The number of colors is calculated from the number of bits in the color lookup table for any color number. For example if the CLT had 24 bit color, 8R 8G 8B, that is 2^24 colors. If it has a sixteen bit such as a 6-5-5, the number of colors would be 2^16. That is what the color count is about, not how many colors of pixels there are. Anyone that has written a color display driver knows this...
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
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The periodica reinvention of American Culture is a form of evolution. And I think that is a good thing. DRM is a cancer. What have you got against American Culture? No more food fr you.
I am so grateful that this dialogue finally got around to a serious issue. What makes TCP go is the sliding window protocol, and now that memory is cheap, the window should be potentially very wide. At 2400 Baud, 8 buffers might have been an improvement. Our contemporary computers have unimaginable amounts of ram compared to the old days. We should be able to tune up the protocols on that basis and improve the throughput of the network. IMHO
The real question is whether the Internet users at large would help pay for robust infrastructure at w3 to support this.
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I just don't get it. In the last year or so, Cingular/AT&T have made a huge effort to roll out the 3G service all over America. It is even in my small town recently. I would have considered it a coup by Cingular/AT&T to get the iPhone with 3G support because it would have arrived just as they finally had the 3G infrastructure to support decent connection speed.
I tried the Cingular EDGE service a few months ago, and it was awful. All web access was routed through a proxy server somewhere that degraded image quality to accelerate download speeds. It was minimully better than dialup and I cancelled the service two days after signing up. With 3G service it would have been better IMHO.
The iPhone has some cool features, but with crippled wireless hardware it is going to be an uphill battle trying to compete with any other smart phone that Cingular may sell that has 3G support and can leverage off AT&T's recent investments. This campaign looks like a trainwreck leaving the station.
When I bought my last notebook (The VAIO), Geeksquad quoted me a price for the 2GB memory upgrade, and half an hour later after the chips were in, the price was $50 more than expected. The geeks shrugged their shoulders and pointed at my guy and said, "He's new here". That will officially be my last trip to the geeksquad counter.
Maybe they didn't change their password technique at all, but just started shipping highly unreliable hardware.
In Soviet Russia, The Hard Drives Crash You.
Thank you for checking this out. I try to be accurate in my statements (especially on/.) and I appreciate you taking the time to correct my mis-understanding. I will do some research and see why I believed that to start with. Again, Thanks:-)
I have had MSDN for many years, and recently TechNet Plus also. Burning an ISO and installing the software is a no brainer. Within several days though, Microsoft operating systems start to fall apart as the default options start banging into each other. So you loaded Vista and Office successfully. Big Deal. The question is whether you can reliably use them to get real work done on a schedule day after day. Try looking at the system logs for information about services that fail to launch because of cascading problems in the operating system and application installs. You say you loaded up Visual Studio on Vista with no problem. I doubt that.
Douglas Adams wrote about "bistro math" as a unique way of calculating each person's share of te bill.
I think you multiplied your portion by 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 then
used the square root of the result as your bill (plus a tip of course).
I seen to remember reading that Gnome has a lot of Mono used in it. Since I think that Mono is a giant patent troll trap by Microsoft, and I am avoiding.NET like the plague, I am tending towards KDE. That means if ubuntu is my preference, I willl use kbuntu instead. I have also read kbuntu is very popular. I think the portions of Gnome that use Mono should be locked by default and require a key such as 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 before they go live. Then people would know when they had crossed the line and started using Microsoft technology.
I have read dozens of articles about large databases being carried off by unknown people on hard drives and laptops, and each time people ask why so much information was in such a portable form.
I am asking again. Why aren't there strict guidelines/laws about how personal data is kept. I know that medical people have a HIPPA (spelling may be wrong) guideline that is so strong that people are signing all the time that the have received information about how much medical practitioners care about personal data security.
How about something HIPPA-like that covers personal/financial information.
The information should be protected with something like 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 (or better)
A while back I worked at a bank (actually a holding company that owned 23 banks). ATM transactions are heavily encrypted and to the best of my knowledge are fairly safe. What is less safe is having point of sale employees with momentary access to your card (depending on their memory). Anyway, I don't worry about the ATM link encryption. Others aspects bother me though. The entire process deserves review.
Well, if you patented software bugs, you might be able to sue the processor chip for making errors and omissions. Chip manufcturers would have to get lots of liability insurance to cover their asses when software malfunctioned. On the other hand, with the amount of bugs in Microsoft Windows, and any reasonable penalty per instance of the bug in the wild, Microsoft would rightly owe a lot of money.
