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From Wikipedia:
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• Multicolor mode: 64×48 pixels (each pixel may be any color, all 32 sprites are available)

• Bitmap mode: 256×192 pixels (no more than two colors in an eight pixel row, full 15 color palette + transparent, all 32 sprites available)

• Graphics mode: 32×24 characters (256 8×8 user-definable characters, full 15 color palette + transparent and 32 sprites.
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The last was the mode accessible from Basic and Extended Basic. I remember longing for the bitmap and multicolor mode.

For the 256x182 mode, the pixel bitmap is 5824 bytes bitmap, plus 1 byte for color info of each 8-pixel (4-bit foreground/4-bit background) which is also 5824 bytes. Total 11648 bytes. Just 2 bits per pixel BTW.

The TI994a had 32 sprites (all single colored 8x8 pixels). You could also magnify them.

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The TMS9918 was the basis for the VDP chips in the Sega Master System, Game Gear and Mega Drive. They used additional display modes and registers, and added hardware scrolling capabilities and other advanced features. (Note that the Mega Drive VDP cannot access any of the TMS9918 display modes discussed below.)
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Howard Schultz to Starbucks Partners: Living Our Values in Uncertain Times
I haven't used it, but firebase is popular.
How do you get a "burner phone"? everywhere requires an ID and SSN to buy one.
How about, JIRA is an issue tracker last I checked, SAP has provided a wide range of corp/biz solutions from ERP to what-not since the early 70s...
Silicon Valley is a place where founders need to be reassured that building a company that's profitable instead of being valued at around $100m before liquidation preferences etc are considered is nothing to be ashamed of :)
Facebook bought it. Parse was highly coupled to AWS at the time. They spent some 3 years trying to get it to run on Facebook's cloud, and apparently failed to do so. Facebook decided to cut their losses, and shut it down.
There's a good point there, but I can also see the merit of letting the commander in chief get the benefit of the doubt, especially since we're not talking about U.S. citizens as far as I can tell.
How is Annapurna and A24 disrupting Hollywood?
i like the power of the new API but i'm not sure i'm entirely sold on the declaration syntax. adjacent <Route/> tags which specify things that may appear in the same place depending on the route seems a bit strange conceptually to me. i'll have to play around with it on a real-world project to see how it feels in practice.

i didn't see it mentioned in the docs, but does the new version fix the awkward handling of scrolling and history?
I think it means the max amount of information in the observable universe is bounded by the amount of information that could fit on the 2D surface of a spherical event horizon of a black hole of the same size.
Thank you for using StartPage.com for search privacy! I will pass along your suggestion to our tech team. :-)
Pbly talent grab and also it gave them a view of up and coming apps they could target for acquisition: http://www.businessinsider.com/why-facebook-acquired-parse-f...
> "Majority of techies there are foreign born"

Do you work in human relations at Google? Otherwise how would you know this. It hires many, many engineers.

The issue is the abuse of the H1-B Visa system to hire employees at lower wage rates than Americans. I have absolutely no problem with an H1-B Visa issued for its original intent which is in the case that there is no American to fill the job. Usually, there are Americans to fill the job, but the firm frequently doesn't want to offer the wages necessary to employ them.
> “We’re different,” one producer recently told me. “No one can do what we do.”

Any industry whose leaders make a claim similar to this is probably one you can safely bet on a severe disruption to come, if one is not already in progress.
Except whenever you change employers your green-card application resets. For people born in India, green cards applications are currently being processed from July 2005. That means someone from India who is trying to become a permanent resident is stuck at the same company for over a decade.
Producing copies of an already existing digital good is, for all intents and purposes, free. Creating the original most definitely is not, and that's the issue here
I follow Julia on Twitter.

