Pshhh, FORTH was doing the two-stacks thing back in the '80s. It just happened to be ahead of the rest of the world, since there were very few microprocessors that could support it efficiently. The main one was the 6809, which had two explicit stack pointers, and the U stack was almost as easy to use as the regular S stack. The FORTH inner loop was two instructions on the 6809, compared to 20 or so for the Z-80.
If they did their eyes and ears would bleed. Why do people make them?
Because their eyes and ears bled so long ago they can't tell the difference anymore. Still, I think vertical video is even more hideous, and they are likely to do that too.
Blind Spots, part III: We're effectively blind for the fraction of a second while our eyes move from one focus point to another.
My previous vehicle from 1999 finally gave up the ghost, and I had to get something relatively recent (specifically 2013). The backup camera annoys me specifically because it is at a significantly different focus distance than looking in the mirrors, not to mention the poor quality of an LCD image vs direct vision. But we had to have it because every year, a handful of idiots let their kids run around unsupervised, and then ran over them when backing up in the driveway.
We had one when I was kid back in the '70s. (It was actually a "Campmobile" imported from Germany by a previous owner. I never failed to be amused by the start button saying "FAHRT".) The thing could never go faster than 55MPH except downhill, (this was before the "double-nickel" national speed limit) so yes, it would indeed be difficult to tailgate in one of those things.
I think in California they care more about the lighter having a sticker announcing a possible cancer risk from sticking your dick in the cigarette lighter.
I'm now in a position where I may have to upgrade my daily driver (a Late-2011 17" model) from 10.9.
I got one of those cheap Chinese logic analyzers a few weeks ago. I don't want to run Saleae's software out of principle (even assuming they have a Mac version), since there is a FOSS replacement, but the FOSS replacement uses Qt, which doesn't want to support earlier than 10.10. It crashes shortly after launch. And I can't find any pre-compiled versions other than "latest", because of course there's no reason to keep around those stinky older versions! (raaaaaaaaage!)
The main reason I upgraded to 10.9 was because OpenGL got fixed such that a badly-behaving program couldn't crash the GPU. (that was Minecraft 1.6) And there are other OpenGL enhancements in 10.11 that I might want to have for a different game. So now I need to decide whether to go with 10.10 or 10.11. Also, it doesn't help that the 10.10 installer contains a since-expired certificate (which causes the install to fail with a misleading error), so you have to set your clock to 2014 before you install.
I had a 1999 Isuzu Trooper (so this is definitely not a new problem), and there was a time it got left outside for a few months in a semi-industrial area due to long-term repair work. Rodents ate the insulation to the wiring for the 4WD transfer case. Not only did it stop working, after a couple more years, it started kicking in when it shouldn't. (It was a push-button 4WD, but it was not designed to be used at highway speeds.) I finally took it in to a transmission repair place. Total bill? $250 (mostly labor) to replace the wires, and it worked again, except for one indicator light that was redundant anyhow because it was always on in 4WD mode.
Really, biodegradable insulation on copper wire in an automotive context is a phenomenally stupid idea. Not only is there the safety risk of damaged wire harnesses, but nobody in their right mind will throw that wire into a landfill because the copper is simply too valuable.
As for capsaicin, there is still a risk of selecting for rodents that love spicy food.
My favorite hack still has to be the original Xbox. It needed only a few wires for a chip to bypass its internal boot ROM, all conveniently arranged in an unpopulated header on the board. MS tried to remove it on later versions, but people made adapters that let you add wires to connect the missing signals... or just searched around for an older model. And it was easily removed and installed in a different console. I even once found a dead Xbox with a chip, that I was able to install in another unit.
Unlike the Dreamcast, the Xbox had a built-in Ethernet and hard disk (expandable to 500GB, thanks to LBA-48 patches, more if you have one of the last really big ATA drives or a SATA adapter) so you could jukebox it, and not have to deal with a stack of burned discs. (great for parties!) This is a good thing, because optical drives tend to go bad after a few years of use.
Basically, they took big steps so they could meet JFK's challenge. For example, the first launch of Saturn V was a "full stack" launch, with both the second and third stages. That alone saved them two or three launches over the "right" way to do it.
There has actually only been one full launch failure - CRS-7. (That one was actually so benign a LES wouldn't have had any problem riding it out.)
The payload could even have aborted and gone down on parachute (minus the "trunk" with the docking adapter, I'm sure), except they never expected such a situation, so they didn't program the flight control software to do that.
I'm trying to fathom the logic that ascribes "4 full failure launches" to F9 while deeming Delta IV Heavy's first flight as a success, but to no avail.