Maybe the Free Software Foundation should hold the patent. That would create a revenue stream to support the continued development of GNU software.
Since when does the LOC make laws? I would have thought the FCC would have had their hand in this, but I would expect the LOC to be concerned about recording the context of what is happening in the congress and nothing more.
Since the 8086/8088, each successive processor has retained a high degree of compatibility, while enhancements continued to enable advancements in overall capability. The 80186, while not a geat leap, contained a few more instruction modes to make code more efficient. The 80286, while having a protected mode including the task state segment and ldt/gdt addressing more then a megabyte of ram, retained a real-mode capability. Starting with the 80386, the virtual mode allowed a combination of real-mode like operation enhanced with advanced memory mapping and i/o mapping that allowed virtualization of devices. 80486 did all of that and contained a math co-processor. At each stage, the previous capabilities were maintained and the size of the pre-fetch queue was increased thereby increasing the performance of the execution unit. After that, 586/686 class processors continued to arrive with further hardware enhancements such as multimedia extensions. In my opinion, they did an excellent job of retaining compatibility from one processor to the next, and although subsequent processors required specific setups at boot time provided by the bios, there has never been a break in the compatibility chain between 8088 and now. The processors are a thousand times faster, the memory is a thousand times larger, and significantly wider, but the original software still boots ad runs.
I am not quite sure what IBM cross-licensing has to do with that. Please explain as I must have forgotten the implications.
I remember back to the Microprocessor revolution, and there were a number of factors that were actually considered when chosing a platform for application development.
System power and capacity (speed and amount of memory available and required)
Connectivity (type and speed required)
User interface (type and resolution required)
Small applications could be embedded. Larger ones could be hosted on a microprocessor. Huge ones would end up on mainframes or super-minis.
After a certain level of complexity, applications broke the 640K limit and ended up in alternative operating systems such as Unix. Having to make platform
decisions such as BSD/SYSV and OpenLook/X were serious committments. The fragmentation of the Unix community made it difficult to specify a particular
vendor and platform because of unknow lock-in implications.
I do remember at that time we wished for a standard platform for general development with plenty of headroom and versatility. GNU compiler tools were not quite
there yet and vendor language tools were expensive and often a lock-in. Unix was ominous, and NetWare was unstable/touchy. The Mac and Windows 3.0 had memory
management difficulties.
When Windows 3.1 in enhanced mode arrived, memory management became easier. People writing non-trivial Apps used Windows if only for the memory model
and later to use the GUI. There was a time I used to own a variety of compilers for the Dos//Windows platform and would use whatever was best for any particular
application. With the advent of Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC), the vendor lock-in (Microsoft) began because the MSC usually came with their latest MFC version
and competitive compilers usually had down level versions of the MFC. This was the beginning of the end in my mind. Visual Basic only made things worse.
Hard core applications such as Autocad were ported to "workstation" class machines and vendors bit the bullet when it came to porting costs.
In my mind, the arrival of the code wizards that would generate 28000 lines of code in a few seconds only made things worse.
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The number of colors is calculated from the number of bits in the color lookup table for any color number. For example if the CLT had 24 bit color, 8R 8G 8B, that is 2^24 colors. If it has a sixteen bit such as a 6-5-5, the number of colors would be 2^16. That is what the color count is about, not how many colors of pixels there are. Anyone that has written a color display driver knows this...
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Copyright (C) 2007 Amendment TV. All Rights Reserved
The periodica reinvention of American Culture is a form of evolution. And I think that is a good thing. DRM is a cancer. What have you got against American Culture? No more food fr you.
Does that mean that an unbelievable amount of data will come into being within a fraction of the first second, a phase called "Expansion"?
Would that be a Bendix G15?
I am so grateful that this dialogue finally got around to a serious issue. What makes TCP go is the sliding window protocol, and now that memory is cheap, the window should be potentially very wide. At 2400 Baud, 8 buffers might have been an improvement. Our contemporary computers have unimaginable amounts of ram compared to the old days. We should be able to tune up the protocols on that basis and improve the throughput of the network. IMHO
The real question is whether the Internet users at large would help pay for robust infrastructure at w3 to support this.
I tried the Cingular EDGE service a few months ago, and it was awful. All web access was routed through a proxy server somewhere that degraded image quality to accelerate download speeds. It was minimully better than dialup and I cancelled the service two days after signing up. With 3G service it would have been better IMHO.
