Posts by Charles 9 16605 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Jun 2009
"So 8 bit controller chips including the good old Z80 which is still available are 0 core?"
From my earlier post: "Earlier chips didn't expect an internal FPU so can be excused, but not anything since."
The Z80 is pre-80486 so falls under that exemption. Times change as do expectations. Thus my benchmark, the 80486 with its internal FPU.
Put it this way: I didn't consider the Cell CPU to be 8-core because it shared too much.
Which should include the floating point units which have been standard issue since the 80486. Earlier chips didn't expect an internal FPU so can be excused, but not anything since. It'd be like saying you have a bathroom for men and women when you only have one unisex toilet. So what happens when a couple come in with simultaneous toilet emergencies?
The relevant part is quoted: "They are DATA, not code."
That's the basic premise of the Harvard architecture: that data is data and that code is code and shouldn't mix. However, compilers (especially runtime compilers like JITs) break this rule because code IS their data. That's why you can't run a JIT in a strict Harvard architecture. That said, most computer architectures are in between this and the von Neumann architecture where code and data are one and the same. You can treat code as data or segregate it as needed, so we're both right in the sense that things can change from role to role.
It's not like we can do anything to stop them. Any fine we try to impose will either be eaten as The Cost of Doing Business or challenges as Abuse of Power. Try to get them criminally and they'll jump jurisdictions, and because of the zero-sum game there WILL be a country willing to welcome a jumper and protect them from foreign sovereignty.
But that step can be obfuscated, and code CAN legitimately read the canvas (for interactive elements like a whiteboard). I think the next step souls be for ad network to take anti-stego steps like I've noted before, such as mangling all uploaded images prior to storage.
"The organisations who have avoided paying up to fix their cranky old crapware would squeal mightily (whilst many of us laughed), but they'd finally have to grasp the nettle, and put in a more sensible solution. And if their hand was forced, the companies concererned would find a fix real soon, IMHO."
Assuming they still exist...or don't just vanish like a ghost the moment anyone tries to force their hand.
Nope. I wasn't kidding about the political suicide bit. ANYONE who discusses reducing the population or even instituting curbs to birth rates gets immediately denounced as a Neo-Nazi, a Commie, or both. That's why the O-word is treated as 4 letters rather than 14 and why you NEVER hear it in politics.
"“Prevaricating" means "lying""
Not necessarily. Don't believe me? Check the sources:
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/prevaricate : "Speak or act in an evasive way."
https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/prevaricate : "be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information"
To flat out lie means to intentionally speak something false. Prevarication still allows for speaking a truth: just one of no value. It also allows for saying things that are subject to a truth/lie evaluation because they are essentially meaningless. Think half-truths.
And let's not get started on serious gaming. Linux and mainstream PC gaming just don't mesh right now, not even with Valve trying to get developers to jump. Blizzard still uses Windows as the goto platform for its headliners WoW and Overwatch, and Epic's Fortnite is officially supported for Windows only if you stick to PCs.
Nope. Even in American English.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prevaricate
Though in the US, we tend to use idioms such as "dodging the question". The "lying" aspect perhaps comes because Americans get testy about prevarication and keep on until they get a straight answer, forcing the questioned to lie to create an out.
The problem with your last line is that, sometimes, camouflage is your only hope because your adversary has access to superior technology (like an attack craft) that can tear apart nigh anything on a mobile base. All he needs to know is where to attack and you're dead. So, as they say, you can't hit what you don't know about. So I'll counter your line with my own.
"Sometimes, the only defense you really have is to make the enemy think you're not there at all."
But harm is pretty universal in US and state cases. It's based on Constitutional standards for "standing": you can't sue unless you have standing, and one of the criteria is that the accused must have harmed you in some way.
Sure it can. Majority rule. Especially when you throw in the people who watch 22-24 men run around with, kick, and throw an oblate spheroid around a rectangular field for anywhere from 60-80 minutes at a stretch, not to mention various popular local variations like the one on an elliptical field that seems to draw the most people at a time to a single sports venue every year.
What I do is use ncid. In addition to the FCC bad list, I have two additional block scripts. One instantly blocks V telemarketers. The other silently hangs up on any new caller. Serious callers will think there was a glitch and call again, this time getting through. Meanwhile, I get a lead time to research the number with say 800notes to see if it should be permanently blacklisted.
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