It's not just the kiddies who want to go run around griefing, it's the gold farmers who want to ruin your game's economy for profit, and their bots overcamping the stuff you need to kill.
Atmospheric burn-up is caused as you lose orbital velocity when you contact the atmosphere. As balloons and their payloads were never in orbit in the first place, there is no worry about anything burning up.
What are you even talking about? The fact that this is newly discovered has no bearing on the climate change debate because this effect would have been going on since the earth developed its own magnetic field. it is not some new effect that never happened before, its an effect [we] hadn't noticed before.
It is not that it is an effect we hadn't noticed before, it is that it is an effect that we haven't noticed before so it isn't in the models that the global warming crowd love to use to point out confirming the existence of global warming. It's not a new variable in climate change, but it is a new variable in existing climate change models, which previously did not take it into account. And that's the whole problem with relying on computer model simulations as though they were undeniable fact.
BS: When Nakayama was pushed out and when I was pushed out, I think what took place was, Mr. [Isao] Okawa, who then became the chairman of the company -- he was an investment banker from CSK [Holdings Corporation].... I don't believe he was committed to the hardware. He just believed it should be a software company. [. ..] Yeah, the company didn't put the money into it. The company basically abandoned the system.
So it was because the company hired someone who basically didn't care about the (hardware) product. That sounds epic on the same level of Apple hiring John Sculley... yeah, a soft-drinks guy is really going to understand how to sell computers.
Not only that, but the guy actually believed they could distribute games through the internet... in a day when modems were still king? And then they released the Ethernet module in such low quantities the US, just as broadband was on the rise.
I signed up for the extra run of BBAs, but nothing ever came of that. (and that company's domain is now owned by squatters) I only ended up with one because of a lucky Buy It Now on ebay.
I don't know why you think that being that close to the transmitter should be a good thing. When you're less than about 20 miles away, reflections can cause strong multipath interference ("ghosting" in analog television), which makes the digital signal harder to receive. If your rotate your antenna to point in the right direction, you can increase the strength of the main signal, or you can use an attenuator to reduce the strength of the reflections. But mostly, if you don't think you have to rotate your antenna when you're that close to the transmitter, you're very wrong.
(And I know you're talking about ATSC, because Cox isn't in any country that uses DVB. So what works in the UK is irrelevant here.)
So in other words, we'll end up with Marvin the Paranoid Android?
"Don't pretend you want to talk to me, I know you hate me."
"No I don't."
"Yes, you do, everybody does. It's part of the shape of the Universe.
I only have to talk to somebody, and they begin to hate me. Even robots
hate me. If you just ignore me, I expect I shall probably go away."
He jacked himself up to his feet and stood resolutely facing the opposite
direction.
"That ship hated me, " he said dejectedly, indicating the police craft.
"That ship?" said Ford in sudden excitement. "What happened to it?
Do you know?"
"It hated me because I talked to it."
"You TALKED to it?" exclaimed Ford. "What do you mean you talked to it?"
"Simple. I got very bored and depressed, so I went and plugged myself
into it's external computer feed. I talked to the computer at great length,
and explained my view of the universe to it, " said Marvin.
"And what happened? " pressed Ford.
"It committed suicide, " said Marvin, and stalked off back to the
Heart of Gold.
Actually, the keypads from "Basic Programming" would have worked too. They were electrically identical, but the VTP looked much, much cooler. Also, there was a big kiddie button pad for the Sesame Street 2600 games, but you would have been laughed right out of your neighborhood if seen using that.
I thought the VTP was only a pack-in with Star Raiders 2600 anyhow. How could you have gotten the game without it, other than by buying it used?
Samir: No one in this country can ever pronounce my name right. It's not that hard: Na-ghee-na-na-jar. Nagheenanajar.
Michael Bolton: Yeah, well, at least your name isn't Michael Bolton.
Samir: You know, there's nothing wrong with that name.
Michael Bolton: There *was* nothing wrong with it... until I was about twelve years old and that no-talent ass clown became famous and started winning Grammys.
