The article is right about FDIV. The chance of it happening was infinitesimal and it was really any worse than other bugs in contemporary CPUs of that time. A bug in Excel is a much bigger issue for most folks and I for one never bothered to have my P60 replaced.
Except you could also consider that European settlers had a vaccine to smallpox that could have been traded/given to the Indians
Not really. Smallpox raced ahead of European settlers so the majority of dead died before Europeans knew they existed. Whole tribes could have been wiped out, leaving no history behind.
The only app on any Mac or Windows computer I use (and that's a handful) which gives this kind of error and Adobe blames the OS vendors.
I've gotten that with MS Excel but only on networked drives. Had to save as another file and then log off/on because I couldn't simply unmap the drive "while a file is in use". Sigh.
Statistics are always misleading however, being political tools and by their very nature of reducing large datasets into curves and numbers (a form of lossy compression one could say).
[quote]The real problem with IE is how broken, unsafe and unstandard is.[/quote]
IE8 has a good track record for safety and is considered up there with Chrome as one of the safer browsers you can use, but that does not help IE6 and 7.
In spite of. Thought that was obvious. I know my country is not without sin, for instance we tried to forcefully assimilate our natives - fortunately we failed - and after WW2 we put half-German children into what were essentially rape camps. Both acts we regret and we're now actively promoting native culture and language in an attempt to undo the damage of the last one hundred years.
Are you saying millions of dead agrees with me that Russia's agricultural policy failed and that China had to struggle with imperialism or did you mean to imply something else?
We socialists are doing quite well thank you. As for Stalin, he had a very weird view on "science" which included executing any scientist he didn't like, promoting useless research into the paranormal and laughable agricultural methods that basically led to their agriculture dropping so low Russia had to import food for the first time in history. China OTOH had to struggle to fight of imperialism while dealing with sanctions and what not but seems to be doing quite well now, better than democratic India even.
I for one hope the whole central app store thing die a fiery death or I fear we'll one day have all the tech and infrastructure for "oppressive government 2.0" to bloom. Just add terrorism, a little religious paranoia and think of the children.
And, ultimately, it was Apple adopting it that made it take off.
I doubt that. Apple adopting the format certainly didn't hurt but they were just one of many companies adopting it and they went about it in such a way that the 1984 Mac's floppies were unreadable by anyone else. PCs would go on to adopt the later HD floppy standard three years after the Mac, but while HD floppy drives were constructed to be able to read and write DD floppies the PC could not read Mac floppies.
Yeah, loved how the movie was one big propaganda piece for the "bad guys". In the book humans aren't "the bad guys" and the bugs really are the aggressors, etc, making the book just another forgettable scifi skit.
Doing a Bing and Google search on 'why is windows so expensive' returns similar results here (note, I use quotation marks when I search since it usually helps Google return more relevant results).
The few times I've tried bing it has always returned worse results than Google, even when searching for Microsoft stuff. Google isn't without issues though as it is spammed with "linkfarms" or whatever it's called, making Google far less useful today that it was five years ago.
Bandwidth and storage space math isn't like for like whenever everything uses base-10 or base-2, you have to factor in overhead if you really need everything to fit - even the boring old CD use different encoding depending on if your storing video/audio/data/dreamcast bits. Regardless, when people want to rip a CD they don't care about memory buffers or even storage space these days and if you do you should have brains enough to figure out the exact byte or bit count anyhow.
floppies weren't even consistent with themselves most being 1.44*1000*1024 bytes.
The formatted capacity of a floppy is 1.47 or 1.41 depending on what base you use - but marketing folks liked 1.44 better and went with that. For additional fun the Amiga can cram 1.76 MB (base-2 BTW) onto a 1.44 MB floppy.
Because except for DRAM modules, the context for data quantities has *never* been unambiguous.
You're referring to HDD manufactures right? I've never heard of pseudo base 2 but HDD folks are pretty much the only ones using base-10 for binary. This leads to me using base-10 in the context of HDD capacities, problem solved. If for some reason I need to make sure people know the exact number of bytes I'm talking about I'll clarify that I'm talking about 1000 or 1024 and perhaps add that each byte is 8-bit since that's not always the case either.
As a particularly stupid and long standing example, a "1.44 MB" floppy contains 1474560 bytes. That puts two conflicting "contexts" into a single number!
Um, a "1.44" MB floppy does not contain 1.44 MB of base-10 or base-2 bytes. It's just a marketing number, in actuality the "real" floppy capacity is 2 MB.
Human language is context based; meaning the exact meaning of words depends on in which context they are used. Why should it be different for prefixes? Just so a few morons won't be confused? Pah... morons being morons will just find something else to be confused about.
You don't have to get the absolute best ya know? OnLive - a youtube like gaming service - is unlikely to give you a better gaming experience than a $70 graphic card. If you got to have the absolute best graphics out there then the PS360 is already getting long in the tooth and MS/Sony is fretting more about their Wii inspired controllers than graphics these days.
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EyeTV TV tuner
Isn't that just a round about way to say you have a TV, it's just in your computer?
The article is right about FDIV. The chance of it happening was infinitesimal and it was really any worse than other bugs in contemporary CPUs of that time. A bug in Excel is a much bigger issue for most folks and I for one never bothered to have my P60 replaced.
Wait a minute? You guys actually have THREE competing mobile carrier technologies in the US?
