http://cymonsgames.com/asciiportal/ is a "port" of the famous Portal to, yeah, well, to an 80x40 ASCII Screen...
http://cymonsgames.com/ in generall hosts some nice time wasters. I also liked Super Serif Brothers (http://foon.co.uk/farcade/ssb/) but the site is down at the moment...
In most bigger towns in Austria you have SMS Mobile Phone Parking. (https://www.handyparken.at/)
Its necessary to register upfront so its only for day-to-day users, but this is how it works:
0.) register your phone number, optionally associate it with a license plate number you usually by tickets for
1.) park
2.) send SMS with number of minutes you want to park to a number
3.) wait to receive receipt by SMS
The people checking for valid tickets (in an awful case of denglish called "Park Sheriffs") have a small mobile device where they can check for a certain license plate if there is a mobile ticket available on the central servers.
I guess its as expensive to give all the "Park Sheriffs" such a mobile device as putting a machine at every other street corner.
And it works great. There are options for having a time delayed ticked or to by tickets for a different license plate of course.
You can still by paper tickets at newspaperstands and the like if you are not registered or prefer the old way or have no mobile phone or...
the Austrian public radio has a very successful alternative program called FM4 and they have a (in Austria) very well known platform for people who make music to exchange their songs and make them available for the public.
This platform is located at http://fm4.orf.at/soundpark and has (metric!) tons of music of all different kinds. I'm afraid the website is German only but it should be accessible for you English speaking people too.
The Austrian National Television has been switching off almost all their analog transmitters in the last couple of months, and the last one will be turned off this year.
Its good to know assembler because it teaches you how it works on a more basic level.
Its good to be able to debug and optimise in assembler. (I do that on a weekly basis... but I don't actually write in assembler tough.)
Its necessary if you work on microcontrollers. (Again, debugging and optimising.)
(Optimization can also be done by looking at the assembler code a compiler generates, crying, then rewriting your C-code to generate better assebly code..)
So yes, its quite useful. (And knowledge never hurts....)
astifter
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http://cymonsgames.com/asciiportal/ is a "port" of the famous Portal to, yeah, well, to an 80x40 ASCII Screen... http://cymonsgames.com/ in generall hosts some nice time wasters. I also liked Super Serif Brothers (http://foon.co.uk/farcade/ssb/) but the site is down at the moment...
In most bigger towns in Austria you have SMS Mobile Phone Parking. (https://www.handyparken.at/) Its necessary to register upfront so its only for day-to-day users, but this is how it works: 0.) register your phone number, optionally associate it with a license plate number you usually by tickets for 1.) park 2.) send SMS with number of minutes you want to park to a number 3.) wait to receive receipt by SMS The people checking for valid tickets (in an awful case of denglish called "Park Sheriffs") have a small mobile device where they can check for a certain license plate if there is a mobile ticket available on the central servers. I guess its as expensive to give all the "Park Sheriffs" such a mobile device as putting a machine at every other street corner. And it works great. There are options for having a time delayed ticked or to by tickets for a different license plate of course. You can still by paper tickets at newspaperstands and the like if you are not registered or prefer the old way or have no mobile phone or...
The video was just now featured in the Austrian Television news broadcast! I have seen it on /. first of course :-)
Grettings from Austria!
Hi,
the Austrian public radio has a very successful alternative program called FM4 and they have a (in Austria) very well known platform for people who make music to exchange their songs and make them available for the public.
This platform is located at http://fm4.orf.at/soundpark and has (metric!) tons of music of all different kinds. I'm afraid the website is German only but it should be accessible for you English speaking people too.
Greetings, astifter
The Austrian National Television has been switching off almost all their analog transmitters in the last couple of months, and the last one will be turned off this year.
Its good to know assembler because it teaches you how it works on a more basic level. Its good to be able to debug and optimise in assembler. (I do that on a weekly basis... but I don't actually write in assembler tough.)
Its necessary if you work on microcontrollers. (Again, debugging and optimising.)
(Optimization can also be done by looking at the assembler code a compiler generates, crying, then rewriting your C-code to generate better assebly code..)
So yes, its quite useful. (And knowledge never hurts....)
astifter