Blech!... Most certainly NOT!!

This new look is absolutely horrible even on my 4:3 1280x1024 screens also, BTW....

Ick. Blech!

If that's the case (NEVER altering the light sequence), the programming on the PLC has probably simply been changed since the buttons were originally installed. At least at some times of the day most lights in most places do change behavior if the pedestrian button is pushed. It may alter timing of the lights, for example, but perhaps only if it doesn't sense traffic, etc... Those systems are actually usually a lot more complex than you probably realize... They usually have vehicle sensor inputs, pedestrian button inputs, know the time of day, etc. etc. and often alter behavior depending on all of those inputs based on the parameters programmed into them....

Apparently very few people here were actually around in the early days of the PC, never played with the ISA bus, etc. You're correct, Ctrl-Alt-Del does NOT generate an NMI... An NMI on early PCs just crashed the computer. It was usually only triggered on a parity error on most machines. It seems to me it was hooked to the back right pin on the ISA bus, so you could crash your machine by triggering it. If you did that accidentally while playing with the bus (we used to hook all sorts of things directly up to the bus using jumper wires shoved outside the fingers in the slots) or moving your home-made card around or something, you'd just ground the second from the back on the left side of the slot and that triggers a reset... IIRC, anyway... It's been some time since I built an ISA card... :-) Still have my original "soundcard" that was a basically just a DAC hooked to the bus at 0x300h that I built many many years ago around here somewhere... and my 16-port GPI/O card I built to hook up to a lightshow controller built from a whole swack of 7400 series logic... Oh, those were the days! :-)

What's with all the fluff articles lately? I read a detailed article many years ago about Woz' phone phreaking adventures an his love of jokes and pranks is well known. I'd love to read a modern article on some of the (presumably hilarious) details, but this is certainly not it. :-)

ARGH!

Ok, I know sometimes a type-o or two can get through even the most closely proofread post, English isn't necessarily a given poster's primary language and I was raised in a family with multiple English teachers. However, lately this one drives me absolutely bonkers on a daily basis, seemingly on every thread, here on /.

http://grammarist.com/usage/than-then/

Thank you!

I stand corrected.

Mod that link up.

They basically just banned adding "on a computer", etc. to a patent automatically becoming a new patentable "invention".

A friend of mine uses "BACKOFF get your own wifi"

Only because people keep saying there are only two options until people believe it. As soon as people actually bother to vote for another option, there will actually BE another option!

If it is broadcast in your local area anyway, why should it be wrong to download a copy that someone else used their antenna and capture card to record instead of recording it yourself? If you have a cable/sat/etc subscription to a channel, why should it be wrong to download a copy of something you've already paid to be able to watch but someone else actually recorded? etc.

Yeah, for a TI-99/4a with it's 256 bytes of actual CPU 'scratchpad' RAM on the TMS9900's 16-bit system bus vs today's 16GBs is, what, about 67 million? What's wrong with these poll writers lately? :-) I guess if you counted the video memory also it would be closer to 1 million but I'm reading the poll as meaning system RAM for the main CPU, so that's 128 x 16 bits.

Depends on the drive. Most ignore the error correction bits however some better (and usually older) ones will actually read the error correction bits and correct (any correctable errors) on the fly and you'll always get either the exact same data or a read error.

No, there actually are error correction bits but most players/drives ignore them when playing/reading audio. Good drives like Plextors will do bit-perfect DAE. Even some of my older Sony, Yamaha and Pioneer SCSI drives do it by themselves. I still use my old drives for my DAE needs. Most cheap new drives don't bother but you can read multiple times and make it pretty close with software. Something like grip works well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Book_(audio_CD_standard)

Hmm, replying to my own post with a correction I noticed when I re-read after posting, before some uber-network-guru calls me an idiot... :-) The multiple responses on the same hop number aren't additional routers not incrementing the hopcount (would have three times each) they were the three indivitual ICMP echo requests being responded to by the different (parallel) routers that happened to be the one passing the packet and responding the request.

Your maximum speed has nothing to do with latency, which is what the ping time is measuring. Most protocols adjust for increased latency, so even on a satellite connection with a 1s ping time due to physical distance, you can still get many Mbps on a large transfer. Response time for anything interactive is a completely different story.