I'm pretty sure he was talking about DPI, not overall number of pixels.
i.e. He wants 2560x1600 in a 20" monitor, not a 30"
The reason he can't have it is, of course, down to operating systems and programmers. Most desktop applications would look crap if you tried to change the DPI because they choose fonts by number of pixels, not inches.
So...um, if they find brain cancer in the sector of the population who can't ever seem to put their phones down, will that be diagnosed as a cause or an effect?
The feds aren't thinking of the catwalk models when they slip bags of cocaine into the money-counting machines, they're thinking of the jury's reaction.
As a developer I've had several cases of Antivirus programs thinking my app is a virus.
They've always fixed it after I send them a copy but it causes a bad impression among customers when it happens (most of them are totally paranoid about installing anything anyway.
Imagine: they have to jump through many hoops just to install a demo and when they do it pops up and says "virus". Great, thanks guys.
As a sideline I do virus removals/cleanups and I've seen *every* major antivirus fail to prevent infection on many occasions. They mostly only work for preventing month-old viruses and exploits.
One theory is that it's to tax you when fossil fuels run out (hence no more fuel tax) and people start "filling up" by plugging their cars into the mains supply at home...
In the old days the first thing I did when I got a new graphics card or CPU was to scan the forums for how to re-solder those tiny resistors on the back of the chips to get it to say (eg.) "Quadro" in the properties box instead of "GeForce". These days I don't bother but let the kids have their fun - they're playing games, not running a bank.
Percentages are obviously hard to come by but 20% failure doesn't sound far off (in my experience).
Well...nobody except Microsoft who's broadcasting stuff like this.
I wasn't bothered by the 'nudity', it just seemed stupid - some brainless advertiser having a 'giggle' but ending up looking stupid and ruining the ad (which wasn't exactly brilliant in the first place).
Yep, by this definition *all software* is hardware accelerated, even software running on an emulator (the emulator is hardware accelerated, just not optimized for that instruction set).
Has anything they've implemented since 9/11, or anything they've proposed since 9/11, made it impossible for somebody to stick some C4 and a BIC lighter up their ass?
Wasn't there another story earlier about how only the USA would be getting iPads for the foreseeable future? How much mre non-news could this story be?
That's because there's NO solution to piracy. How the hell can you ever stop digital media from spreading?
The only way to deal with this is to change your product so it's more attractive to consumers than the fake product.
The RIAA's complete refusal to accept this reality is what's causing the problem, ie. that all their products are completely out of sync with the way people listen to music these days. If the pirate products aren't then the consumers are going to choose piracy, it's a no brainer.
The only company who comes close to supplying what consumers are asking for is Apple with iTunes (and they're making money - surprise!).
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I'm pretty sure he was talking about DPI, not overall number of pixels.
i.e. He wants 2560x1600 in a 20" monitor, not a 30"
The reason he can't have it is, of course, down to operating systems and programmers. Most desktop applications would look crap if you tried to change the DPI because they choose fonts by number of pixels, not inches.
So...um, if they find brain cancer in the sector of the population who can't ever seem to put their phones down, will that be diagnosed as a cause or an effect?
...and if you want a really horrible assembly language, try MIPS.
eg. When a MIPS chip hits a branch in a program it doesn't throw away the next instruction in the pipeline, it executes it anyway.
So to call a subroutine "my_sub" with value 3 in register 1 you need to do:
jal my_sub
ld r1,3 ; Will be in the pipeline, and executed before you get to my_sub
32-bit x86 isn't so bad.
The old 16-bit stuff with memory segmentation...? That was nasty.
I used to write ARM assembly on my Acorn Archimedes...it totally pwned the Amiga but it wasn't American so it never stood a chance.
Those were the days. Snif.
Ack. DId you just invent that phrase or are you misremembering it from a PowerPoint presentation you saw last month?
Either way you need to learn a bit more math.
I'd love to be a fly on the wall of Steve Jobs' office if Google offered more.
(Or even Microsoft - aren't they rumored to be moving their data centers to ARM?)
So, um, don't update the firmware....
The feds aren't thinking of the catwalk models when they slip bags of cocaine into the money-counting machines, they're thinking of the jury's reaction.
Ummm....the plastic ones would never be allowed in the USA - they don't absorb cocaine properly.
As a developer I've had several cases of Antivirus programs thinking my app is a virus.
They've always fixed it after I send them a copy but it causes a bad impression among customers when it happens (most of them are totally paranoid about installing anything anyway.
Imagine: they have to jump through many hoops just to install a demo and when they do it pops up and says "virus". Great, thanks guys.
As a sideline I do virus removals/cleanups and I've seen *every* major antivirus fail to prevent infection on many occasions. They mostly only work for preventing month-old viruses and exploits.
A decent antivirus would have every critical Windows whitelisted just to avoid this sort of problem.
This isn't some user-installed application, it's svchost.exe.
One theory is that it's to tax you when fossil fuels run out (hence no more fuel tax) and people start "filling up" by plugging their cars into the mains supply at home...
I did that and mine worked perfectly...!
In the past it's been done by a combination of BIOS and/or those tiny resistors soldered to the back of the chip.
In the old days the first thing I did when I got a new graphics card or CPU was to scan the forums for how to re-solder those tiny resistors on the back of the chips to get it to say (eg.) "Quadro" in the properties box instead of "GeForce". These days I don't bother but let the kids have their fun - they're playing games, not running a bank.
Percentages are obviously hard to come by but 20% failure doesn't sound far off (in my experience).
History has shown that there's a pretty good chance that it _was_ binned for marketing reasons.
(ie. In many previous CPUs, graphics cards, etc. you had to be pretty unlucky to get one which didn't work perfectly)
There's no reason to believe a brute force attack on AES128 will ever succeed.
You only need secure transmission of keys. After that you don't care.
(I guess this is just "research"...)
Well...nobody except Microsoft who's broadcasting stuff like this.
I wasn't bothered by the 'nudity', it just seemed stupid - some brainless advertiser having a 'giggle' but ending up looking stupid and ruining the ad (which wasn't exactly brilliant in the first place).
Yep, by this definition *all software* is hardware accelerated, even software running on an emulator (the emulator is hardware accelerated, just not optimized for that instruction set).
Most of them will open it if you ask them.
If not, a paid-for domain with email is dirt cheap these days - three bucks a month should cover it.
Has anything they've implemented since 9/11, or anything they've proposed since 9/11, made it impossible for somebody to stick some C4 and a BIC lighter up their ass?
No...? So what's the point?
Wasn't there another story earlier about how only the USA would be getting iPads for the foreseeable future? How much mre non-news could this story be?
That's because there's NO solution to piracy. How the hell can you ever stop digital media from spreading?
The only way to deal with this is to change your product so it's more attractive to consumers than the fake product.
The RIAA's complete refusal to accept this reality is what's causing the problem, ie. that all their products are completely out of sync with the way people listen to music these days. If the pirate products aren't then the consumers are going to choose piracy, it's a no brainer.
The only company who comes close to supplying what consumers are asking for is Apple with iTunes (and they're making money - surprise!).