You mean a few selected stores selling a small selection of goods to a price that's marginally lower than in the real world, without any possible competition at all since the airport decides who should be allowed to sell?
Sounds pretty much like what we'd get without net neutrality, and what the big telcos would like to see.
Answer #2: Since it's now free, everyone can afford it.
Answer #3: These days, you can have the music even if you can't afford it. Since they're at college to learn, they'd better spend their money on books.
Wasn't there enough room on the chip for a 6 bit color lookup?
That's correct. There were only 32 colour registers from the beginning, and the first Amiga 1000s did not have the EHB mode. They did have enough DMA channels/bandwidth for 6 bitplanes though, since they had the 6-bit HAM mode, so using the 6th plane for this was not such a major modification.
Unfortunately they didn't expand the 32 colour registers in the updated AGA chipset in a good way either. You still have 32 x 16-bit registers visible, so to set any one from the full 256-register set you have to bankswitch them in to the visible space. To add insult to injury, each register is only 16 bits, so if you want to set all 24 bits of the colour register, you have to set the "LSB"-bit as well... Updating the full 24-bit, 256 colour palette takes forever:(
Technically, you could only define 32 colours of those 64 (from a total palette of 4096!), the other 32 were actually the same colour but at half the brightness, hence the name of the display mode: EHB - Extra Half-Brite. This was very useful since you could use that extra bit-plane as a shadow-plane, and most palettes had dark and bright versions of the colours anyway.
Of course, this doesn't make it any less superior, just saying...
Then you tune in to the "super ultimate pop radio channel", what's to difficult with that? Most web radios are not obscure. I listen to a couple of different music styles, and there are great web radios for each and every one of them, obscure or not. It sounds like you have to dial a knob and pick up the frequencies. Naturally you just select what kind of music you currently want to listen to, and pick out one of the radio channels left from a menu.
People all over the world are wearing more sunscreen now than ever before.
But mysteriously this does't help against the cellphone radiation.
You're aware that microwave ovens work in the 2.4-3 GHz range right? If that doesn't "affect us" I'm not sure how you define affect.
Of course. It affects us in the same way as a campfire does: local heating. A microwave oven with the same effect as a wifi antenna or a cellphone could hardly heat up anything at all.
considering that we're constantly being exposed to low levels of background radiation, and higher levels of radiation from the Sun.
You know, you might have hit it right on the spot there. People seem to confuse different types of radiation. They assume that just because it's called "radiation", it's the same as the ionizing radiation from the earth and from those evil nucular power stations! It's completely different. A campfire radiates heat, that doesn't mean it will give you cancer.
Electromagnetic radiation doesn't even begin to affect us until they are about one million times higher in frequency than cellphones and wifi. Then we're talking about UV-light, and we have a pretty strong source of that hanging over our heads during the day. I never see EM-sensitive people complain about the sun.
It was pointless since we all understood what you meant the first time. If everyone would reply to their own comments just for fixing minor typos, it would be difficult to find the real information...
No one did jump to any conclusion except you and the journalist. The researcher specifically states that this does not explain any causation, it's just an interesting coincidence. But maybe you didn't RTFA.
This is why they say that it's limited. No one is claiming this is a real turing test. That still doesn't change the fact that this is an interesting test. It's like using a skilled driver on a closed-off racing track to testdrive a prototype car. If it works out ok, you can continue with more stuff.
No, the confusion is caused by insisting on using base ten for a system that doesn't use it.
No, the confusion is caused by insisting on using an SI-prefix that has meant exactly 1000 since 1795 to now mean something else. Hence the new 'kibi' instead of 'kilo'.
Going farther, measuring IO or network performance, to cite two trivial examples, or understanding any of those subjects in general, you're binary to binary.
Interesting that you mention these two examples, since they use base 10 as is proper. 1 Gbit/s means 1,000,000,000 bits/s. From the all-knowing wikipedia:
The megabit is most commonly used when referring to data transfer rates in network speeds, e.g. a 100 Mbit/s (megabit per second) Fast Ethernet connection. In this context, like elsewhere in telecommunications, it always equals 10^6 bits.
I'm very satisfied with my thinkpad x40 in that regard. I guess that's about as small as you can get while still having a keyboard you can use for hours, daily.
Yes, this is what the piracy movement often talk about.
There has never been such a demand for music as there is now, due to easy sharing. Hear something good and you can instantly send it to your friends. The problem is that it's impossible to get it in a format that we want and can use. We have crippled and compressed mp3. I want high quality patent-free formats. The only way I can get it without buying a physical product and later just throw it away is to either listen to free music (more and more common these days), or download "illegally".
the scripts are javascript, so even if you have the most rudimentary understanding of just about any programming language, you can easily figure out what the scripts are doing
I guess you haven't tried to read maps.google.com's javascripts. Check them out.
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You mean a few selected stores selling a small selection of goods to a price that's marginally lower than in the real world, without any possible competition at all since the airport decides who should be allowed to sell?
Sounds pretty much like what we'd get without net neutrality, and what the big telcos would like to see.
Step 2: Vast personal monetary gains for the executives and the FCC.