The only logic I can think of is "ULA shill". SpaceX hatebois are even more annoying than Apple hatebois.
All I found were for the 360 Kinect, but China tends to fill whatever need they see, so if it is at all possible for them to find the plug, they will be making them soon.
There's a difference between "must be linguistically flawless", and "has a whole fucking lot of flaws", and that web site demonstrates the second quite well. I don't want a conlang that makes me feel like I'm talking with a sore throat or cotton in my mouth, nor one that makes me say "wait, what?"
"show us something better."
When "better" is "use an existing real language instead", maybe your conlang isn't such a good idea. Hence the xkcd link.
Good. So how do you "duplicate" the other end of a transaction to a bank for your testing? This isn't supposed to be a trick question; you have dummy accounts set up specifically for testing purposes, and/or a simulator. I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't have the first, and had an insufficient in-house written version of the second.
Although Slashdot will often elide them as well, if you use the HTML entities, you at least avoid the chance of a broken UTF-8 vs Latin-1 encoding: á = á (don't forget the trailing semicolon)
"It is a curious fact, and one to which no-one knows quite how much importance to attach, that something like 85 percent of all known worlds in the Galaxy, be they primitive or highly advanced, have invented a drink called jynnan tonyx, or gee-N'N-T'N-ix, or jinond-o-nicks, or any one of a thousand variations on this phonetic theme.
The drinks themselves are not the same, and vary between the Sivolvian ‘chinanto/mnigs’ which is ordinary water served just above room temperature, and the Gagrakackan 'tzjin-anthony-ks’ which kills cows at a hundred paces; and in fact the only one common factor between all of them, beyond the fact that their names sound the same, is that they were all invented and named before the worlds concerned made contact with any other worlds." - Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
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Pshhh, FORTH was doing the two-stacks thing back in the '80s. It just happened to be ahead of the rest of the world, since there were very few microprocessors that could support it efficiently. The main one was the 6809, which had two explicit stack pointers, and the U stack was almost as easy to use as the regular S stack. The FORTH inner loop was two instructions on the 6809, compared to 20 or so for the Z-80.
I won't be truly impressed until they have a new casino game in Las Vegas called "Whitejack".
If they did their eyes and ears would bleed. Why do people make them?
Because their eyes and ears bled so long ago they can't tell the difference anymore. Still, I think vertical video is even more hideous, and they are likely to do that too.
Blind Spots, part III: We're effectively blind for the fraction of a second while our eyes move from one focus point to another.
My previous vehicle from 1999 finally gave up the ghost, and I had to get something relatively recent (specifically 2013). The backup camera annoys me specifically because it is at a significantly different focus distance than looking in the mirrors, not to mention the poor quality of an LCD image vs direct vision. But we had to have it because every year, a handful of idiots let their kids run around unsupervised, and then ran over them when backing up in the driveway.
You never tailgated in those things.
We had one when I was kid back in the '70s. (It was actually a "Campmobile" imported from Germany by a previous owner. I never failed to be amused by the start button saying "FAHRT".) The thing could never go faster than 55MPH except downhill, (this was before the "double-nickel" national speed limit) so yes, it would indeed be difficult to tailgate in one of those things.
I'm sure we'll see where they actually came from on the next series of Dr. Who. Maybe they could even write an entire story around the concept.
If you look in the trunks, you'll find Jimmy Hoffa in one.
Aha! Caught you! Everyone knows it's called the "boot" over there!
I think in California they care more about the lighter having a sticker announcing a possible cancer risk from sticking your dick in the cigarette lighter.
I'm now in a position where I may have to upgrade my daily driver (a Late-2011 17" model) from 10.9.
I got one of those cheap Chinese logic analyzers a few weeks ago. I don't want to run Saleae's software out of principle (even assuming they have a Mac version), since there is a FOSS replacement, but the FOSS replacement uses Qt, which doesn't want to support earlier than 10.10. It crashes shortly after launch. And I can't find any pre-compiled versions other than "latest", because of course there's no reason to keep around those stinky older versions! (raaaaaaaaage!)
The main reason I upgraded to 10.9 was because OpenGL got fixed such that a badly-behaving program couldn't crash the GPU. (that was Minecraft 1.6) And there are other OpenGL enhancements in 10.11 that I might want to have for a different game. So now I need to decide whether to go with 10.10 or 10.11. Also, it doesn't help that the 10.10 installer contains a since-expired certificate (which causes the install to fail with a misleading error), so you have to set your clock to 2014 before you install.
Shhhhh... don't tell DJB! Or Poettering!
