No, six bitplane (HAM or not) only stole half of the CPU's RAM access cycles in the visible screen area. There was actually enough memory bandwidth to run eight bitplanes at 320 resolution, ie 256 independent colors, if the designers had really wanted to.
OK. It ran at half speed.
Still, the point stands. 4096 color mode was only useful for static, photographic-type images. You certainly couldn't play games or draw general text/graphics with 4096 colors.
Also: Turning on six bitplanes for HAM mode basically took all the RAM access cycles in the visible screen area. The CPU could only run in the border areas while it was showing a 4096 color image.
No, but it could do higher resolution with 256 colors and the horizontal pixels weren't interdependent like on the Amiga.
Remember that the Amiga 4096 color mode could only change one of R, G or B at each pixel (HAM mode) so you couldn't use it for anything much other than showing photographs. eg. You couldn't draw a diagonal colored line across the screen because a colored line needs to modify RG+B at each pixel.
Let's all guess why they are keeping it secret. I'll bet pretty much anything, that a bunch of customs agents where going through attractive women's photo albums and pilfering images used for sexting, oh yeah and doing it a lot.
Remember, these are the same people who steal the iphones and laptops from your checked baggage.
Lets be realistic. They search the cute foreign girls on 'advanced' mode and keep the thumb drives to bring home to search for nudes at night.
You know it's happening.
This.
Just like they make cute girls go through the body scanner a second time and call all their friends over to make really sure she's not hiding anything.
Nope. The answer is that they are....or maybe you think internal combustion engines are a model of efficiency and that gasoline is made of unicorn tears and is carried to the gas stations by pixies riding on rainbows.
Co-pilots are going to be a thing in commercial aviation for the foreseeable future. Its unlikely automation is going to advance to the point where co-pilots are redundant any time soon.
That's just an opinion based on current large commercial airliners.
Those same airliners used to have flight engineers on board but they've been made redundant by automation.
Do you think copilots are necessary in automobiles? Large trucks? Why not?
We need to know numbers/causes before we draw any conclusions.
eg. How many flights total? How many of those were because people shoot at drones and generally want to do bad things to them?
Then there's the mentality: The Air Force probably see drones as expendable so they probably aren't spending much time/effort to avoid crashes where no humans are involved.
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I want to know what "Door censors" are
(and if I should be using them as part of my security setup)
Microsoft could have quietly update Edge in a matter of hours and pushed out an update if this was really a problem for them.
Instead they use it as an excuse to claim butthurt.
a) Anybody else remember the "DOS ain't done until Lotus won't run" days of Microsoft.
b) Microsoft could have pushed out an update to Edge in a matter of hours if they really wanted to. This is just a pot calling a kettle 'black'.
...and the Archimedes in software could eat the Amiga blitter for breakfast and ask for a second helping.
No, six bitplane (HAM or not) only stole half of the CPU's RAM access cycles in the visible screen area. There was actually enough memory bandwidth to run eight bitplanes at 320 resolution, ie 256 independent colors, if the designers had really wanted to.
OK. It ran at half speed.
Still, the point stands. 4096 color mode was only useful for static, photographic-type images. You certainly couldn't play games or draw general text/graphics with 4096 colors.
I had an A2000 and it was simple.
Sure ... on a 2000. But it was already over by then.
The 2000 was the machine to have and that had a built in HD controller, I believe. Back then, HDs were cutting edge and expensive!
Sure, but it was all over before the Amiga 2000 appeared. IBM had won.
On an Amiga 500? I doubt that.
So.... in the next elections all the Russians need to do is get google to answer "Yes" when people ask "Should I vote for Trump". Election won!
Democracy at its finest.
I'm constantly being told California is a paradise. Why would anyone want to leave?
It's expensive to live in a nice place.
People can sell their house in California and buy a place twice as big somewhere else.
Also: Turning on six bitplanes for HAM mode basically took all the RAM access cycles in the visible screen area. The CPU could only run in the border areas while it was showing a 4096 color image.
Did you ever try to add a hard disk to an Amiga?
No.
It was a nightmare, it just wasn't designed for it.
IBM PC's were.
No, but it could do higher resolution with 256 colors and the horizontal pixels weren't interdependent like on the Amiga.
Remember that the Amiga 4096 color mode could only change one of R, G or B at each pixel (HAM mode) so you couldn't use it for anything much other than showing photographs. eg. You couldn't draw a diagonal colored line across the screen because a colored line needs to modify RG+B at each pixel.
IBM PCs went to 3.5" floppys soon after.
I remember seeing the first Amiga in the mid-80s, and it was obvious that it was superior to the x86-PC.
Superior at what? At flashy scrolling graphics demos?
Did you ever try to add a hard disk to an Amiga?
The reason people bought IBM PCs was because they ran Lotus 123. They didn't care whether they had a genlock add-on or not.
Yep. I had one and it could whip the Amiga's ass, doing more in software than the Amiga could do in hardware.
Shut up and watch the kardashians. Important things are happening.
Maybe you could read Heinlein's "Take Back Your Government".
If not, you're getting the government you deserve.
Let's all guess why they are keeping it secret. I'll bet pretty much anything, that a bunch of customs agents where going through attractive women's photo albums and pilfering images used for sexting, oh yeah and doing it a lot.
Remember, these are the same people who steal the iphones and laptops from your checked baggage.
Lets be realistic. They search the cute foreign girls on 'advanced' mode and keep the thumb drives to bring home to search for nudes at night.
You know it's happening.
This.
Just like they make cute girls go through the body scanner a second time and call all their friends over to make really sure she's not hiding anything.
Good luck enforcing that when you're facing the TSA at an airport and want to get somewhere.
You mean those coal mining jobs being bought by Trump aren't permanent?
The answer is that they're not,
Nope. The answer is that they are . ...or maybe you think internal combustion engines are a model of efficiency and that gasoline is made of unicorn tears and is carried to the gas stations by pixies riding on rainbows.
Co-pilots are going to be a thing in commercial aviation for the foreseeable future. Its unlikely automation is going to advance to the point where co-pilots are redundant any time soon.
That's just an opinion based on current large commercial airliners.
Those same airliners used to have flight engineers on board but they've been made redundant by automation.
Do you think copilots are necessary in automobiles? Large trucks? Why not?
We need to know numbers/causes before we draw any conclusions.
eg. How many flights total? How many of those were because people shoot at drones and generally want to do bad things to them?
Then there's the mentality: The Air Force probably see drones as expendable so they probably aren't spending much time/effort to avoid crashes where no humans are involved.