SHL by 1 can be achieved by adding a number to itself. And adder is just a pile of XORs and ANDs. We would need a separate load const for INC and DEC. SHR I'm not so sure about. Damn! This chip is getting complex.
Intel happened. Its a shame really. The x86 architecture is all a bit of a mess. I don't think the 386 designers expected it to last until dual pipelined 1GHz chips.
Apparently there's a Spanish version. If I had
my own server or at least a lot of bandwidth, I'd
probably set up a UK version.
But anyway, I wasn't really complaining about
the US centicity of Slashdot so much as the fact
that the article it was linked to unfortunately
missed out on the vast amount of films that
other countries produce to to the extreme
levels of obscurity outside of wherever they
were produced.
England failed to have any worthwhile film industry for the whole of the 80's. We came up with Morons from Outer Space! I'm sure we probably managed a few films that were so non-influencial that they didn't get released over there. Which is a problem with this type of list. The most suitable films tend to get forgotten.
Thats a good point. Current analogue joysticks really suck. And the standard PC interface is terrible. I'm surprised the mouse-sticks that emulate a rodent never cought on.
An opto-mechanical system is a lot more accurate than the horrible variable resistor design. Maybe USB joysticks will improve over time.
Why can games only be succesful if they are picked up by the mainstream? Turn based strategy games have been around since the Eighties at least (I didn't have a computer before then so I can't comment on exactly how long they were around).
The thing is strategy games have always been for the niche market. It doesn't matter what the mainstream think about them, since there will always be someone interested. Development costs don't need to be huge. Graphics can be simple, sound need only be a few samples. The only difficulty is the AI, and getting a well balanced set of rules that don't allow you to use a strategy based on putting all your resources into one thing.
The arcade games details seem to be the same sort of design as a C64. A very efficient design for scrolling shooters and platformers, so it's surprising that the Amiga and ST disn't have a grphics mode similar to this.
The lynx was clearly a much more powerful console. At the time nobody knew exactly what the public wanted in terms of handheld consoles. It turned out that Nintendo got it right - affordable cost, some form of battery life, and Tetris. But it was a guessing game from both sides.
Okay, Jar-Jar I undertstand, but the great Gungan Race has Boss Nass in charge. How can you possibly come down on a character played by an actor with such flexibility and versatility as Brian Blessed?
I refer you to the recent RIP legislation as evidence of this. At least I can still encrypt things
Great! So we can decrypt anything, but aren't allowed to encrypt it in the first place. You can encrypt anything, but aren't allowed to decrypt it. Ah well, at least there's symmetry
I agree that it wouldn't last long. IT does use a number of the points that the MPAA made to protect it though.
However the point of the exercise could be interpreted as simply a means to make sure there was a list of sites that people who were not covered by US law would be able to use, and those who were in the US would not be able to see. (Since that would be breaking the law) My previous suggestion would have to be modified so that they would send written copies of the decryption key on request as long as they were sending to an overseas address.
You have captured the essence of where things went wrong for the DeCSS defendents, though.
There were a lot of points - Looking through the documents, it appears that the judge was under the impression that an encrypted file could not be copied.
Why even encrypt with a key? They could have xor'd the content against a 16bit key,
Which means that you could distribute a list of (overseas) mirrors with original comments (Not sure if a plain list could be copyrighted)
as long as you encrypt it, and make it clear that
decryption is not permitted except by people with
specific written permission from 2600.org or the EFF. Refuse to give written permission to anyone
Since any decent hacker would be able to crack it in a matter of seconds,
it would not really be a problem for us.
Since the sites would be overseas, they would not
be breaching the DMCA, so any claims that
decryption is legally neccesary would be on pretty shaky ground.
On the other hand, the lawyers would be in breach
of the DMCA if they did manage to break it.
Many people seem to believe that shopping online is a RIGHT by law. Its not...its a convience.