Samir: Hmm... well, why don't you just go by Mike instead of Michael?
Michael Bolton: No way! Why should I change? He's the one who sucks.
After all, Commodore licensed it from Microsoft. That means that they either need to license it from (what's left of) Commodore, or Microsoft, or probably both since Commodore probably have their own I/O code in there. That's a better reason to pull it than "being an interpreter".
It shouldn't be too hard to at least zero out the parts of the ROM that correspond to the BASIC interpreter, and only include 6502-code apps with it. Yes, they will probably have to hack a loader into every game to make up for the C64's lack of autoboot. But when there's no BASIC interpreter in there at all, there's no BASIC interpreter to break in to.
The "typical" cable is priced for suckers like you who don't realize that a digital signal doesn't need "high quality". You don't get ringing or interference artifacts in your picture with a digital signal, it either works or it doesn't. You don't buy Monster or Denon brand Cat-5E network cables too, do you?
The PS1 came with composite connections out of the box and the original version of the machine used actual composite, and S-video connectors on the machine itself
I've got to call you on this. The PS1 never had an S-video connector. What the original PS1 did have, however, was some crazy layout of composite outputs along with a 1/8" jack for the RF modulator power, designed so that one mutant plug could hook into all those at the same time. They also used this on some camcorders, I think. For S-video, you always had to use the multi-AV output.
"Reverse a linked list" is an even better test. If they don't understand pointers and you're trying to hire someone for C or C++ programming, you don't want them. At a former job it was stunning how many recent Computer Science graduates couldn't do that.
Basically, the best test is stuff that you would expect a typical CS student to know by the end of their 2nd year.
I wouldn't simply draw a line. You need a current limiting resistor in there, too. (I know what happens when you put 5VDC 1A through a typical LED for even a moment, and it's a good thing I wear glasses so it didn't hit me in the eye.)
"Mechanics" is plural, and yet you want to use "it" as a pronoun for a plural word? Grammar really has gone to crap. (Also, how operating systems work, another case of mis-matched plurality.)
Is the PC-to-360 cross-platform play only through Live, or are there non-Live examples? Basically, the 360 is part of a network that happens to include a PC option. If the PC uses Live, it wouldn't be able to work with the PS3, and presumably if it doesn't, it wouldn't be able to work with the 360.
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Hooray for the clash of '70s memes with 2k memes!
Now to figure out a way to mix 710.77345 with Iraq.
It's not just the kiddies who want to go run around griefing, it's the gold farmers who want to ruin your game's economy for profit, and their bots overcamping the stuff you need to kill.
It's only free if you don't count the cost of lost productivity when the office internet breaks.
Microsoft already has a lot of things relying on ARM - XBox for one
BUH? Original Xbox used an x86 Celeron variant, Xbox 360 uses a 3-core PowerPC variant.
Wow. Man-eating chocobos. (Well, not strictly man-eating, since there weren't humans around then. But you know what I mean.)
Atmospheric burn-up is caused as you lose orbital velocity when you contact the atmosphere. As balloons and their payloads were never in orbit in the first place, there is no worry about anything burning up.
It is not that it is an effect we hadn't noticed before, it is that it is an effect that we haven't noticed before so it isn't in the models that the global warming crowd love to use to point out confirming the existence of global warming. It's not a new variable in climate change, but it is a new variable in existing climate change models, which previously did not take it into account. And that's the whole problem with relying on computer model simulations as though they were undeniable fact.
So it was because the company hired someone who basically didn't care about the (hardware) product. That sounds epic on the same level of Apple hiring John Sculley... yeah, a soft-drinks guy is really going to understand how to sell computers.
Not only that, but the guy actually believed they could distribute games through the internet... in a day when modems were still king? And then they released the Ethernet module in such low quantities the US, just as broadband was on the rise.
I signed up for the extra run of BBAs, but nothing ever came of that. (and that company's domain is now owned by squatters) I only ended up with one because of a lucky Buy It Now on ebay.