And because it is written in the holy book it is true and shall always be.
ignoring that stealing anything is illegal is irresponsibleA copyright violation is not stealing.
Answer #1: Why not?
Answer #2: Since it's now free, everyone can afford it.
Answer #3: These days, you can have the music even if you can't afford it. Since they're at college to learn, they'd better spend their money on books.
That's correct. There were only 32 colour registers from the beginning, and the first Amiga 1000s did not have the EHB mode. They did have enough DMA channels/bandwidth for 6 bitplanes though, since they had the 6-bit HAM mode, so using the 6th plane for this was not such a major modification.
Unfortunately they didn't expand the 32 colour registers in the updated AGA chipset in a good way either. You still have 32 x 16-bit registers visible, so to set any one from the full 256-register set you have to bankswitch them in to the visible space. To add insult to injury, each register is only 16 bits, so if you want to set all 24 bits of the colour register, you have to set the "LSB"-bit as well... Updating the full 24-bit, 256 colour palette takes forever :(
Technically, you could only define 32 colours of those 64 (from a total palette of 4096!), the other 32 were actually the same colour but at half the brightness, hence the name of the display mode: EHB - Extra Half-Brite. This was very useful since you could use that extra bit-plane as a shadow-plane, and most palettes had dark and bright versions of the colours anyway.
Of course, this doesn't make it any less superior, just saying...
Then you tune in to the "super ultimate pop radio channel", what's to difficult with that? Most web radios are not obscure. I listen to a couple of different music styles, and there are great web radios for each and every one of them, obscure or not. It sounds like you have to dial a knob and pick up the frequencies. Naturally you just select what kind of music you currently want to listen to, and pick out one of the radio channels left from a menu.
ED! ED is the standard editor!
But mysteriously this does't help against the cellphone radiation.
You're aware that microwave ovens work in the 2.4-3 GHz range right? If that doesn't "affect us" I'm not sure how you define affect.Of course. It affects us in the same way as a campfire does: local heating. A microwave oven with the same effect as a wifi antenna or a cellphone could hardly heat up anything at all.
You know, you might have hit it right on the spot there. People seem to confuse different types of radiation. They assume that just because it's called "radiation", it's the same as the ionizing radiation from the earth and from those evil nucular power stations! It's completely different. A campfire radiates heat, that doesn't mean it will give you cancer.
Electromagnetic radiation doesn't even begin to affect us until they are about one million times higher in frequency than cellphones and wifi. Then we're talking about UV-light, and we have a pretty strong source of that hanging over our heads during the day. I never see EM-sensitive people complain about the sun.
It was pointless since we all understood what you meant the first time. If everyone would reply to their own comments just for fixing minor typos, it would be difficult to find the real information...
It was Miguel de Icaza, and he is paid money indirectly from Microsoft since he works for Novell.
One of the reasons I stopped using GNOME, I don't want anything to do with the Mono project.
No one did jump to any conclusion except you and the journalist. The researcher specifically states that this does not explain any causation, it's just an interesting coincidence. But maybe you didn't RTFA.
What about a fairly high cost for submission (no, not that kind of submission) that you would be refunded if the article is accepted and published?
Ok, sorry, I meant to say "No one to be taken seriously is claiming this is a real turing test." :P
This is why they say that it's limited. No one is claiming this is a real turing test. That still doesn't change the fact that this is an interesting test. It's like using a skilled driver on a closed-off racing track to testdrive a prototype car. If it works out ok, you can continue with more stuff.
What patent? I can't see any link or patent number.
And how long will this stay?
No, the confusion is caused by insisting on using an SI-prefix that has meant exactly 1000 since 1795 to now mean something else. Hence the new 'kibi' instead of 'kilo'.
Going farther, measuring IO or network performance, to cite two trivial examples, or understanding any of those subjects in general, you're binary to binary.Interesting that you mention these two examples, since they use base 10 as is proper. 1 Gbit/s means 1,000,000,000 bits/s. From the all-knowing wikipedia:
The megabit is most commonly used when referring to data transfer rates in network speeds, e.g. a 100 Mbit/s (megabit per second) Fast Ethernet connection. In this context, like elsewhere in telecommunications, it always equals 10^6 bits.I'm very satisfied with my thinkpad x40 in that regard. I guess that's about as small as you can get while still having a keyboard you can use for hours, daily.
If by "astronomically larger" you mean 12.6%, then I'm astronomically larger than the average Indonesian male.
Yes, this is what the piracy movement often talk about.
There has never been such a demand for music as there is now, due to easy sharing. Hear something good and you can instantly send it to your friends. The problem is that it's impossible to get it in a format that we want and can use. We have crippled and compressed mp3. I want high quality patent-free formats. The only way I can get it without buying a physical product and later just throw it away is to either listen to free music (more and more common these days), or download "illegally".
He said us, that clearly excludes girls.
I guess you haven't tried to read maps.google.com's javascripts. Check them out.
Wouldn't help a bit; the good and the bad parts of the software used the same port to the same server in the same way.
run a packet snifferWouldn't help a bit; the good and the bad parts of the software used the same SSL channel, you won't get into that with a normal sniffer.