Technically it wasn't a game, but it ran on a Vectrex. It was a coin-operated "color choices reveal your personality" kiosk, which amazingly was 32K, most of it tl;dr ASCII text displayed in raster mode.
At least this one had copied them from the original media. There are collectors with games on actual physical EPROMs who refuse to have them dumped at all. Bit rot is a thing, eventually after enough time the charge will leak away and the chip will erase itself bit by bit. It just takes longer without being exposed to light. CD-Rs also have similar degradation with time. They would rather sleep on their dragons hoard while the actual game vanishes and becomes almost worthless, than take the chance that someone else having a soft copy of it might cause more than a penny of its value to vanish.
And I say this as someone who has found at least one game that nobody else has ever found, and I dumped and shared that sucker right away.
I'm glad someone spotted it. Still sad that we can't send 240VAC back through the connection to the caller, even if it only destroys their dialer bots.
Exactly. This is about the web bugs and other things from Facebook that end up in other web pages, little things like "Share on Facebook" buttons. You see that little "f" icon? If it's served from facebook.com, your browser had to talk to them to get it.
The worst controller ever was the Atari 5200 controller. It was the worst except in terms of the number of patents it provided for Atari. It was so bad in so many ways: bad ergonomics (side fire buttons that you have to push with your thumb), naked tinned contacts on the flex circuits (they oxidize like crazy), non-centering analog stick, the flex circuit is damaged if you don't open the controller properly, and a 15-wire cable which is 3x the number of wires that can break. Also I have encountered 5200 consoles where the CMOS multiplexer chips that talk to the controllers had been zapped and needed replacement.
In a "real ship", there might not be gravity, but there would still be inertia. If you rolled a real ship, you would feel your body rotate. This is why flight simulators (the real ones used by pilots for training) have hydraulic systems to tilt the cabin. It doesn't have to be exact, it's easy to fool the body as to the degree of the force, but it's a lot different from just sitting in a chair in front of a desk.
There was no spam calling because in the US there was (effectively) only one phone company, you had to get them to hook you up with an actual wire, and when they had caller-ID and you had a PBX or whatever that could set it, they didn't tolerate bullshit with changing that number to fool people. Now we've gone so far into deregulation that you can use an internet connection to connect with a bottom-feeder telco that will hook you up without giving even a nano-fuck.
I'm early GenX and I prefer e-mail, but I really don't like chat systems. It's too easy for people to bother you for stuff that doesn't really need an immediate reply. Being able to throw out text messages at a whim discourages taking a moment to think things through first.
Um, you do realize that many spammers literally generate a random number to call you from? It doesn't help to block specific numbers when you don't get calls from specific numbers. And not all "unidentified" calls are spammers, so you shouldn't want to block them outright.
Sure, we have laws, we just can't enforce them. When the phone spammers use shady VoIP services to get in, they can fake any number they want, and there is no way to trace it beyond whoever they routed their calls through. There's no law against routing the spam calls, so you can't do much to get the middlemen to cooperate to find out who is originating the calls.
All I have of SC is a cross-promo game code that I ended up with as a promo prize during a livestream for a different game. One which has finally declared "release" after four and a half years of monthly, playable, releases, and almost two years since persistence, Shroud of the Avatar. Yes, it can actually happen. And they will continue with monthly development as long as they can.
Meanwhile, is there even a properly playable version of SC yet, or is it still just a bunch of tech demo puzzle pieces?
Correlation is not causation. It's actually a third-world thing more than a religious thing. With certain exceptions (like Mormons), the western world has had low or negative population growth because of societal change, not religion. Until children stop becoming an asset and start becoming a hindrance to lifestyle, humans will reproduce more. On the other hand, there might be some indirect causation in that Muslims tend to live in the third world and hold back progress, keeping them in charge of third-world shitholes, which keeps the birth rate up.
I recently got a used 2013 T&C van, and had some CANBUS electrical problems with it. First, the instrument cluster died last fall, then last month I had problems with a wire and/or connector that went bad. Hopefully it's really truly fixed this time.
