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 Discussion on question by Nike Dattan…

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Ross Ridge
Feb 16, 2021 23:25
Yes, I'm referring to the "Review of refusal to issue licence" section of the law you quoted. It's clear you would not be able to bring an action under that section if all nearby cities close their offices, since there would be no refusal by an issuer to review. If you wanted to go to court, it would have to be on some other grounds, perhaps with a charter challenge claiming that your "right to be married" has been denied and this right is somehow guaranteed by the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Ross Ridge
Feb 16, 2021 23:25
The law is clear, the issuer has to refuse to issue a licence for that section to apply, and the issuer in your home municipality hasn't done that. I'm not sure the the Province of Ontario has any legal obligation to issue marriage licences, but even if it were tp stop doing so across the province entirely, people would still be able to get married through the publication of banns at any place of worship. (This by the way, was how the first gay couples were married in Ontario despite the province refusing to issue licences to them.)
Ross Ridge
Feb 16, 2021 23:25
As practical matter, I don't think you have much legal recourse here. By the time a court would hear your case, brought under whatever grounds, it's likely that the City of Waterloo will start granting licences again. If you want to hurry up this process you can try contacting your council member and inform them of the difficulty this is causing you.
Ross Ridge
Feb 16, 2021 23:25
The "Review of refusal to issue licence" part of the law you quoted only applies when an issuer actually refuses to issue a licence after a request for one. You can ask a court to review the decision of the issuer in the other municipality that actually refused to issue a licence to you, but you can't ask for a review under that section because the licence office was closed, whether because it was the weekend or because of a pandemic.
 

 Discussion on question by Brian H: Ho…

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Ross Ridge
Mar 21, 2020 10:55
@StephenKitt Your justification for closing is the question is that it can't be answered except to say there are no public statements in the public record, which is an assumption that could be proved wrong.
Ross Ridge
Mar 21, 2020 10:55
@StephenKitt It's inappropriate to close a question based on what you assume the answer to be. Also all quotes on Wikipedia are hearsay, it's not supposed to be primary source of anything, so it would also be inappropriate to delete the quote from Wikipedia on that basis. Ironically, your argument about why this site is better than Wikipedia argues against closing this question.
Ross Ridge
Mar 21, 2020 10:55
I've known people who come from mainframe backgrounds disparage Unix's sole byte steam view of files because they were used to "richer" file interfaces like ISAM which made certain tasks easier, never mind how inefficient these interfaces could be.
 

 Discussion on question by algiogia: M…

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Ross Ridge
Mar 12, 2020 16:42
You were never able to sell it for what you paid for it. A used motorcycle sells for less than an otherwise identical new motorcycle.
 

 Discussion on answer by Greendrake: I…

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Ross Ridge
Sep 30, 2019 00:43
No, sorry, It doesn't work that way. UK case law made after 1789 is not binding on any US court. Other dates apply in other common law jurisdictions.
Ross Ridge
Sep 30, 2019 00:43
Do you have anything to support your claim that your answer is "valid for all common law jurisdictions"? The Wikipedia article you linked only provides support for your answer being valid in the UK,
 

 Discussion on answer by Stephen Kitt:…

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Ross Ridge
Sep 18, 2019 05:40
@Ady Real mode flat model isn't a thing. I don't know where you heard that term. Maybe someone used it when they meant unreal mode, like Stephan suggested. Maybe someone used it when they meant the tiny memory model, which your question seems to suggest is what you think it is. Regardless, it's not a generally used term so it's meaningless.
 