She always has great drawings/hilarious stuff that she posts. It's really inspiring.
Because of the documentation of its provenance, the difficulty in reproducing it, and because people will pay for it.
We had similar issues with my wife's charge. To Fitbit's credit, they were happy to send out multiple replacements, but my wife got tired of it and stopped using it after the 3rd replacement starting showing the same issue. By contrast, I have an old Fitbit One which still works well after all these years, but it's just a simple pod as opposed to a wrist band.
A lot of them would look exactly the same other than newer cars.
> Is the borrow syntax (&x) a reference while vanilla (x) is by value? Or are both passed by reference but with different ownership affects?

This is briefly addressed in the FAQs:

"What is the difference between passing by value, consuming, moving, and transferring ownership?

These are different terms for the same thing. In all cases, it means the value has been moved to another owner, and moved out of the possession of the original owner, who can no longer use it. If a type implements the Copy trait, the original owner’s value won’t be invalidated, and can still be used."

https://www.rust-lang.org/en-US/faq.html#what-is-the-differe...

There are more details in the chapter on the stack and the heap from the book (https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/the-stack-and-the-heap.html)...

"The stack is very fast, and is where memory is allocated in Rust by default."

"What do other languages do?

Most languages with a garbage collector heap-allocate by default. This means that every value is boxed. There are a number of reasons why this is done, but they’re out of scope for this tutorial. There are some possible optimizations that don’t make it true 100% of the time, too. Rather than relying on the stack and Drop to clean up memory, the garbage collector deals with the heap instead."

So unless your data structure is boxed, it's allocated on the stack and passed by value and different ownership effects apply as well.

> I got hung up the other day on passing a String to a function that accepted &str which someone explained to me Strings dereference to &str but I think I just ended up more confused.

String literals de-sugar to &str. E.g.,

fn borrow_str(s: &str) {}

borrow_str("foo"); // This works
borrow_str(String::new()) // this doesn't work

fn take_str(s: String) {}

take_str("foo") // Doesn't work
take_str(String::new()) // works
take_str("foo".to_owned()) // works
I guess this incident that happened yesterday doesn't inspire confidence:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/29/world/americas/quebec-cit...
If you take the market view (value being what people are willing to pay for), then the market clearly tells you that people value digitally delivered experiences at $not-much, rapidly falling to NIL. After all, bits are near-free to copy from the market's POV too - for everyone, it's trivial to either copy a piece of digital content themselves, or ask someone who'll copy it for them for free.

Copyrights and branding piracy as theft are ways of trying to artificially control the free market here. But they're so obviously "unnatural" in the digital space, that it makes sense to think about ways of making it so that the original creator gets paid, while copying remains free.
Hi - I've written a couple business books, one somewhat technical, the second not very technical. I am amazed at the value of the reputational benefits I've gotten compared to the amount of work it took. In general don't bother with a publisher. And also don't expect to make much money. Happy to chat offline if you'd like, just ping me.
They are very small, but not microscopic. They are done in yellow ink, which is why they are very hard to see. If they were printed in black ink, I think you'd be able to spot them immediately, despite their small size.
I've used Linux since day one, and I couldn't agree more.

In my case, as a musician/creative (and thus also a MacOS user) I absolutely recommend the UbuntuStudio variant of the Ubuntu family, because it comes with tons of great applications for audio/media/video production. Anyone who thinks that this is a Developers-/Hackers-only option should definitely take a peek at just the depth and breadth of the creative tools that are packed into UbuntuStudio setup.
Forget the action movies and funny comedies, where are the sci-fi movies??? And I don't mean some stupid movie about a guy living in what appears to be the modern world sans display screens and talking to his earphone, I mean movies with spaceships (and especially spaceships with elaborate corridors). The 70s and 80s were chock full of these movies. And no shaky-cam back then either. So far, all we've had is Star Wars--blah (yet again, Hollywood milking an old franshise), and Prometheus in 2012 (again, milking an old franchise).

Supposedly we're going to get a few spaceship sci-fi movies this year, including "Passengers" which looks promising. But we've gone quite a long time now without much in the way of sci-fi.
> I don't know were people have the time to watch that many series - I would trade TV series for great movies all day.

