This is by Eric Raymond. C99 _is_ modern. Not to you, not to me, but to some people.
I managed to get past the C99 error by compiling compile.c manually and then bodging -std=c99 everywhere in the Makefile, but now I'm getting a bunch of errors about macro DATIME.
So yeah I'm guessing this thing needs a lot of work before people can actually run it on a current system.
I downloaded this to my Linux box and tried to run "make", but it complained about needing to be in C99 mode. Is this release only compatible with the original hardware and OS it was written on or something? I thought from the README it was supposed to be a port that works on modern computers/OSes?
Do we really need yet another C64 emulator? It would be more interesting to see emulator folks working on something a bit rarer which doesn't already have an emulator, like an IBM 5100 or something.
It's their anti-science position. Going to Europa and finding alien life might encourage the teaching of evolutions in schools.
It will also interfere with their plan to teach that the Earth is a the center of the universe, and the eventual mandate to make it official policy that the world is flat.
That will put the godless atheists in their place: in the lower left corner of the flat world, where the climate is terrible and all the icky stuff collects at the bottom.
Except it won't - they'll just claim it was faked or staged in some way. The mentality of these sort of people is that they will automatically and unquestioningly reject anything that does not fit their world view.
Over here in the UK one of the cinema chains (Cineworld) has a thing called an Unlimited Card. For £14.99 a month you can see as many movies as you like (with a couple of restrictions). Given that single adult ticket prices are now over £8 for 2D films it's pretty easy to see that this is a no-brainer if you want to see more than a couple of movies a month. Having one also tends to expand your options of what movies you see in the cinema - for example, back when I was paying full price for movie tickets, I'd only have gone to see triple-A blockbusters every once in a while, but now I go to the cinema most weekends and usually see two or three movies including some that aren't on the A-list.
The restrictions aren't particularly onerous: you can't book online or by telephone, you have to show up at the cinema with your card (it has a photo on it, so it's not transferable); once you've got a ticket for one movie you can't get another movie ticket until after the first movie ends; and there is a small surcharge for 3D movies (currently £1.50, and you need to bring your own 3D glasses, or you can purchase some for a further 80p). I was initially a bit concerned about not being able to book in advance but I've had the card for almost 2 years now and the only time I ever had any trouble getting in to the showing I wanted was Harry Potter 7 part 2 (I was able to get in to a later showing).
Unfortunately MetroGnome is already in use as the name of the group of characters who entertain children at the Metro Centre in Gateshead, England (one of the largest shopping complexes in Europe)
consequently a WRT54G isn't much use since it doesn't have a built-in DSL modem.
Huh? It goes: Cable/DSL --> Cable/DSL Modem --> Linksys router
The router then can go via wired or wireless to all your computers. Not including a modem means the router can works with either cable or dsl or whatever else...
Most UK ISPs supply a USB DSL modem because it is the cheapest option, and this can't work with the setup you describe. Also as someone else mentioned, all DSL in the UK uses PPPoA, not PPPoE.
Are there any equivalent modifications for Linksys' wireless DSL products? Like, for example, the WAG54G or similar? Over here in the UK, cable only has about 30% coverage, so the vast majority of people have DSL and consequently a WRT54G isn't much use since it doesn't have a built-in DSL modem.
Personally I'm just thankful I live in a country where people only get charged for the calls they actually make. I've never understood this idea of having to pay for incoming calls, and fortunately none of the telephone companies have been silly enough to try and introduce it over here in the UK.
It's not clear from the article whether this will ONLY affect genuine RPC-1 drives, or will also affect new drives that have been modified to remove region restrictions. Either way, though, it sounds like Microsoft has thought up yet another reason for me not to get Vista.
A guide for how to choose a game for the least popular home console this generation doesn't strike me as being terribly useful. The concepts are sound, I suppose, but really it needs to be an all-formats job. Also, what about gamers who prefer import games? It's going to be really tough to please them without having a clue. Personally I think the time-honoured method of actually asking people what they want for Christmas works pretty well and is much less hitty-missy.