The wipers turning on is apparently one of the symptoms of a CANBUS failure in Chrysler. When information from the bus disappears, it seems that other parts of the system make assumptions about the input state. One of those assumptions is that the wiper switch is set to ON, and another is that the headlights are set to ON. The result of this was that in the first incident when the instrument cluster died, the wipers turned on (I had to pull the fuse) and other dashboard things dimmed as though the headlights were turned on. At least the vehicle could still be driven to the dealer, though without turn signals, because they go through the instrument cluster. Not helping the problem was that some brillant middle manager had decided that the dashboard should be a smooth one-piece unit, so it requires a lot of labor, including removing the steering wheel, to get access to the area behind it.
So, the Skylab trick? I'm not sure that it would work, because a GEO sat has to spin on its axis relative to the sun once a day to face the Earth at all times. Then again, maybe that's why it has the problem on a daily cycle. When that particular side is facing the sun, it warms up just enough to keep that specific part from working right. Then it turns away (the shadow of the Earth is mostly irrelevant to high-orbit satellites) and gets a chance to cool off. "Temperature" in space (and on the Moon) is mostly "sunlight makes you very hot, dark makes you very cold". So maybe a sunshade over the right part of the sat could do the trick. It could probably even be stuck on with magnets.
Of course the real problem is that there really is no way to fix it. Orbital mechanics makes it a pain in the ass to get to a specific point in space, and we don't have the kind of robotic gear that would be needed to do repairs remotely once we got it there, even without the quarter second or so comms lag. With cheaper launches, it may become less of an effort to just put a new one up, but GEO adds concerns about keeping space junk under control.
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I got me a block in the 10.x.x.x space, shhhh, don't tell anyone else about it!
I hear that the name "Object File System" isn't being used. Maybe they could try that.
Technically it wasn't a game, but it ran on a Vectrex. It was a coin-operated "color choices reveal your personality" kiosk, which amazingly was 32K, most of it tl;dr ASCII text displayed in raster mode.
At least this one had copied them from the original media. There are collectors with games on actual physical EPROMs who refuse to have them dumped at all. Bit rot is a thing, eventually after enough time the charge will leak away and the chip will erase itself bit by bit. It just takes longer without being exposed to light. CD-Rs also have similar degradation with time. They would rather sleep on their dragons hoard while the actual game vanishes and becomes almost worthless, than take the chance that someone else having a soft copy of it might cause more than a penny of its value to vanish.
And I say this as someone who has found at least one game that nobody else has ever found, and I dumped and shared that sucker right away.
I'm glad someone spotted it. Still sad that we can't send 240VAC back through the connection to the caller, even if it only destroys their dialer bots.
Virgin Galactic is ahead on that race, they've already killed a pilot. (Though technically it was caused by his own mistake.)
Exactly. This is about the web bugs and other things from Facebook that end up in other web pages, little things like "Share on Facebook" buttons. You see that little "f" icon? If it's served from facebook.com, your browser had to talk to them to get it.
That's almost four Minecrafts worth!
With code search by Bing!
All they need now is to acquire stackexchange, and they will control the entire means of code production.
Sorry, but private property owners do very much trump your right to carry.
That's nice. But how does that apply to Uber? Did they own the vehicle?
The worst controller ever was the Atari 5200 controller. It was the worst except in terms of the number of patents it provided for Atari. It was so bad in so many ways: bad ergonomics (side fire buttons that you have to push with your thumb), naked tinned contacts on the flex circuits (they oxidize like crazy), non-centering analog stick, the flex circuit is damaged if you don't open the controller properly, and a 15-wire cable which is 3x the number of wires that can break. Also I have encountered 5200 consoles where the CMOS multiplexer chips that talk to the controllers had been zapped and needed replacement.
So how much for just an injection-molded case with wood-grain print on it that a Raspberry Pi can fit in?
In a "real ship", there might not be gravity, but there would still be inertia. If you rolled a real ship, you would feel your body rotate. This is why flight simulators (the real ones used by pilots for training) have hydraulic systems to tilt the cabin. It doesn't have to be exact, it's easy to fool the body as to the degree of the force, but it's a lot different from just sitting in a chair in front of a desk.