This is where streaming without commercials wins big. In the space of a typical two hour movie you can watch:

* 2 episodes of an HBO/Netflix type show where "hour long episodes" are actually an hour

* 3 episodes of a TV show where "hour long episodes" are 40 minutes

* 6 episodes of a sitcom type TV show where episodes are 20 minutes

With series, it's much easier to try it out and decide if you like it. Then, when you find something you do like, there's more content for the viewer to enjoy plus the possibility for storytelling and character depth that movies simply can't match in 2-3 hours.
Exactly this mass of comic super hero movies is so boring. And reboot after reboot with broken confusing story-line, with the reboot worse than the original. No wonder when idiots like the woman who was in charge at Sony Movie Pictures run such companies. The Steve Jobs move bombed big time. Instead of another superb movie in the style of Social Network we got the most boring movie ever.

Please focus on movies instead of hundreds of TV series - no one has time to watch that many series anyway - or do you want to create many niches with little viewers that ay little (Netflix, etc). How about full productions (not outsourced to Canada or Australia) without overusing CGI and spend some money on good scripts. Oh, and we don't need drama and slow spacing all the time. We need more humour and action, and often less story is better. Look at Kevin alone at home 1+2, Indiana Jones 1+3, Die Hard 1+2, Airforce One, the first two Tom Clancy movies, etc. fast pacing with slow elements, a short but good story, no fuss, very good music.
I was with you almost until the "willful ignorance". I also guess yummyfajitas was with you until the second paragraph as well.

My frustration is that your definition doesn't seem to be the one that one is jugded against but rather one that defines us all as racists because of the society we live in, because of our distant relatives etc.

Because of this there seems to be no way to defend against this. And since I am a "racist" it is only fair to dismiss all my opinions, right?

Again: I'm arguing in good faith. I don't like Trump but I am afraid the rethoric we see from Democrats and others are driving voters straight into his arms. I'm also fairly certain that it hurts this community when people go around accusing other long term contributors of willfull ignorance.
One way to think about is what goes on in a video game - you see characters on screen, but in the computer you actually have some data-structures describing them.

So a Player data-structure maps to a Player on screen, in the same way that some configuration of qubits on the surface of the universe corresponds to some thing from the "bulk" that we see.
What do you dislike about redis?
That's the first time I've heard of such a place, but it sounds wonderful. I imagine you'd need to be pretty handy with your own repairs.

Have they been around for a long time (i.e. are they profitable enough to stay open longterm)?
Thank you, mcescalante. We did our best to make the transition as smooth as possible.
Great names are built not found. Don't worry too much about getting the right name.

Don't be afraid to call your company one thing but have a slightly different URL.

A lot of people make the mistake of thinking that domain names needs to be easy to type but the reality is that most of us click on links to get to a company url we don't actually type it in (and even if you do Google is perfectly fine helping you find the right url)
There are volumes upon volumes of the ontology of art, I just wanted to point out that's where we are now, and that such questions have been asked and answered for literally thousands of years.
Supply and demand. A thing is worth what another is willing to pay for it.

Those $5 streaming "rentals" are for those actually willing to pay $5 to watch that movie right now. It's worth it to them. Eventually the $5 rental crowd is satiated, and the "not more than $4" crowd gets a chance as the price is lowered to match what others are willing to pay for it. Eventually that price tapers off to "$8/month buffet" and ends up on my Netflix queue.

They DO lower the cost - as those willing to pay higher prices do so, are satiated, and the audience temporal/economic demographics shift. It's not just about price per rental, it's price plus time per rental. Some movies I'll pay $15 to watch on day of release; some I'll happily "spend" time waiting for so I only spend $1 to watch it.