I'm really glad this mail-in rebate stuff is uncommon over here in the UK. Of course, it helps that there's a single sales tax rate for the whole country and it's already included in the price.
I'd just wish they'd bring Adult Swim back to the UK
What do you mean, "back"? It was never here. Sure, a couple of the shows that were on Adult Swim in the US got aired on Toonami (formerly CNX - not to be confused with the censoriffic manga publisher CMX) but beyond that there's been precisely nothing. Recently, however, a little-known channel called Rapture TV picked up Fullmetal Alchemist and Wolf's Rain and has been showing them weekly on Tuesdays (FMA) and Thursdays (Wolf's Rain). They can be found on Sky Digital channel 288.
UK anime cons have had a similar system to this for the past several years. It's called AEGIS and plays back digital video according to a predetermined running schedule, including automatically fitting AMV's, adverts etc into the gaps between programmes. At AyaCon 2005, the whole system was controlled remotely from a single location in the operations room, streaming video across the building's CAT5 network to remote modified VLC clients running on Mac Minis. No runs of coax cable required.
Having attended several UK conventions over the years, I've seen AEGIS in action and it's pretty polished and reliable. The Mac port is, I'm told, a fairly recent development, and consequently has a few issues... audio starts slightly before video, so there is about a one second delay before you actually start seeing a picture on the screen - it's not out of sync, but it does mean the first second of video gets kind of cut off.
I don't appear to be able to find a website for it though; Googling it only brings up websites related to Gatekeepers or Gundam and even after eliminating those the only related site I could find is the ANN forum post I quoted above.
it's not like it's expensive to go 64 bit these days.
Maybe if you're earning >$35k a year it's not, but for those of us who are likely to be in $18k/year jobs for the foreseeable future the cost of a new motherboard, CPU, memory and graphics card is a considerable amount.
"Paparazzi Shields for famous celebrities. It's like a force field!"
Nah, it's more like point defence lasers. A force field would be totally impenetrable; and since it's cameras we're talking about in this case, that'd mean it'd be opaque, which would be pretty useless if they're planning on deploying this thing in cinemas. If it's accurate enough, a point defence method should be more efficient than a blanket force field style solution anyway.
I notice that the story says that this might also be effective against staphylococcus aureus. Obviously this particular serum is going to take many years to be developed into a viable human-usable treatment; does anyone know of anything that is currently available (without prescription) which can be used to treat it?
I actually came across this a few days ago when I was talking to a friend who wanted to be able to encrypt his entire Windows filesystem. There doesn't seem to be a freeware product which will do this for Windows, but loop-aes (which IBM mention in their SoulPad paper) does it for Linux, so I suggested he could boot Linux and have it load QEMU and run Windows from there. I notice that IBM have thought about it a bit more than I have though, they mention stuff like tweaking the Linux startup so that USB modules load first. It's a pity there aren't any more details of the procedures necessary, but I guess if they're going to make it into a product and sell it then they can't go giving away all the info about how it works. Somebody should see if they can figure out an open source alternative.
Maybe they can invite people to rename their band. "Carbon Silicon"?!
Both carbon and silicon have a valency of 4. Carbon is the base of human life (hence the much-bandied-about SF term "carbon-based life-forms") and silicon (if we ever manage to get computers to think) will presumably be the base of artificial life.
So, you can throw out a crappy PC and buy a new one for $400 every year, OR you can buy a MacMini for $500, and use it for at least three years. And frankly, if you're spending $400 on a PC, the GPU is not going to be able to run many cutting-edge games anyway. So it's hard to see what a MacMini couldn't do for the average home user that a $400 POS Wintel box could...
Two years, not three. Remember you'll have to throw your MacMini away when Apple finally moves to x86.
Even a POS GPU has more VRAM than the MacMini's GPU.
Not all PCs are Intel, some (hopefully more, in the future) are AMD.
You can upgrade a PC's GPU by adding (if it's onboard) or changing the graphics card. You can't do that with a MacMini.