The iPhone has some cool features, but with crippled wireless hardware it is going to be an uphill battle trying to compete with any other smart phone that Cingular may sell that has 3G support and can leverage off AT&T's recent investments. This campaign looks like a trainwreck leaving the station.
When I bought my last notebook (The VAIO), Geeksquad quoted me a price for the 2GB memory upgrade, and half an hour later after the chips were in, the price was $50 more than expected. The geeks shrugged their shoulders and pointed at my guy and said, "He's new here". That will officially be my last trip to the geeksquad counter.
Maybe they didn't change their password technique at all, but just started shipping highly unreliable hardware. In Soviet Russia, The Hard Drives Crash You.
Freedom of thought. Cold Fusion. Free Energy. Transparency in Government. Tesla.
Inquiring minds want to know...
The subject is the question. see TA.
IMHO, euphemism is a euphemism for telling a lie.
Eyes closed, rocking back and forth. This doesn't surprise me much.
Thank you for checking this out. I try to be accurate in my statements (especially on /.) and I appreciate you taking the time to correct my mis-understanding. I will do some research and see why I believed that to start with. Again, Thanks :-)
I have had MSDN for many years, and recently TechNet Plus also. Burning an ISO and installing the software is a no brainer. Within several days though, Microsoft operating systems start to fall apart as the default options start banging into each other. So you loaded Vista and Office successfully. Big Deal. The question is whether you can reliably use them to get real work done on a schedule day after day. Try looking at the system logs for information about services that fail to launch because of cascading problems in the operating system and application installs. You say you loaded up Visual Studio on Vista with no problem. I doubt that.
I think you multiplied your portion by 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 then used the square root of the result as your bill (plus a tip of course).
I seen to remember reading that Gnome has a lot of Mono used in it. Since I think that Mono is a giant patent troll trap by Microsoft, and I am avoiding .NET like the plague, I am tending towards KDE. That means if ubuntu is my preference, I willl use kbuntu instead. I have also read kbuntu is very popular. I think the portions of Gnome that use Mono should be locked by default and require a key such as 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 before they go live. Then people would know when they had crossed the line and started using Microsoft technology.
I am asking again. Why aren't there strict guidelines/laws about how personal data is kept. I know that medical people have a HIPPA (spelling may be wrong) guideline that is so strong that people are signing all the time that the have received information about how much medical practitioners care about personal data security.
How about something HIPPA-like that covers personal/financial information.
The information should be protected with something like 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 (or better)
A while back I worked at a bank (actually a holding company that owned 23 banks). ATM transactions are heavily encrypted and to the best of my knowledge are fairly safe. What is less safe is having point of sale employees with momentary access to your card (depending on their memory). Anyway, I don't worry about the ATM link encryption. Others aspects bother me though. The entire process deserves review.
Maybe the Free Software Foundation should hold the patent. That would create a revenue stream to support the continued development of GNU software.
Since when does the LOC make laws? I would have thought the FCC would have had their hand in this, but I would expect the LOC to be concerned about recording the context of what is happening in the congress and nothing more.
I am not quite sure what IBM cross-licensing has to do with that. Please explain as I must have forgotten the implications.
System power and capacity (speed and amount of memory available and required)
Connectivity (type and speed required)
User interface (type and resolution required)
Small applications could be embedded. Larger ones could be hosted on a microprocessor. Huge ones would end up on mainframes or super-minis.
After a certain level of complexity, applications broke the 640K limit and ended up in alternative operating systems such as Unix. Having to make platform decisions such as BSD/SYSV and OpenLook/X were serious committments. The fragmentation of the Unix community made it difficult to specify a particular vendor and platform because of unknow lock-in implications.
I do remember at that time we wished for a standard platform for general development with plenty of headroom and versatility. GNU compiler tools were not quite there yet and vendor language tools were expensive and often a lock-in. Unix was ominous, and NetWare was unstable/touchy. The Mac and Windows 3.0 had memory management difficulties.
When Windows 3.1 in enhanced mode arrived, memory management became easier. People writing non-trivial Apps used Windows if only for the memory model and later to use the GUI. There was a time I used to own a variety of compilers for the Dos//Windows platform and would use whatever was best for any particular application. With the advent of Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC), the vendor lock-in (Microsoft) began because the MSC usually came with their latest MFC version and competitive compilers usually had down level versions of the MFC. This was the beginning of the end in my mind. Visual Basic only made things worse.
Hard core applications such as Autocad were ported to "workstation" class machines and vendors bit the bullet when it came to porting costs.
In my mind, the arrival of the code wizards that would generate 28000 lines of code in a few seconds only made things worse.