"Mr. President. The hackers may have cracked GSM and CDMA!"
Smug smile: "Don't worry, there's is another."
Except you could also consider that European settlers had a vaccine to smallpox that could have been traded/given to the Indians
Not really. Smallpox raced ahead of European settlers so the majority of dead died before Europeans knew they existed. Whole tribes could have been wiped out, leaving no history behind.
Yo USAians. Yellowstone geothermal power plant sounds a lot better than "ground zero". I'm sure you got the tech... Right?
Thanks, will have to remember that.
The chip in my brain says they don't.
You silly americans. Wasting time on sophisticated chip in brain when bullet in brain works almost as good and pass through tinfoil.
The only app on any Mac or Windows computer I use (and that's a handful) which gives this kind of error and Adobe blames the OS vendors.
I've gotten that with MS Excel but only on networked drives. Had to save as another file and then log off/on because I couldn't simply unmap the drive "while a file is in use". Sigh.
which is measured differently than pretty much every other First World nation on the planet
Says in the Wikipedia article that UNICEF tries to compensate for such errors in their statistics. Sourced from here: http://mdgs.un.org/unsd/mdg/Metadata.aspx?IndicatorId=0&SeriesId=562
Statistics are always misleading however, being political tools and by their very nature of reducing large datasets into curves and numbers (a form of lossy compression one could say).
[quote]The real problem with IE is how broken, unsafe and unstandard is.[/quote] IE8 has a good track record for safety and is considered up there with Chrome as one of the safer browsers you can use, but that does not help IE6 and 7.
A crappy old green 720×348 graphic card?
Okay okay, I'm an idiot for even thinking it.
In spite of. Thought that was obvious. I know my country is not without sin, for instance we tried to forcefully assimilate our natives - fortunately we failed - and after WW2 we put half-German children into what were essentially rape camps. Both acts we regret and we're now actively promoting native culture and language in an attempt to undo the damage of the last one hundred years.
Are you saying millions of dead agrees with me that Russia's agricultural policy failed and that China had to struggle with imperialism or did you mean to imply something else?
We socialists are doing quite well thank you. As for Stalin, he had a very weird view on "science" which included executing any scientist he didn't like, promoting useless research into the paranormal and laughable agricultural methods that basically led to their agriculture dropping so low Russia had to import food for the first time in history. China OTOH had to struggle to fight of imperialism while dealing with sanctions and what not but seems to be doing quite well now, better than democratic India even.
I for one hope the whole central app store thing die a fiery death or I fear we'll one day have all the tech and infrastructure for "oppressive government 2.0" to bloom. Just add terrorism, a little religious paranoia and think of the children.
You're right, that makes absolutely no sense. Like slapping your most loyal customers in the face.
And, ultimately, it was Apple adopting it that made it take off.
I doubt that. Apple adopting the format certainly didn't hurt but they were just one of many companies adopting it and they went about it in such a way that the 1984 Mac's floppies were unreadable by anyone else. PCs would go on to adopt the later HD floppy standard three years after the Mac, but while HD floppy drives were constructed to be able to read and write DD floppies the PC could not read Mac floppies.
Yeah, loved how the movie was one big propaganda piece for the "bad guys". In the book humans aren't "the bad guys" and the bugs really are the aggressors, etc, making the book just another forgettable scifi skit.
Doing a Bing and Google search on 'why is windows so expensive' returns similar results here (note, I use quotation marks when I search since it usually helps Google return more relevant results).
The few times I've tried bing it has always returned worse results than Google, even when searching for Microsoft stuff. Google isn't without issues though as it is spammed with "linkfarms" or whatever it's called, making Google far less useful today that it was five years ago.
Brilliant, I will have to try this.
floppies weren't even consistent with themselves most being 1.44*1000*1024 bytes.
The formatted capacity of a floppy is 1.47 or 1.41 depending on what base you use - but marketing folks liked 1.44 better and went with that. For additional fun the Amiga can cram 1.76 MB (base-2 BTW) onto a 1.44 MB floppy.
Because except for DRAM modules, the context for data quantities has *never* been unambiguous.
You're referring to HDD manufactures right? I've never heard of pseudo base 2 but HDD folks are pretty much the only ones using base-10 for binary. This leads to me using base-10 in the context of HDD capacities, problem solved. If for some reason I need to make sure people know the exact number of bytes I'm talking about I'll clarify that I'm talking about 1000 or 1024 and perhaps add that each byte is 8-bit since that's not always the case either.
As a particularly stupid and long standing example, a "1.44 MB" floppy contains 1474560 bytes. That puts two conflicting "contexts" into a single number!
Um, a "1.44" MB floppy does not contain 1.44 MB of base-10 or base-2 bytes. It's just a marketing number, in actuality the "real" floppy capacity is 2 MB.
Human language is context based; meaning the exact meaning of words depends on in which context they are used. Why should it be different for prefixes? Just so a few morons won't be confused? Pah... morons being morons will just find something else to be confused about.
With a PSU like that?
GTX480 SLI is your only hope at making good use of it.
You don't have to get the absolute best ya know? OnLive - a youtube like gaming service - is unlikely to give you a better gaming experience than a $70 graphic card. If you got to have the absolute best graphics out there then the PS360 is already getting long in the tooth and MS/Sony is fretting more about their Wii inspired controllers than graphics these days.