Great. Now tell me why an "indie" would go through the typical game console manufacturer bullshit (pay thousands of dollars up front IF Sony decides you're worthy to be let in) to make a game for the Vita, which is collecting dust on the shelves, instead of on a iOS or Android, which are flying off the shelves and have low/no cost of entry?
The only thing the Vita has to offer is actual gaming controls. Nintendo has that too, plus an actual customer base.
I'm going to guess that you don't wear glasses, or you would unserstand that for those of us who do, it's either crappy clip-ons or expensive prescription sunglasses.
Doesn't do much on OS X either, though at least it runs the same CPU architecture as Windows these days.
These people don't have a list of "Microsoft Customers", they simply know that Microsoft is such an 800-pound gorilla of a monoculture that they can call any random phone number, claim to know that you run Windows, and if you don't, that's simply statistical error.
Many years ago, I went out of state to where there was a scratch-off lottery. I bought five one-dollar tickets. Two of them were $1 winners, and another was a $5 winner. I bought another two tickets, and they were losers.
So money-wise I broke even, but I had lots of fun scratching the wax off all those tickets! (I always enjoyed scratching up crayons and stuff when I was a kid, so yes, I was entertained.)
There is only one reason I have Silverblight installed on my OS X laptop, and that's the (laggy as fuck) Harmony remote configurator. Since that's the only thing I have which uses that crapware, I have the extension disabled in my web browser unless I'm actually using it.
The Harmony remote is such a total piece of crap, and that Silverblight configurator crapplet doesn't make it any better. The best part is when I drop it, its batteries bounce and it resets and thinks all devices are off. Fuck you very much, Logitech. If it weren't for some codes that I couldn't discover otherwise for when I eventually make my own damn remote (someday when I have enough free time), it would be completely worthless to me.
One day the student came to the master and said "There are too many programming languages! I am tired of having to learn thirty programming languages! I shall write a new programming language to replace them all!"
The master smacked the student upside the head. "Idiot! Then we would all have to learn thirty-one programming languages!" The student was enlightened.
Unfortunately, it was only the one student who was enlightened. Now we all have to learn fifty programming languages.
Rackspace HQ is in a dead mall, but they don't locate their servers there because of the power it would require. I think they were originally only in an expansion section of the mall (the Mervyn's building), but now occupy all of it. The northern half of the mall interior can be seen on Google street view.
That's nothing. Try being behind modern sedans while driving in a high-seat vehicle like an SUV. Those curved rear windows at 45 degree or shallower angles are able to reflect the summer sun (and there's a lot of it in Texas in the summer), mostly when going southbound or toward the sun. Sure, it's not quite as bright as looking directly into the sun, but it's still a real pain.
Even someone leaving his brights on at night isn't that bad, because he's coming from the other direction and will pass you very soon, while you could be stuck behind that beige shitbox for miles, and there's usually another right in front of it even if you pass.
I'm going to guess that's some of the RWTS code, probably 13-sector. That A2 GCR code nibblizing was nuts. (Even with linefeeds.)
Sometime last decade I got a Catweasel board and hacked up some code to read Apple II (both 13 and 16 sector) and C64 tracks. But at least it had a real address mark nibble that wasn't used for anything else. The C64 used regular nibbles for sector headers, so if you got out of sync during the decode you could get really lost.
I imaged a LOT of A2 discs just because I had them and that Catweasel.
That 13-sector code doesn't look much less evil in C:
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It could have turned into a Helvetica Scenario.
...and nothing of importance was found.
Not to mention that pile of cash is going to trip off all the drug dogs from a mile away because 90 percent of U.S. bills carry traces of cocaine.
Great. Now tell me why an "indie" would go through the typical game console manufacturer bullshit (pay thousands of dollars up front IF Sony decides you're worthy to be let in) to make a game for the Vita, which is collecting dust on the shelves, instead of on a iOS or Android, which are flying off the shelves and have low/no cost of entry?
The only thing the Vita has to offer is actual gaming controls. Nintendo has that too, plus an actual customer base.
I'm going to guess that you don't wear glasses, or you would unserstand that for those of us who do, it's either crappy clip-ons or expensive prescription sunglasses.
There are only 10 kinds of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't.
So "Monte-Carlo optimization"? Wow. You should submit that story to thedailywtf.com, there's probably a free coffee mug in it for you.
Joke's on you, the FCC doesn't care, though the FTC might.
Doesn't do much on OS X either, though at least it runs the same CPU architecture as Windows these days.
These people don't have a list of "Microsoft Customers", they simply know that Microsoft is such an 800-pound gorilla of a monoculture that they can call any random phone number, claim to know that you run Windows, and if you don't, that's simply statistical error.
