Cool, I hadn't thought of it from that angle.

I think he means that 8 vertical pixels were stored in a single byte.
Shifting left and right become byte operations, not bit operations.
And if vertical shifts are also restricted to be in lots of 8 (ie when the invaders jump down an entire row) then you can avoid bit shifts altogether.

Is that an egg based batter or a milk based batter?
Does it increase the efficiency of the RAM or is it just a way to cook it?
Does it make the RAM easier/tastier to eat?
Does it cause any problems the next day when the RAM gets to the other end?

The Odyssey was an analogue system (no CPU) and the graphics were just a few dots and lines.
See Ralph Baer's book about how he designed it at https://archive.org/details/Vi...
The Odyssey was very innovative in its day but the SNES was also a considerable advance over that.

It's almost as if the NYT was paying someone to direct traffic to their site ...

The work that she contributed for free, that brought viewers in and that Instagram was able to charge to advertise on?
Instagram *made* money from her for a decade.

Yep, I trust Edge exactly the same amount I trust Micro$oft.

As for the main competition, I've found that tools (spanners, etc) that have more chrome tend to be lower quality.

40C is an Australian summer day.
33C is an Australian spring day.

This is a forum for international discussions.
Unless you want to claim that non-US people are somehow second class.

"It is the use of non-ASCII characters not in app names but in registry keys that is causing the issue."

The non-ASCII characters are triggering the issue.
The cause is Windows not handling them correctly.

Saying that the non-ASCII characters are causing the issue is putting the blame on the app (which is actually obeying the rules) and taking the blame off Windows (which is not obeying the rules).

I used to work in this field in the late 1990's.

Banks can configure the credit card terminal:
- to reject transactions over amount A (avoids thieves sucking your account dry in one go)
- to require a PIN over amount B (allows quick transactions for small amounts)
- to require a connection to the bank host over amount C (allows small transactions when the phones are out)
Amounts A, B, C are independent but usually 0=C=B=A

Different banks set different amounts for each.
They can even set them different according to ranges of the card number.
Eg. a CC from a particular bank (matching the first few digits) can be set to lower amounts while a CC from another bank can be higher.
It's just table lookups.

Read "Strata" by Terry Pratchett.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Are you sure the light goes off when you close the door?

Their name is National Geographic.
And that nation is the USA.
Which has no physical connection to any ocean anywhere near Antarctica.
Why would they have any say over this?
Can Australia or Malaysia or Botswana have an equivalent say over what the Great Lakes in the US are called.

On the other hand, we have this map which includes the Southern Ocean: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Which was taken from the IHO 23-3rd: Limits of Oceans and Seas, Special Publication 23, 3rd Edition 1953, published by the International Hydrographic Organization.

Sheesh, why link to a guy talking ABOUT the tear down when we could have linked to the actual teardown.
https://www.ifixit.com/News/50...

I do like the x-ray of the US quarter coin - even though the size of a US quarter means nothing to me as a non-American.

If I was part of a corporation that owned *both* the server and the hundreds/thousands of PC's then yes, I would love the thin client solution.

As an individual that owns the client end but *not* the sever end, then I would be uncomfortable putting all my trust in any company that can easily mislead me and profit from doing so.