I think you read the game size in bits, not bytes.

20 Gbit: It's under six hours: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=20+billion+bits+%2F+1+million+bits%2Fsecond+in+hours (But that assumes you don't get slower speeds at peak times.)

20 GB: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=20+billion+bytes+%2F+1+million+bits%2Fsecond+in+hours (45 hours)

A Tottenham Hotspur fan will use the term "Yid" as a "reclaim the word in an empowering manner" way. I.e., they can use it, nobody else can. The FA should recognise this in their guidelines. Yes, a lot of Tottenham fans aren't Jewish, and I'm sure some of them don't even know what the term really means. But they are not using it in a negative, insulting or defamatory manner. I appreciate that in a different country, the term could be seen as a far worse word.

The fans arrested in this story were opposition fans, mentioning Auschwitz, etc. Straightforward racial hatred.

Yeah, and Amstrad released the 8-bit PcW16 in 1995 for whatever crack-addled reason they thought it was a good idea. 16MHz Z80 sure, but still...

Yeah, the C128's video chip (MOS 8563) had it's own 16KB (up to 64KB) of memory so it could operate completely on its own without affecting the rest of the system, to generate its own display. Very clever. The downside being, of course, that the video memory wasn't directly accessible by the CPU, all operations had to go through the video chip.

This wasn't particular unique of course, MSX video chips operated the same way, and the 8563 did have a primitive memcpy hardware to aid in memory manipulation.

Odd that there were so many Z80 systems that shared memory with bitmapped graphics that never had graphics corruption issues that you mention. I guess you are talking about the late 70s, because you're talking about the 8080, static memory, etc. The C128 came out in 1985. The C128's MOS8563 was a character based CGA-alike chip that you are dissing in your post (and like the MC6845 that was used for character based CGA displays, it could be hacked into being a bitmap displaying creature).

The speed of a 4MHz Z80 matched well in reality with a 1MHz 6502. Yes, the 6502 had better IPC, but the Z80 ran far faster to compensate. There were 2MHz 6502s too, as used in the C128 and BBC Micro, these should have allowed these computers to be noticably faster than the Z80 systems, but they weren't.

Actually, it's really odd reading your post, you are mixing up mid/late 70s computers with early/mid 80s computers, at a time when every year brought major progress. I don't see the point of the comparison.

Well it took until the A600 for C= to make a sub $200 Amiga to replace the C64. The $1700 A1000 was not a serious option at the time for people that needed a computer with a software ecosystem.

In 1985, a $300 C128, or a $500 C128D, made a lot of sense for a home computer - a C64 for the kids, a CP/M machine for the parents.

But like all "multipurpose" home computers, it ended up being a C64 for the kids only!

Well, it didn't take off in the way the C64 did, but it still sold 5 million devices, generating $1.5b in revenue for Commodore to waste on bad decisions. Bill Herd says they expected to sell 2 million devices, so in these terms it was a success.

And consider that this was available for $300 too. Yes, a big bundle of chips on a rammed motherboard, very much unlike the far cleaner designs coming out at the time.

It is really odd that not much C128-only gaming software was made - I can only assume that for games this was because the C64 version already worked on the hardware, so why spend extra effort making a C128 variant that actually made use of the faster CPU, extra RAM, and so on? And it was probably hard to compete with the CP/M market for dedicate C128 80-column business software.

Reading the specs of the 80-column chip, the MOS8563, it appears to be very much like the MC6845, but with attributes and a simple blitter.

Yeah, I don't think CP/M or business software really appealed to most young people at the time!

I wonder what the sales of the C128 were like for people who wanted both a C64 for the children during the day, and a CP/M machine for business purposes in the evening (or whatever time periods you want to use)?

A quick question: Is this supported in hardware (to prolong battery life) in mobile devices that can play audio?

I expect more generalised hardware (i.e., programmable DSPs) can be made to support it on the DSP that is present in the audio/video decode functional blocks of the SoC.

Yeah. Got to hope that they didn't use it as a chair, or look at it for a long time after removing it from the box.

I don't know what the maximum exposure to Cobalt-60 is before you wished you were dead though. Sounds like it could be minutes?

I don't think you have a clear understanding of mental illness.

It's like physical illness, but applied to the brain and mental functions. People get better. People get worse. Some people are very very ill, many are just a bit ill. 1 in 4 people will have a mental health issue at some point in their life.

By "is delusional" you mean "was delusional". This is now managed with drugs, just like someone who lost their leg has their "balance issues" managed with a false limb. I don't think anyone would condone blocking entry to a country because that person had lost a leg in the past.

The decision was appalling, and the fact that it is clear that Canada is giving up private medical records to US authorities is disgusting.

Luckily there are enough RPis out there to warrant maintaining RPi specific Linux distributions.

I'm rather hoping that Broadcom will be releasing a new SoC that will be used in a new RPi that will take the best aspects of the current SoC such as the GPU, and weld on a better CPU - even if it's only a dual-core A7 like the A20 in order to meet the price point.

Cops don't care.

To stop the residue of drugs, the drugs should be double bagged, or stored in a container within the secret compartment. That container should be a small cash safe box. When not transporting drugs, put a different small cash safe box in the secret compartment. Bam, valid reason for compartment - transport of cash. Oh, except I guess the cops would just say you're transporting drugs money...

I.e., it's a thought crime, when used on its own as the only evidence.

The "reek of marijuana" is another piece of evidence - of course this is the police's word against the owner, although I'm sure they'll get the car analysed for traces of the drug itself which should be present.

More likely it should be used as supporting evidence in a case against drug dealers, showing intent to deal even if not caught dealing but with a lot of drugs on them.

What's the point of a hidden compartment if you leave the wires around to be seen? Or did the cops tear the car apart and get lucky? Sounds like a poor installation job to me though - probably better to leech some power from the taillight power cable and have an Arduino+WiFi module driving the locking mechanism, and unlock it remotely via a phone app.

Faster CPU, and two of them. Note that the A7 is not amazingly faster (maybe 2x) than the ARM11 in the RPi, but it's more up to date (ARMv7 instead of the very old ARMv6) - and two of them does help a lot.

Slower GPU. The RPi uses a very advanced SoC in terms of GPU. The ARM11 is actually just a microcontroller for the GPU. The SoC was aimed at video applications, and is pretty darned amazing, for the price.

1GB RAM instead of 512MB.

4GB of flash storage, instead of none. Not to be sniffed at, but most people would just stick a fast SD card in anyway.

SATA support, versus no SATA support.

Open form factor, versus custom. Two boards (SoC board, EOMA68 I/O board) versus one board. Higher cost.

No software ecosystem versus an ecosystem of 2 million sold devices.