Even a really crummy budget GPU such as an FX5200 can make a stab at running modern games (given enough VRAM - even budget cards have like 128Mb VRAM these days. Wise up, Apple! 32Mb is feeble!). Sure it won't win any awards or go at 120 grillion FPS or whatever the "standard" is for top-end graphics cards these days, but it's usually able to do enough to be playable.
For those who are curious about what "live" action might look like for a robot movie, start here with an intro to the Citroen commercial, and then get the commercial here.
I've seen that commercial on the telly, it looks pretty nifty.. I remember thinking "ooh, it's a Transformer" when I first saw it actually.
There's two things wrong with this idea. Firstly, what format are they going to put it in that doesn't have some "workaround" available? Secondly, I've heard that Rowling hates the idea of ebooks and that this is why none of the Potter books have (legitimately) ever appeared in ebook format, which is a bit of a shame really.
"When we disable a modem for non-payment or virus/spam abuse, we do it through rebooting the modem with a new BIN file."
Interesting. I guess that means in the US people with cable don't own their own modems? I doubt that broadband providers over here in the UK would be able to get away with such a move.
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With gcc 4.8.4 I'm getting: misc.h:71:41: error: storage size of 'ts' isn't known
Yep, this is one of the errors I am seeing also.
This is by Eric Raymond. C99 _is_ modern. Not to you, not to me, but to some people.
I managed to get past the C99 error by compiling compile.c manually and then bodging -std=c99 everywhere in the Makefile, but now I'm getting a bunch of errors about macro DATIME.
So yeah I'm guessing this thing needs a lot of work before people can actually run it on a current system.
I downloaded this to my Linux box and tried to run "make", but it complained about needing to be in C99 mode. Is this release only compatible with the original hardware and OS it was written on or something? I thought from the README it was supposed to be a port that works on modern computers/OSes?
Do we really need yet another C64 emulator? It would be more interesting to see emulator folks working on something a bit rarer which doesn't already have an emulator, like an IBM 5100 or something.
It's their anti-science position. Going to Europa and finding alien life might encourage the teaching of evolutions in schools.
It will also interfere with their plan to teach that the Earth is a the center of the universe, and the eventual mandate to make it official policy that the world is flat.
That will put the godless atheists in their place: in the lower left corner of the flat world, where the climate is terrible and all the icky stuff collects at the bottom.
Except it won't - they'll just claim it was faked or staged in some way. The mentality of these sort of people is that they will automatically and unquestioningly reject anything that does not fit their world view.
Over here in the UK one of the cinema chains (Cineworld) has a thing called an Unlimited Card. For £14.99 a month you can see as many movies as you like (with a couple of restrictions). Given that single adult ticket prices are now over £8 for 2D films it's pretty easy to see that this is a no-brainer if you want to see more than a couple of movies a month. Having one also tends to expand your options of what movies you see in the cinema - for example, back when I was paying full price for movie tickets, I'd only have gone to see triple-A blockbusters every once in a while, but now I go to the cinema most weekends and usually see two or three movies including some that aren't on the A-list.
The restrictions aren't particularly onerous: you can't book online or by telephone, you have to show up at the cinema with your card (it has a photo on it, so it's not transferable); once you've got a ticket for one movie you can't get another movie ticket until after the first movie ends; and there is a small surcharge for 3D movies (currently £1.50, and you need to bring your own 3D glasses, or you can purchase some for a further 80p). I was initially a bit concerned about not being able to book in advance but I've had the card for almost 2 years now and the only time I ever had any trouble getting in to the showing I wanted was Harry Potter 7 part 2 (I was able to get in to a later showing).
My vote? MetroGnome? !!!
Unfortunately MetroGnome is already in use as the name of the group of characters who entertain children at the Metro Centre in Gateshead, England (one of the largest shopping complexes in Europe)consequently a WRT54G isn't much use since it doesn't have a built-in DSL modem.