I had a 1999 Isuzu Trooper (so this is definitely not a new problem), and there was a time it got left outside for a few months in a semi-industrial area due to long-term repair work. Rodents ate the insulation to the wiring for the 4WD transfer case. Not only did it stop working, after a couple more years, it started kicking in when it shouldn't. (It was a push-button 4WD, but it was not designed to be used at highway speeds.) I finally took it in to a transmission repair place. Total bill? $250 (mostly labor) to replace the wires, and it worked again, except for one indicator light that was redundant anyhow because it was always on in 4WD mode.
Really, biodegradable insulation on copper wire in an automotive context is a phenomenally stupid idea. Not only is there the safety risk of damaged wire harnesses, but nobody in their right mind will throw that wire into a landfill because the copper is simply too valuable.
As for capsaicin, there is still a risk of selecting for rodents that love spicy food.
I've also heard that it's cheaper than proper insulation. But yeah, it's dumb, nobody will throw away that copper as trash, it's simply too valuable.
My favorite hack still has to be the original Xbox. It needed only a few wires for a chip to bypass its internal boot ROM, all conveniently arranged in an unpopulated header on the board. MS tried to remove it on later versions, but people made adapters that let you add wires to connect the missing signals... or just searched around for an older model. And it was easily removed and installed in a different console. I even once found a dead Xbox with a chip, that I was able to install in another unit.
Unlike the Dreamcast, the Xbox had a built-in Ethernet and hard disk (expandable to 500GB, thanks to LBA-48 patches, more if you have one of the last really big ATA drives or a SATA adapter) so you could jukebox it, and not have to deal with a stack of burned discs. (great for parties!) This is a good thing, because optical drives tend to go bad after a few years of use.
I read this a few weeks ago after being linked to it from somewhere: https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4206/contents.htm
Basically, they took big steps so they could meet JFK's challenge. For example, the first launch of Saturn V was a "full stack" launch, with both the second and third stages. That alone saved them two or three launches over the "right" way to do it.
There has actually only been one full launch failure - CRS-7. (That one was actually so benign a LES wouldn't have had any problem riding it out.)
The payload could even have aborted and gone down on parachute (minus the "trunk" with the docking adapter, I'm sure), except they never expected such a situation, so they didn't program the flight control software to do that.
I'm trying to fathom the logic that ascribes "4 full failure launches" to F9 while deeming Delta IV Heavy's first flight as a success, but to no avail.
The only logic I can think of is "ULA shill". SpaceX hatebois are even more annoying than Apple hatebois.
So they... re-released the Kraken?
Also, Interstate Commerce Clause.
All I found were for the 360 Kinect, but China tends to fill whatever need they see, so if it is at all possible for them to find the plug, they will be making them soon.
There's a difference between "must be linguistically flawless", and "has a whole fucking lot of flaws", and that web site demonstrates the second quite well. I don't want a conlang that makes me feel like I'm talking with a sore throat or cotton in my mouth, nor one that makes me say "wait, what?"
"show us something better."
When "better" is "use an existing real language instead", maybe your conlang isn't such a good idea. Hence the xkcd link.
Good. So how do you "duplicate" the other end of a transaction to a bank for your testing? This isn't supposed to be a trick question; you have dummy accounts set up specifically for testing purposes, and/or a simulator. I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't have the first, and had an insufficient in-house written version of the second.
Although Slashdot will often elide them as well, if you use the HTML entities, you at least avoid the chance of a broken UTF-8 vs Latin-1 encoding: á = á (don't forget the trailing semicolon)
"It is a curious fact, and one to which no-one knows quite how much importance to attach, that something like 85 percent of all known worlds in the Galaxy, be they primitive or highly advanced, have invented a drink called jynnan tonyx, or gee-N'N-T'N-ix, or jinond-o-nicks, or any one of a thousand variations on this phonetic theme. The drinks themselves are not the same, and vary between the Sivolvian ‘chinanto/mnigs’ which is ordinary water served just above room temperature, and the Gagrakackan 'tzjin-anthony-ks’ which kills cows at a hundred paces; and in fact the only one common factor between all of them, beyond the fact that their names sound the same, is that they were all invented and named before the worlds concerned made contact with any other worlds." - Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Learn not to speak Esperanto
tl;dr: Esperanto is badly designed, with a lot of irregularity and Eastern European-isms built into it, especially the choice of phonemes.
Also this: https://xkcd.com/927/
Protip: when you have more than one tab open to Slashdot, be sure you have the right one before posting.
Learn not to speak Esperanto
tl;dr: Esperanto is badly designed, with a lot of irregularity and Eastern European-isms built into it, especially the choice of phonemes.