That is exactly what Apple TV (or even just iTunes) does. Saves a lot of time. There is no filter the ads just don't exist in the first place. Most TV shows aren't worth $2 a pop to watch but it is nice to have the option.
That's pretty cool. Reminds me of a guy I met on a plane once who worked on a system to calculate a stock market index using 68000 assembly faster than the exchange had calculated it. They could then trade index funds knowing the direction and change slightly ahead of time.
Yeah but they are just basic commands to read and write memory directly. (hey it was DMA before the term was coined) I did use those. I was more interested in things like reading the paddle control values or clicking the speaker with those commands.
I actually taught myself assembely language using a book called "Apple Machine Language" by Don and Kurt Inman when I was a teenager. I wrote a terminal program so I could use a 300 baud modem I bought from my local Radio Shack. The screen scroll routines are built in so I just had to capture and send characters to/from a serial interface card which came with enough documentation to figure it out. That program served well until I got a hold of some real terminal software. The whole experience meant I could sleep walk through vax assembly. When I took a 68000 lab I partnered with a girl who was a good writer so we were the first team to finish and have our report written before the end of lab every week.
You give me an idea. I may change my signature to write my name in ASCII using POKE commands.
So how long does a web TV box take to boot? Or a TIVO for that matter. The digital TV converter boxes take a few seconds to boot but it may take longer than that for the tubes in your old set to warm up. (kidding) On a related topic, when I moved to Boise the cable system offered 'digital cable' so I tried it out. Most of the channels were analog run through the digital box. The digital channels took 1 to 2 seconds to switch. The analog channels took the same 1 to 2 seconds apparently for consistency. I just returned the box and stuck with the analog channels I could flip through quickly. Now I have no cable type TV so I only have a dozen channels to flip through and I can actually either give up or find something to watch.
Yeah, well I used to flip the power switch quickly off and then back on while playing a game called "Falcons" which would scramble the contents of memory enough to change the graphics but leave the game playable.
1 Sec is right but waiting for the 5 1/4 inch floppy to boot did take some time. I still have my ][+. Haven't powered it on in years but maybe I will today to time it.
Are you kidding? Condo builders don't care about that stuff. They just care if they LOOK good in a photo and have easy access to the golf coarse. Marketing will spin it to let you know they are 'pest free' environments. I say we just send some coackroaches to Mars and see how long they can survive.
Yeah right. Just try finding one of those. Of the correct sex.
This summer I met a blonde Unix system administrator in a bar. Well at a meetup.com group in a bar. I was completely speachless for a few seconds. She does exist! I also met a woman who hates Google. But then I also met a woman who sold a $3000+ mac pro for $300 who didn't know what she had. It has been a busy summer. Now my daughter is home for the school year. Game over man! GAME OVER!
I haven't priced solar cells recently... in the 1990 solar car race we had the options of covering the car with 11% cells for a coupple thousand dollars, 13% for about $12,000 15% for about $60,000 17% for I forget.. $X00,000. We went with the 15% efficient cells.
You might be preventing the pilot from getting to the back of the plane with an extra fire extinguisher or viewing wing/engine damage out a rear window or creating some other non-terrorist related problem. Not saying impossible just more to think about than just terrorists. Your real issue is the planes have already been built and we aren't about to throw them all away now.
Didn't the Newton come out before the Palm Pilot? The iPhone is a do-over of the Newton in a sense with modern technology. Apple has become expert in determining when Moore's Law catches up to an application to make it worth while. On the iPhone you could say they jumped the gun by releasing the first one without 3G and they should have waited another year. Or it was a warm up to get the 'impossible to see ahead of time' bugs out. Before lowering the price making it appealing to the general population. Either way, I think they know what they are doing. Another example, they did this with the ipod too. The very first version only worked with Mac.
I started using Excite after I saw the sign on their building in 1996 in the valley. I heard that story too so I'm sure it has happened more than once. Who's wafer fab did you work in? I worked for ICBD (a division of a large company) at the time designing ASICs but our fabs were not in the bay area. Once excite sold out and started placing annoying ads I quit using it. Then I had a roomate who was in the stanford phd program who pointed me to google in the late 90s when I complained about excite to him. I still have the original account on excite though.
6502 Machine Language (assembled on paper) in the early 80s
In college I was in the final class required to take FORTRAN
VAX Assembly Class
SPICE (many classes)
68000 Assembly for a Lab
ADA Class
Edited some C64 BASIC once
C and C++ projects in CG, Image Processing, etc classes.
VHDL
Learned enough HTML to make a web page around 1994 (Sun/Mosaic time frame)
Perl
Verilog
I have a book on Java and Java script but have never learned them.
I have a book on Ruby on Rails but I haven't cracked it.
I use VHDL and Verilog for ASIC design but at this point in time people assume if you design ASICS you use Verilog and if you design FPGAs you use VHDL. I use either depending on the situation and SPICE with a mixed signal simulator (Mixed as in analog AND digital with the same simulator)
Most software developers who want to do something with some hardware (finally get around to building that teledildonic robot girlfriend or robot war entry for example or just make a weather monitor interface) should learn VHDL and get a kit from one of the two big FPGA companies. Xilinx, and Altera. Your not going to make an ASIC unless you have hundreds of thousands of dollars handy to make masks and process wafers. Your money is better spent getting an EE degree in a program that lets you fab some parts
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That is exactly what Apple TV (or even just iTunes) does. Saves a lot of time. There is no filter the ads just don't exist in the first place. Most TV shows aren't worth $2 a pop to watch but it is nice to have the option.