And yes, I'd happily get "that, here, now" for $5 rather than pile 4 people into the car, drive to Blockbuster, ask if they have it, find out the 2 copies are out, and wander the aisles for an hour reviewing what they do have and picking something ("Masters of the Universe"!) just to not completely waste the whole exercise (and decide that just leaving would have been better than watching "Masters of the Universe" only because it was the only thing vaguely appealing at the moment). Even with Redbox I at least have the option of looking for something new in particular and reserving it, from whichever of several nearby locations, for $2 from the convenience of my phone. Come John Wick 2 I'll have already pre-ordered it and be watching it, without the crowd, the moment it's available (and happy to pay the $19 to do so, having seen John Wick twice thanks to the $1 streaming specials).
Could someone comment about how this compares with other projects like:
https://github.com/react-community/react-navigation
and https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/master/docs/Us... ?

Awesome docs, BTW!
My point is that we should be cautious about assuming that his motives were uncomplicated.

For what it's worth, the FBI also found no evidence linking him to ISIL.

We can't possibly know what he felt in his heart, but making policy decisions based on the assumption that we can is reckless and only serves to further smooth over any of hint of subtlety left in American public discourse.
I don' think so. Most COBOL jobs I've seen want like 10-15 years experience which is effectively impossible to obtain in 2017.
Join a consultancy firm that specializes in that area, many will hire people with zero experience in the area and train them up. It's also the best place to learn as you'll be exposed to many different deployments.
Quite often you find entrepreneurs getting sucked into the mindset of building for investors and not necessarily building for customers. Entrepreneurs and their teams are too focused on valuation and not enough on business fundamentals.
That's something people keep forgetting that should be in any "Required Features for Good, Clustering Software" document. That they could move the software from VAX to Alpha to Itanium within same cluster was pretty amazing. Also a requirement for high-availability if a processor goes EOL. The other strategy is to bet on the market leader. Something they missed. ;)
Have you ever seen a hologram?

Shine lasers on a 2-D surface, and interference patterns create a 3-D image in mid-air. You see a 3-D object, but all information is actually stored in 2-D.

This is the same idea.
Most convenience stores, drugstores or bodegas.
When a marriage ends in divorce, it is fair to call the marriage a failure even if you get a profitable settlement from the divorce and even if you both go on to better marriages. Same reason.
> How will Facebook's new features (basically a clone of Snapchat) affect this?

Just based on usage within my circle, I don't see FB's clone attempts affecting Snapchat at all. FB is actually starting to piss me off with all of the spammy push notifications they keep sending out. If anything they're going to lose market share from people like me uninstalling their apps.

"(name) just posted for the first time in awhile"
"(name) just started a live stream".
I know plenty of smart people who did badly at school but excelled at working with machines including CNC. Some people just learn differently and don't fit into the current school system.
In Canada, you get an Open Work Permit as soon as you finish your degree. The length of the work permit depends on the type and length of the program. Once you get a proper job (full-time, related to your degree), you file for Permanent Residency, which if all checks out, takes around 6-8 months to process.

Source: did my undergrad in US, spent 5 miserable years on H1B tied to a single employer who kept delaying my PR application, because of which I couldn't travel freely internationally. Moved to Canada, finished my Masters, got my PR in 6 months. Now I can travel whereever I want. Thanks, Trudeau!
The Ransomware Chronicles: A DevOps Survival Guide
Do you need anything more than government should be enacting the will of its citizens?

Seems to me that's the most principled stance one can take.
Indeed, but there is research underway to find evidence:

<< Black holes are extremely dense and compact objects from which light cannot escape. There is an overall consensus that black holes exist and many astronomical objects are identified with black holes. White holes were understood as the exact time reversal of black holes, therefore they should continuously throw away material. It is accepted, however, that a persistent ejection of mass leads to gravitational pressure, the formation of a black hole and thus to the "death of while holes". So far, no astronomical source has been successfully tagged a white hole. The only known white hole is the Big Bang which was instantaneous rather than continuous or long-lasting. We thus suggest that the emergence of a white hole, which we name a 'Small Bang', is spontaneous - all the matter is ejected at a single pulse. Unlike black holes, white holes cannot be continuously observed rather their effect can only be detected around the event itself. Gamma ray bursts are the most energetic explosions in the universe. Long gamma-ray bursts were connected with supernova eruptions. There is a new group of gamma-ray bursts, which are relatively close to Earth, but surprisingly lack any supernova emission. We propose identifying these bursts with white holes. White holes seem like the best explanation of gamma-ray bursts that appear in voids. We also predict the detection of rare gigantic gamma-ray bursts with energies much higher than typically observed. >>

https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.2776
I'm not suggesting that the college textbook market has been designed by moustache-twirling evildoers, just that we should look at, as you say, the observable dynamics in the system. Regardless of market dynamics I think it's immoral to restrict academic knowledge to those who can afford it, when it can be distributed at 0 marginal cost.
Choosing to not provide services to racist organizations is not censorship.

Edit: Got the following email response (from an anonymous email no less):

"You are mistaken, Breitbart is not a hate site. It has offices in Jerusalem... please double-check.

(No need to reply, just correcting fake news.)"

Good one!
Others have covered that the usual path is to first have a job that sends you to SAP training. That could be an entry level job at a consultancy, or a job at a Fortune 500 that uses SAP...where the initial job isn't specifically SAP, but you find a way to get onto the project.

It would be difficult to do that any other way, as the setup costs to have your own SAP environment to learn on are prohibitively high.

That said, there are other niches where the environment and tools are available to you at a reasonable cost. You can, for example, sign up for a Salesforce.com developer account. Perhaps not SAP niche level salaries to be had, but Salesforce experience is in demand.

Just one example though...generally, search for niches with a reasonable way to get access to the platform if you want to gain some experience on your own. Other ideas might be single-sign-on/kerberos/saml/oauth, devops (puppet, chef, docker, etc) or specific e-commerce shopping cart software (magento, for example). Keep in mind though, light experience will likely only help landing an entry level spot.
I'd pose the same question to google regarding GCP.
This is like the wang carpets from Greg Egan's Diaspora novel.
They also sell geo/chrono filters[1].

[1] https://www.snapchat.com/on-demand
Prediction Zone: Using R with Shiny
> Based on your reply, you had a bad consultant and you used the wrong tool to load the data

My experience is that the tools and the "experts" leave a lot to be desired.

I wanted to move schema and data from the customer's server to my server so I could troubleshoot and issue the users were having.

The customer had 3 full time Oracle DBAs and I contracted a few high priced consultants to help with this job.

It took 6 days to move it.

Oracle isn't hated because people don't understand how databases work, it is hated because it is difficult to work with. Things may be different now (we were using 10g) but it feels like the most basic tasks take days of work.
Who else can afford to? XD
Here's a guide on the main techniques it used for high-availability:

http://h41379.www4.hpe.com/openvms/whitepapers/high_avail.ht...
Been using Fitbit devices since 2010, and using a Charge HR since it came out. Never had a problem like OP's.
I looked at your site. If you had video screencast that I could follow along. I would have paid for it.
You shouldn't be liberal at all if security is a concern. You should be strict, use a well defined format and refuse anything that doesn't comply.

It isn't difficult to be strict so being liberal is just asking for trouble uselessly.
Current valuations:

- Facebook: $350B

- Twitter: $15.7B

- Snapchat (projected): $20-25B

- IAC (owns Tinder): $5.45B

Interesting (and probably appropriate) that the market is pricing Snapchat closer to Twitter.
Serverless now integrates with IBM OpenWhisk
Realistically, digital goods should be "free."

If you want digital goods at all you'll learn to pay real money for them. My house & food require real money to buy, and I can either think those digital goods into existence for you to pay real money for, or I can grow that food and build that house while you don't get those digital goods at all.
Maps and sets can have quadratic-time performance
Is there an option to get results online?

That's been available here/US and it has come in handy.
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