Huh? It goes:
Cable/DSL --> Cable/DSL Modem --> Linksys router
The router then can go via wired or wireless to all your computers. Not including a modem means the router can works with either cable or dsl or whatever else...
Most UK ISPs supply a USB DSL modem because it is the cheapest option, and this can't work with the setup you describe. Also as someone else mentioned, all DSL in the UK uses PPPoA, not PPPoE.
Are there any equivalent modifications for Linksys' wireless DSL products? Like, for example, the WAG54G or similar? Over here in the UK, cable only has about 30% coverage, so the vast majority of people have DSL and consequently a WRT54G isn't much use since it doesn't have a built-in DSL modem.
Personally I'm just thankful I live in a country where people only get charged for the calls they actually make. I've never understood this idea of having to pay for incoming calls, and fortunately none of the telephone companies have been silly enough to try and introduce it over here in the UK.
The music is so low quality that it's hardly worth it - 32kbps mono, 22kHz? No thanks.
For anybody who is actually interested in extracting the music from the Flash files, you can use a utility like HugFlash to do it.
It's not clear from the article whether this will ONLY affect genuine RPC-1 drives, or will also affect new drives that have been modified to remove region restrictions. Either way, though, it sounds like Microsoft has thought up yet another reason for me not to get Vista.
A guide for how to choose a game for the least popular home console this generation doesn't strike me as being terribly useful. The concepts are sound, I suppose, but really it needs to be an all-formats job. Also, what about gamers who prefer import games? It's going to be really tough to please them without having a clue. Personally I think the time-honoured method of actually asking people what they want for Christmas works pretty well and is much less hitty-missy.
I'm really glad this mail-in rebate stuff is uncommon over here in the UK. Of course, it helps that there's a single sales tax rate for the whole country and it's already included in the price.
From a post on Anime News Network forums:
Having attended several UK conventions over the years, I've seen AEGIS in action and it's pretty polished and reliable. The Mac port is, I'm told, a fairly recent development, and consequently has a few issues... audio starts slightly before video, so there is about a one second delay before you actually start seeing a picture on the screen - it's not out of sync, but it does mean the first second of video gets kind of cut off.
I don't appear to be able to find a website for it though; Googling it only brings up websites related to Gatekeepers or Gundam and even after eliminating those the only related site I could find is the ANN forum post I quoted above.
Nah, it's more like point defence lasers. A force field would be totally impenetrable; and since it's cameras we're talking about in this case, that'd mean it'd be opaque, which would be pretty useless if they're planning on deploying this thing in cinemas. If it's accurate enough, a point defence method should be more efficient than a blanket force field style solution anyway.
I notice that the story says that this might also be effective against staphylococcus aureus. Obviously this particular serum is going to take many years to be developed into a viable human-usable treatment; does anyone know of anything that is currently available (without prescription) which can be used to treat it?
I actually came across this a few days ago when I was talking to a friend who wanted to be able to encrypt his entire Windows filesystem. There doesn't seem to be a freeware product which will do this for Windows, but loop-aes (which IBM mention in their SoulPad paper) does it for Linux, so I suggested he could boot Linux and have it load QEMU and run Windows from there. I notice that IBM have thought about it a bit more than I have though, they mention stuff like tweaking the Linux startup so that USB modules load first. It's a pity there aren't any more details of the procedures necessary, but I guess if they're going to make it into a product and sell it then they can't go giving away all the info about how it works. Somebody should see if they can figure out an open source alternative.
Both carbon and silicon have a valency of 4. Carbon is the base of human life (hence the much-bandied-about SF term "carbon-based life-forms") and silicon (if we ever manage to get computers to think) will presumably be the base of artificial life.
There's two things wrong with this idea. Firstly, what format are they going to put it in that doesn't have some "workaround" available? Secondly, I've heard that Rowling hates the idea of ebooks and that this is why none of the Potter books have (legitimately) ever appeared in ebook format, which is a bit of a shame really.
Interesting. I guess that means in the US people with cable don't own their own modems? I doubt that broadband providers over here in the UK would be able to get away with such a move.