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Ross Ridge
Aug 9, 2019 14:49
@Voo Twisting the meaning of the question also isn't going to fruitful, but obviously at this point that's not what you're looking for.
Ross Ridge
Aug 9, 2019 14:49
@Voo The only one being dishonest is you.
Ross Ridge
Aug 9, 2019 14:49
@Voo If you wanted a fruitful discussion it would be more helpful if you had argued against things I or the article had actually said, rather than strawman.
Ross Ridge
Aug 9, 2019 14:49
@Voo The article doesn't argue that Bill Gates was wrong in saying that they had to come up with an alternative. The article argues that Bill Gates was wrong in saying we couldn't have had a single button without IBM agreeing to it. They were forced to implement the alternative, but nothing prevented them adding the single button to keyboards as well.
Ross Ridge
Aug 9, 2019 14:49
@Voo Why are you continuing with this strawman argument? No one said anything about stopping CTRL-ALT-DELETE.
Ross Ridge
Aug 9, 2019 14:49
@Voo Your comment, like your first reply doesn't follow from anything I said. I never said the key would be mandatory, nor did I say IBM didn't have the government market in 1987. I also said nothing about the home market, which is clearly irrelevant, as the article explains. You might try reading it, since it's essentially who you're really arguing against.
Ross Ridge
Aug 9, 2019 14:49
@Voo The article argues that by 1987 IBM had lost the dominance necessary, as evidenced by the failure of the PS/2 system architecture, Even if you believe IBM was in a position to add the key early in Windows NT development, it doesn't explain why Microsoft didn't do so at their first opportunity, ie. in 1994, when they added the Windows logo key, rather than let Bill Gates moan about it for the next couple of decades.
Ross Ridge
Aug 9, 2019 14:49
@Voo I don't get what you're trying to say. I never said the button would've replaced CTRL-ALT-DELETE. The article disputes Bill Gates claim that he ever wanted to add the button, as Microsoft, not IBM, was in position to do so if he had really wanted it. "We're republishing this piece from 2013, because we still think that Gates' telling of the story is a little misleading [...] if Microsoft really wanted a single button ctrl-alt-del for Windows NT, it was Microsoft, not IBM, with the market dominance to achieve that."
Ross Ridge
Aug 9, 2019 14:49
Like the author of the Ars Technica article you linked, I don't buy Bill Gates explanation. As the article says "So our question to Bill Gates would be, if you really wanted this button so much, why didn't you do it yourself? IBM couldn't have done it, but Microsoft sure could."
 

 Discussion on question by Gray Sheep:…

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Ross Ridge
Apr 15, 2019 19:58
I suspect it won't end up mattering. He'll be be held in custody anyways while fighting his extradition which is likely to take longer than any sentence he receives.
 

 Discussion on question by Kaz: What w…

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Ross Ridge
Feb 8, 2019 18:10
@Raffzahn No one said it had world-wide effect. On the other hand for you to say it had no effect on Japan or that the video game market in Europe was comparable to the US market at the time is absurdly false.
Ross Ridge
Feb 8, 2019 18:10
@Tommy No, I reiterated what specifically I was disagreeing with in my second comment, and rather than address that and get back on topic you choose to debate other issues that you thought you could win instead. Trying now to blame this on your failure to communicate is just yet another attempt to try to deflect the issue.
Ross Ridge
Feb 8, 2019 18:10
@tommy I don't need to establish anything, you're the one making the extraordinary claim that the conventional view about this video game crash is revisionist history. Rather that trying to support your position, you'd rather argue about ARM CPUs and automobiles.
Ross Ridge
Feb 8, 2019 18:10
@Tommy You're just making strawman arguments, and not contradicting anything I've said. ARM CPUs came dominate the mobile phone markets because ARM's failure as a desktop CPU forced into embedded markets. That failure had nothing to with the video game crash.
Ross Ridge
Feb 8, 2019 18:10
@Tommy And ARM CPUs dominating the mobile phone market is irrelevant here as Intel CPU dominating personal computer and server markets. Both are a result events that had nothing to do with the crash.
Ross Ridge
Feb 8, 2019 18:10
@Tommy My argument was that fact the huge impact on the world-wide video game market is indisputable, and saying it was all "blown out of proportion" because it had no effect on Europe at the time is just your attempt at revisionist history. You might as well be arguing that it wasn't a significant event because it had no effect on Antartica.
Ross Ridge
Feb 8, 2019 18:10
@Tommy The video game market was insignificant Europe in 1983 (and even the home computer market was small in comparison). The crash had a huge impact on the world wide console market, even if Europe wasn't really part of it at the time. It's effect on Europe came later, when Japanese consoles eventually dominated instead of American ones. It's not like some European video console came to dominate the market in Europe or anywhere else.
 

 Discussion on question by Kenny LJ: I…

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Ross Ridge
Nov 15, 2018 14:51
A lot of the food that people eat today anywhere in the world be unrecognizable to people from the same region 500 years ago. Between changes in availability of ingredients, fashions, and technology few "foods" are the same as they were five centuries ago, if they even existed. Even something simple as an apple isn't available in the same varieties. In that sense most of what everyone eats today is actually modern.
 

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Ross Ridge
Nov 7, 2018 10:03
People will claim a connection to Kevin Bacon because they work at the same Whole Foods where Kevin Bacon's stand-in's mother-in-law's dog-walker occasionally shops, so I don't see the question giving a clear criteria on what it means to be "connected".
 

 Discussion on question by user20159: …

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Ross Ridge
Jul 29, 2018 15:54
@RobertColumbia Given the last sentence in the question, I don't think the original poster cares whether she's capable of doing the job or not. The original poster just wants revenge for being deceived.
 

 Discussion on question by jwzumwalt: …

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Ross Ridge
Apr 26, 2018 17:39
@jwzumwalt I had no doubt it was the word you wanted. The unfortunate part is what your choice of words has to say about you.
Ross Ridge
Apr 26, 2018 17:39
Unfortunate choice of words for the title.
 