16" projection screen
Is that 16 inches or 16 feet?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pyh1Va_mYWI&t=50
There was no spam calling because in the US there was (effectively) only one phone company, you had to get them to hook you up with an actual wire, and when they had caller-ID and you had a PBX or whatever that could set it, they didn't tolerate bullshit with changing that number to fool people. Now we've gone so far into deregulation that you can use an internet connection to connect with a bottom-feeder telco that will hook you up without giving even a nano-fuck.
I'm early GenX and I prefer e-mail, but I really don't like chat systems. It's too easy for people to bother you for stuff that doesn't really need an immediate reply. Being able to throw out text messages at a whim discourages taking a moment to think things through first.
Um, you do realize that many spammers literally generate a random number to call you from? It doesn't help to block specific numbers when you don't get calls from specific numbers. And not all "unidentified" calls are spammers, so you shouldn't want to block them outright.
Sure, we have laws, we just can't enforce them. When the phone spammers use shady VoIP services to get in, they can fake any number they want, and there is no way to trace it beyond whoever they routed their calls through. There's no law against routing the spam calls, so you can't do much to get the middlemen to cooperate to find out who is originating the calls.
All I have of SC is a cross-promo game code that I ended up with as a promo prize during a livestream for a different game. One which has finally declared "release" after four and a half years of monthly, playable, releases, and almost two years since persistence, Shroud of the Avatar. Yes, it can actually happen. And they will continue with monthly development as long as they can.
Meanwhile, is there even a properly playable version of SC yet, or is it still just a bunch of tech demo puzzle pieces?
Big Bang Theory did it better. (S11E09)
Correlation is not causation. It's actually a third-world thing more than a religious thing. With certain exceptions (like Mormons), the western world has had low or negative population growth because of societal change, not religion. Until children stop becoming an asset and start becoming a hindrance to lifestyle, humans will reproduce more. On the other hand, there might be some indirect causation in that Muslims tend to live in the third world and hold back progress, keeping them in charge of third-world shitholes, which keeps the birth rate up.
I recently got a used 2013 T&C van, and had some CANBUS electrical problems with it. First, the instrument cluster died last fall, then last month I had problems with a wire and/or connector that went bad. Hopefully it's really truly fixed this time.
The wipers turning on is apparently one of the symptoms of a CANBUS failure in Chrysler. When information from the bus disappears, it seems that other parts of the system make assumptions about the input state. One of those assumptions is that the wiper switch is set to ON, and another is that the headlights are set to ON. The result of this was that in the first incident when the instrument cluster died, the wipers turned on (I had to pull the fuse) and other dashboard things dimmed as though the headlights were turned on. At least the vehicle could still be driven to the dealer, though without turn signals, because they go through the instrument cluster. Not helping the problem was that some brillant middle manager had decided that the dashboard should be a smooth one-piece unit, so it requires a lot of labor, including removing the steering wheel, to get access to the area behind it.
So, the Skylab trick? I'm not sure that it would work, because a GEO sat has to spin on its axis relative to the sun once a day to face the Earth at all times. Then again, maybe that's why it has the problem on a daily cycle. When that particular side is facing the sun, it warms up just enough to keep that specific part from working right. Then it turns away (the shadow of the Earth is mostly irrelevant to high-orbit satellites) and gets a chance to cool off. "Temperature" in space (and on the Moon) is mostly "sunlight makes you very hot, dark makes you very cold". So maybe a sunshade over the right part of the sat could do the trick. It could probably even be stuck on with magnets.
Of course the real problem is that there really is no way to fix it. Orbital mechanics makes it a pain in the ass to get to a specific point in space, and we don't have the kind of robotic gear that would be needed to do repairs remotely once we got it there, even without the quarter second or so comms lag. With cheaper launches, it may become less of an effort to just put a new one up, but GEO adds concerns about keeping space junk under control.
I await the Falcon 9 painted with the Geek Squad logo.