I don't know why you think that being that close to the transmitter should be a good thing. When you're less than about 20 miles away, reflections can cause strong multipath interference ("ghosting" in analog television), which makes the digital signal harder to receive. If your rotate your antenna to point in the right direction, you can increase the strength of the main signal, or you can use an attenuator to reduce the strength of the reflections. But mostly, if you don't think you have to rotate your antenna when you're that close to the transmitter, you're very wrong.
(And I know you're talking about ATSC, because Cox isn't in any country that uses DVB. So what works in the UK is irrelevant here.)
So in other words, we'll end up with Marvin the Paranoid Android?
Actually, the keypads from "Basic Programming" would have worked too. They were electrically identical, but the VTP looked much, much cooler. Also, there was a big kiddie button pad for the Sesame Street 2600 games, but you would have been laughed right out of your neighborhood if seen using that.
I thought the VTP was only a pack-in with Star Raiders 2600 anyhow. How could you have gotten the game without it, other than by buying it used?
Samir: No one in this country can ever pronounce my name right. It's not that hard: Na-ghee-na-na-jar. Nagheenanajar.
Michael Bolton: Yeah, well, at least your name isn't Michael Bolton.
Samir: You know, there's nothing wrong with that name.
Michael Bolton: There *was* nothing wrong with it... until I was about twelve years old and that no-talent ass clown became famous and started winning Grammys.
Samir: Hmm... well, why don't you just go by Mike instead of Michael?
Michael Bolton: No way! Why should I change? He's the one who sucks.
After all, Commodore licensed it from Microsoft. That means that they either need to license it from (what's left of) Commodore, or Microsoft, or probably both since Commodore probably have their own I/O code in there. That's a better reason to pull it than "being an interpreter".
It shouldn't be too hard to at least zero out the parts of the ROM that correspond to the BASIC interpreter, and only include 6502-code apps with it. Yes, they will probably have to hack a loader into every game to make up for the C64's lack of autoboot. But when there's no BASIC interpreter in there at all, there's no BASIC interpreter to break in to.
3/10, go study up on some Trollaxor posts
The "typical" cable is priced for suckers like you who don't realize that a digital signal doesn't need "high quality". You don't get ringing or interference artifacts in your picture with a digital signal, it either works or it doesn't. You don't buy Monster or Denon brand Cat-5E network cables too, do you?
The PS1 came with composite connections out of the box and the original version of the machine used actual composite, and S-video connectors on the machine itself
I've got to call you on this. The PS1 never had an S-video connector. What the original PS1 did have, however, was some crazy layout of composite outputs along with a 1/8" jack for the RF modulator power, designed so that one mutant plug could hook into all those at the same time. They also used this on some camcorders, I think. For S-video, you always had to use the multi-AV output.
"Reverse a linked list" is an even better test. If they don't understand pointers and you're trying to hire someone for C or C++ programming, you don't want them. At a former job it was stunning how many recent Computer Science graduates couldn't do that.
Basically, the best test is stuff that you would expect a typical CS student to know by the end of their 2nd year.
"morans"?
I wouldn't simply draw a line. You need a current limiting resistor in there, too. (I know what happens when you put 5VDC 1A through a typical LED for even a moment, and it's a good thing I wear glasses so it didn't hit me in the eye.)
...or little details like Code that actually works?
Isn't Beckham's first name "Bendit"?
So they outsourced it?
I don't know what you linked to, but it's so invisible that the link is broken. Hooray for previewing links.
"Mechanics" is plural, and yet you want to use "it" as a pronoun for a plural word? Grammar really has gone to crap. (Also, how operating systems work, another case of mis-matched plurality.)
Is the PC-to-360 cross-platform play only through Live, or are there non-Live examples? Basically, the 360 is part of a network that happens to include a PC option. If the PC uses Live, it wouldn't be able to work with the PS3, and presumably if it doesn't, it wouldn't be able to work with the 360.