 Discussion on question by Jet Blue: H…

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Ross Ridge
Apr 12, 2018 14:50
@ThorbjørnRavnAndersen A lot more retro computers supported virtual memory than you think. As cup already pointed out retro computers include minicomputers and mainframes, and there were tons of '386, '486, and Pentium PCs, all considered retro computers now.
Ross Ridge
Apr 12, 2018 14:50
@ThorbjørnRavnAndersen Lots of retro computers supported virtual memory, it's been around since the 60's. Not a lot personal computers did, at least not until the '386 became common in PCs.
Ross Ridge
Apr 12, 2018 14:50
In addition to overlays, another technique is virtual memory: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_memory
 

 Discussion on answer by user4012: Is …

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Ross Ridge
Feb 20, 2018 05:23
"anti-Antisemitism"?
 

 Discussion on question by Danny Schoe…

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Ross Ridge
Feb 7, 2018 20:40
Paper is a terrible medium for backing up data. Fires have destroyed countless archives of data stored in paper, and "fire-proof" boxes aren't workable solution for anything beyond storing a small amount of personal data.
 

 Discussion on answer by Craig W: Is i…

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Ross Ridge
Jan 8, 2018 16:13
@GlenPierce Would you give a loan to a dying person who is too sick to work? The husband almost certainly would've had take out the loans himself.
 

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Ross Ridge
Nov 30, 2017 21:28
Another factor muddying the waters about the real reason behind the internment of Japanese in the US was the fact that the Japanese on Hawaii (of all places) weren't interned.
 

 Discussion on question by Joanne: Can…

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Ross Ridge
Oct 30, 2017 21:17
@Dennis Why would it reentering be exciting if she uses a land crossing to return to Canada? A lot of people who travelled as visitors to the US from Canada 14 years ago can't prove they returned to Canada within the time limit so there'd be a lot of people being denied entry if the US normally made an issue of it. Why would she need to apply for anything on the return trip? She doesn't need a green card to return to her previous status.
Ross Ridge
Oct 30, 2017 21:17
Despite what's been said in response so far I'm not sure how likely in practice this would be a problem. The US has no way of knowing if you did or did not return to Canada 14 years ago. They're apparently unaware that you haven't been paying taxes, otherwise they'd have done something about that by now.
 

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Ross Ridge
Oct 26, 2017 08:28
@JeremyP And I never said they had access to a real Altair 8800 before they took it to MITS. Possibly you're confused by the fact the company that made the Altair 8800 and that Micro-Soft first demonstrated their BASIC interpreter for was named MITS and not Altair.
Ross Ridge
Oct 26, 2017 08:28
@JeremyP Nonetheless that's in fact how Micro-Soft first tested whether their BASIC interpreter ran on a Altair 8800. From wizzwizz4's link: "It took perhaps fifteen minutes to load the program, then the Teletype abruptly printed a memory prompt, then a ready prompt, and Allen began typing a few test commands. To everyone’s amazement, the software worked. There were bugs, of course, but the main thing was it worked."
Ross Ridge
Oct 26, 2017 08:28
@JeremyP They did have access to real hardware for testing, the hardware MITS provided for the demonstration. The first time they were able to test whether their BASIC interpreter worked on an Altair 8800 was when they took it to MITS to sell it to them.
Ross Ridge
Oct 26, 2017 08:28
@JeremyP Yes, that's exactly what I said.
Ross Ridge
Oct 26, 2017 08:28
As I said, the article you linked confirms my guess. They were only able to test whether it worked on an a Altair 8800 by taking to it MITS and running it on an Altair 8800. Their testing on the emulator only tested whether it worked on the emulator.
Ross Ridge
Oct 26, 2017 08:28
My guess is that they used a real Altair 8800 to test it. The emulator would've been a tool to speed up development, but it couldn't replace testing on the actual hardware. From your link that appears to be what happened. They weren't sure it would work until they ran it on an actual Altair 8800. A comment in the source code, "FOR SIMULATOR FIXUPS", suggests that it was conditionally assembled according to whether it would be run on the emulator not, making the code for the emulator and the Altair different. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/…
Ross Ridge
Oct 26, 2017 08:28
My guess would be because they needed to make modifications to their BASIC interpreter to fit the specific behaviours of the Altair 8800.
Ross Ridge
Oct 26, 2017 08:28
Designing an emulator for an early 8-bit CPU that only needs to be able to run a program you're developing isn't that hard. It's not like trying to make an emulator for entire an personal computer or video game console that needs to run every game made for it. My guess at the answers would be: Like any other software. The 8008 User's Manual. It wasn't particularly faithful. Like any other software. It's not that hard. The 8080 User's Manual. None.