Many years ago, I went out of state to where there was a scratch-off lottery. I bought five one-dollar tickets. Two of them were $1 winners, and another was a $5 winner. I bought another two tickets, and they were losers.
So money-wise I broke even, but I had lots of fun scratching the wax off all those tickets! (I always enjoyed scratching up crayons and stuff when I was a kid, so yes, I was entertained.)
There is only one reason I have Silverblight installed on my OS X laptop, and that's the (laggy as fuck) Harmony remote configurator. Since that's the only thing I have which uses that crapware, I have the extension disabled in my web browser unless I'm actually using it.
The Harmony remote is such a total piece of crap, and that Silverblight configurator crapplet doesn't make it any better. The best part is when I drop it, its batteries bounce and it resets and thinks all devices are off. Fuck you very much, Logitech. If it weren't for some codes that I couldn't discover otherwise for when I eventually make my own damn remote (someday when I have enough free time), it would be completely worthless to me.
My viruses are totally retro. They use 8-track tapes.
"Xbox One is watching you fap"
Just think of the market research value of finding out what you fap to!
A subscription fee doesn't help. Here's a helpful infographic:
http://www.arinmorf.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/20040319h.jpg
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Becasuse a senator said we had to open it to find out what was inside it.
The clambake is a lie.
One day the student came to the master and said "There are too many programming languages! I am tired of having to learn thirty programming languages! I shall write a new programming language to replace them all!"
The master smacked the student upside the head. "Idiot! Then we would all have to learn thirty-one programming languages!" The student was enlightened.
Unfortunately, it was only the one student who was enlightened. Now we all have to learn fifty programming languages.
Rackspace HQ is in a dead mall, but they don't locate their servers there because of the power it would require. I think they were originally only in an expansion section of the mall (the Mervyn's building), but now occupy all of it. The northern half of the mall interior can be seen on Google street view.
I'm sure we'll put our top man on that right away.
That's nothing. Try being behind modern sedans while driving in a high-seat vehicle like an SUV. Those curved rear windows at 45 degree or shallower angles are able to reflect the summer sun (and there's a lot of it in Texas in the summer), mostly when going southbound or toward the sun. Sure, it's not quite as bright as looking directly into the sun, but it's still a real pain.
Even someone leaving his brights on at night isn't that bad, because he's coming from the other direction and will pass you very soon, while you could be stuck behind that beige shitbox for miles, and there's usually another right in front of it even if you pass.
Well, that and they never finished the ring tunnel. Really, they barely started them. The LHC, on the other hand, re-used an existing tunnel.
And a shrimp on the barbie?
I'm going to guess that's some of the RWTS code, probably 13-sector. That A2 GCR code nibblizing was nuts. (Even with linefeeds.)
Sometime last decade I got a Catweasel board and hacked up some code to read Apple II (both 13 and 16 sector) and C64 tracks. But at least it had a real address mark nibble that wasn't used for anything else. The C64 used regular nibbles for sector headers, so if you got out of sync during the decode you could get really lost.
I imaged a LOT of A2 discs just because I had them and that Catweasel.
That 13-sector code doesn't look much less evil in C:
// decode 13-sector nibbles
void post_nibble_13(void) {
. int i = 0;
. for (int j=0; j < 51; j++) {
. . buf[i++] = (secbuf[204 - j] << 3) | (secbuf[103 + j] >> 2);
. . buf[i++] = (secbuf[255 - j] << 3) | (secbuf[52 + j] >> 2);
. . buf[i++] = (secbuf[306 - j] << 3) | (secbuf[1 + j] >> 2);
. . buf[i++] = (secbuf[357 - j] << 3) | ((secbuf[103 + j] & 0x02) << 1 )
. . . | (secbuf[52 + j] & 0x02) | ((secbuf[1 + j] & 0x02) >> 1 );
. . buf[i++] = (secbuf[408 - j] << 3) | ((secbuf[103 + j] & 0x01) << 2 )
. . . | ((secbuf[52 + j] & 0x01) << 1 ) (secbuf[1 + j] & 0x01);
. }
. buf[255] = (secbuf[409] << 3) | (secbuf[0] & 0x07);
}
The 16-sector code looks much nicer:
// decode 16-sector nibbles
void post_nibble_16(void) {
. int j=0;
. int k=0;
. for (int i=0; i < 256; i++) {
. . int n = secbuf[j++] >> k;
. . buf[i] = (secbuf[i+86] << 2) | ((n << 1) & 2) | ((n > 1) & 1);
. . if (j > 85) { j=0; k+=2; }
} }
(That was a real pain to format for /.)
Submitter must have pirated the previous submission!