emulator works is pretty simple. It's just a state machine with a large section of memory. It's very easy to control which states that machine can enter, and to make sure that "exploiting a hole" is impossible. Even the app (the emulator) is incapable of running arbitrary code on the iPhone; it has to stay within the public API.
My first computer was a couple years later...an IBM PC Jr. Still, I had friends with C64s (as recently as 1995), and I've got a couple Atari systems sitting in my living room. I grew up using Apple IIe's and IIc's at school. I definitely recognized the C64 and its peripherals...I've considered tracking one down to play around with, then decided I've already got enough old pieces of equipment that I'm never going to *seriously* use. I guess I'm a little unusual, but I don't think that "age >=30" is a requirement for knowing what a data cassette drive looks like.
Security? No, they want control. There's a difference. Apple has always had control over their platforms. The iPhone is just an attempt to provide more functionality for less work, while maintaining the same control they've had over their other platforms.
Apple's paranoia plus the paranoia that a telecom operator has for equipment used on their network...a potent mix!
I have an iPod Touch. It's a wonderful gadget, and I can have some real fun with it jailbroken!
Walking through submarines, I remember most of the crew sleeping quarters being bunks recessed into the sides of the hallways. Along other parts of the central corridor were storage and equipment bins. There was "unused" travel space, but it was at the absolute smallest size possible, along for 2 (small) people to scoot past each other, perhaps.
Me, when I don't want my asshole friends torrenting Lord-only-knows-what over my internet connection, and I'm too lazy to set up some sort of packet filtering.
I'm sure updated pirate servers will be able to work with the games once the games are released and reverse-engineered. There *will* be some way to play it over LAN, just not at launch, and not without some work both on the parts of the "Battle.net replacement" programmers, and the individuals setting up their own servers.
If they choose to spend the time to learn how, of course. It's still not something that the average person will be likely to have the drive to research on their own and get working. Setting up a web server is also a "basic networking"-type task, but the percentage of gamers that I'd trust to do it is pretty small.
Face it, as much as it irks someone with technical knowhow (and will irritate luddite gamers when it causes problems), not enough people know enough about the situation to care that online play will be Battle.net only.
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Wow, we've sunk low enough to have discussions of monetary pedophilia! When will the debauchery end???
And Switzerland requires citizens to have assault rifles in their homes. It's not the presence of firearms that causes the problem; it's the cultural differences. We're right next to Mexico. You're trying to tell me that people that shirk the law aren't going to get their guns regardless of their legality in this country?
But in reality, most discographies have a couple hundred people on the network at any given time, if that. The only things that hit 10s of thousands of sharers are popular tv shows and early-leaked movies.
I don't care for iTunes, since most of the music on it is DRM-laden, and I refuse to buy music that behaves on someone else's whim. I want it to function wherever I choose to put it, and I want to use it on Linux. The digital music I buy? CDs. It's still the highest quality stuff that's widely available, and sometimes I choose to support favorite artists, even when it's *much* easier, cheaper, and more convenient to go download some files.
No one downloads because they're trying to make money, and no one is specifically looking to rip off the music companies. I think that the normal mindset (including my own) is that radio is free to listen to, so why can't I build a collection of music like they have, where I'm in control of what plays at any given time? I'm not saying that it's correct from a legal or moral standpoint, but that's the way I think, and I'm sure that some people share my viewpoint on the subject.
What needs to be done is have a subscription service that works across all platforms, costs some money ($15 a month? $30 a month?), and has a good catalog. That wouldn't solve everything, but it would be a steady stream of money, and it wouldn't be too hard to track which artists are the most listened to, and distribute the money accordingly.
I don't care what the purpose of the payments is. I just know that charging a single mother almost $2 million in damages, when those damages can't even be proven, is a travesty. It's an injustice, and it *definitely* isn't in proportion to the magnitude of the crime.
This is the closest thing that I found. It has all sorts of information about the history and purpose of Wikipedia.
If you damage your car, you can replace the part of the car that got damaged. If you damage your optical media, there's no legal way of getting replacement for the damaged data short of buying a new copy of the thing. Car damage doesn't cost pennies to repair either, the way that replacing a movie disk does. They aren't really comparable situations.
If someone decides to take the less logical approach (i.e. believing in creationism rather than a scientific explanation of the universe), that's their choice. Ditto if they want to teach their children that way. You can't dictate that someone should change their personal beliefs, or tell them not to tell others about their beliefs simply because they don't consistently match with reality. Sure, it would be better if they acknowledged the soundness of the scientific view, but I'm uncomfortable with the idea that they should be required to or something. Similarly, if they press their beliefs on someone else, I don't like that, but that's more the problem with "a creationist" than it is with "creationism" itself. If someone chooses to go on believing what you term fairy tales, it's time to shake your head sadly and walk past. If they start actually harming you, there's going to be some law to handle it. I don't know. Harassment or something. My point is that some people don't care how much evidence you have against their beliefs, they don't care that the world thinks they're wrong, and they certainly don't care that everyone else thinks they're an idiot. You end up making more benefit to society by ignoring the crackpot, teaching whatever children are under your care the things that you believe, and spending your time more productively elsewhere.
Hallucination due to oxygen deprivation to the brain?
That would be dendrites that grow, not axons. New dendritic connections are how new connections are made between neurons, i.e. "learning". Any time something learns, whether it's a human or a dog, new connections are being formed. When a dog learns that their master rings a bell around feeding time, new connections are being made. Operant conditioning is just a controlled form of causing a subject to learn (create new connections in their brain).
And other countries have proven that you can have a perfectly calm and reasonable society, with nearly every citizen owning an assault rifle, e.g. Switzerland. It all has to do with the culture of the country, not the inherent risks or benefits of guns. They're a tool. If there's a culture of misusing the tool, then that's a dangerous place to have that tool openly available in. If it remains as a last-resort defensive weapon, as was probably intended by the US Constitution, then gun control doesn't make nearly as much sense.