Step 1. remove main sail
Step 2. tie ropes from sail to harness
Step 3. climb to top of highest mast and jump off
Step 4. Arrrrrrrr
That's pretty cool. Reminds me of a guy I met on a plane once who worked on a system to calculate a stock market index using 68000 assembly faster than the exchange had calculated it. They could then trade index funds knowing the direction and change slightly ahead of time.
I actually taught myself assembely language using a book called "Apple Machine Language" by Don and Kurt Inman when I was a teenager. I wrote a terminal program so I could use a 300 baud modem I bought from my local Radio Shack. The screen scroll routines are built in so I just had to capture and send characters to/from a serial interface card which came with enough documentation to figure it out. That program served well until I got a hold of some real terminal software. The whole experience meant I could sleep walk through vax assembly. When I took a 68000 lab I partnered with a girl who was a good writer so we were the first team to finish and have our report written before the end of lab every week.
You give me an idea. I may change my signature to write my name in ASCII using POKE commands.
So how long does a web TV box take to boot? Or a TIVO for that matter. The digital TV converter boxes take a few seconds to boot but it may take longer than that for the tubes in your old set to warm up. (kidding) On a related topic, when I moved to Boise the cable system offered 'digital cable' so I tried it out. Most of the channels were analog run through the digital box. The digital channels took 1 to 2 seconds to switch. The analog channels took the same 1 to 2 seconds apparently for consistency. I just returned the box and stuck with the analog channels I could flip through quickly. Now I have no cable type TV so I only have a dozen channels to flip through and I can actually either give up or find something to watch.
1 Sec is right but waiting for the 5 1/4 inch floppy to boot did take some time. I still have my ][+. Haven't powered it on in years but maybe I will today to time it.
stupid stupid stupid stupid..............
They got Floating Minivans in Houston!... Houston, YOU have a problem.
Are you kidding? Condo builders don't care about that stuff. They just care if they LOOK good in a photo and have easy access to the golf coarse. Marketing will spin it to let you know they are 'pest free' environments. I say we just send some coackroaches to Mars and see how long they can survive.
Yeah right. Just try finding one of those. Of the correct sex.
This summer I met a blonde Unix system administrator in a bar. Well at a meetup.com group in a bar. I was completely speachless for a few seconds. She does exist! I also met a woman who hates Google. But then I also met a woman who sold a $3000+ mac pro for $300 who didn't know what she had. It has been a busy summer. Now my daughter is home for the school year. Game over man! GAME OVER!
Single Dad and pres of PWP TCN chapter. http://www.pwptcn.com/
This says it all...
I always thought "The Eagle has Langed" on the Earth's Moon. Actually, the bird shit is penguin poop from the linux based OS on the rover.
Mountain Climbers?
So what is that today?
This is incorrect. There are already a number of books and more on the way. http://search.oreilly.com/?q=iphone&submit.x=14&submit.y=13
Yeah, those people, the ones who lie, cheat or steal for an employer are the ones who are paid on commission.
YES!
> They are going to use taxpayer dollars for this? If I lived in > NC *I* would be the one shouting 'WTF?' for real!
Are you kidding? Of coarse they have to recall the 'free' ones before they start charging a premium to get one.
You might be preventing the pilot from getting to the back of the plane with an extra fire extinguisher or viewing wing/engine damage out a rear window or creating some other non-terrorist related problem. Not saying impossible just more to think about than just terrorists. Your real issue is the planes have already been built and we aren't about to throw them all away now.
Didn't the Newton come out before the Palm Pilot? The iPhone is a do-over of the Newton in a sense with modern technology. Apple has become expert in determining when Moore's Law catches up to an application to make it worth while. On the iPhone you could say they jumped the gun by releasing the first one without 3G and they should have waited another year. Or it was a warm up to get the 'impossible to see ahead of time' bugs out. Before lowering the price making it appealing to the general population. Either way, I think they know what they are doing. Another example, they did this with the ipod too. The very first version only worked with Mac.
I started using Excite after I saw the sign on their building in 1996 in the valley. I heard that story too so I'm sure it has happened more than once. Who's wafer fab did you work in? I worked for ICBD (a division of a large company) at the time designing ASICs but our fabs were not in the bay area. Once excite sold out and started placing annoying ads I quit using it. Then I had a roomate who was in the stanford phd program who pointed me to google in the late 90s when I complained about excite to him. I still have the original account on excite though.
Did Jack and Jill go up the hill after that?
Where am I even going to FIND a dump truck full of tubes?
Applesoft BASIC in 1979 age 11.
6502 Machine Language (assembled on paper) in the early 80s
In college I was in the final class required to take FORTRAN
VAX Assembly Class
SPICE (many classes)
68000 Assembly for a Lab
ADA Class
Edited some C64 BASIC once
C and C++ projects in CG, Image Processing, etc classes.
VHDL
Learned enough HTML to make a web page around 1994 (Sun/Mosaic time frame)
Perl
Verilog
I have a book on Java and Java script but have never learned them.
I have a book on Ruby on Rails but I haven't cracked it.
I use VHDL and Verilog for ASIC design but at this point in time people assume if you design ASICS you use Verilog and if you design FPGAs you use VHDL. I use either depending on the situation and SPICE with a mixed signal simulator (Mixed as in analog AND digital with the same simulator)
Most software developers who want to do something with some hardware (finally get around to building that teledildonic robot girlfriend or robot war entry for example or just make a weather monitor interface) should learn VHDL and get a kit from one of the two big FPGA companies. Xilinx, and Altera. Your not going to make an ASIC unless you have hundreds of thousands of dollars handy to make masks and process wafers. Your money is better spent getting an EE degree in a program that lets you fab some parts
For the record I do own stock in both HP and Apple.