Well, thats true. I still don't feel that it should be totally biased to how the big corporations want it to be though. If there's something the customers don't like I think its perfectly reasonable to ask that they change it.
Also, its inconvenient if there's a choice of having to drive the 100 yards to the supermarket, and pay with cash or shopping online but telling them all they want to know about you. I think what people would like is an inbetween option of maximum possible privacy and convenience. Not too much to ask after all.
Last time I tried using their online store it insisted I use IE. At the time, it wasn't very easy to get hold of for Solaris (My only net access), and I certainly couldn't have installed it in my 10 Meg Quota.
Lets be honest - It was Unix coders who INVENTED bloat.
EMACS stood for Eight Megs and Constant swapping when Eight
Megs was a lot of memory (Now stands for Eighty Megs And....)
This does actually bring up a problem of what to
call it when Eighty megs is considered a tiny
amount of memory. Eats Memory and Churns Swapfiles
would be a good future proof version.
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But I think there's only cause for celebration when you guys cut down on allowing stupid patents on software, genes, etc anyway.
Although to be fair on software patents - this patent is useful, is not particularly obvious, does have worthwhle commercial applications, and is described in reasonable detail in the patent.
What is the lifetime of the proton and how do we understand it?
Ask! What is playing on the TV channel or network Lifetime?
Can we quantitatively understand quark and gluon confinement in quantum chromodynamics and the existence of a mass gap?
Ask! Where can I find the Holy Mass in the Catholic church?
Ask! What is the return policy of Gap.com?
Ask! Where can I find a Gap near me?
Ask! Where can I find resources from Britannica.com on gluon?
Ask! Where can I find analyst reports for Gap Inc?
Ask! Where can I buy clothing from Gap?
xclipboard is quite a good start. Although as far as I can tell from 20 seconds of playing with it, it only handles text, and it isn't integrated into applications the way a clipboard is. Need a key combo to automatically copy to clipboard without destroying exisiting contents.
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SHL by 1 can be achieved by adding a number to itself. And adder is just a pile of XORs and ANDs. We would need a separate load const for INC and DEC. SHR I'm not so sure about. Damn! This chip is getting complex.
How about LOAD, STORE, JUMP_IF_ZERO, JSR, NAND. (I think it would have to be stack based)
Replace AND, OR and NOT with NAND.
Whatever happened to RISC?
Intel happened. Its a shame really. The x86 architecture is all a bit of a mess. I don't think the 386 designers expected it to last until dual pipelined 1GHz chips.
Okay, its improved, but I still find most X desktops clunky and slow.
Firstly, it must be pointed out that MS Office data formats cannot be treated as "standards" under any reasonable definition of the word "standard."
Almost 100% of offices use it, and require it. Its a de facto standard, but still a standard.
8.1 Linux is PC exclusive"
Just a nitpick. Looking at the debunking, this should say Linux is x86 exclusive.
Apparently there's a Spanish version. If I had my own server or at least a lot of bandwidth, I'd probably set up a UK version.
But anyway, I wasn't really complaining about the US centicity of Slashdot so much as the fact that the article it was linked to unfortunately missed out on the vast amount of films that other countries produce to to the extreme levels of obscurity outside of wherever they were produced.
England failed to have any worthwhile film industry for the whole of the 80's. We came up with Morons from Outer Space! I'm sure we probably managed a few films that were so non-influencial that they didn't get released over there. Which is a problem with this type of list. The most suitable films tend to get forgotten.
I don't see why a planar graphics mode should make scrolling easier.
I always assumed the poor scrolling on the PC was because it had a fixed video memory pointer position.
Thats a good point. Current analogue joysticks really suck. And the standard PC interface is terrible. I'm surprised the mouse-sticks that emulate a rodent never cought on.
An opto-mechanical system is a lot more accurate than the horrible variable resistor design. Maybe USB joysticks will improve over time.
Why can games only be succesful if they are picked up by the mainstream? Turn based strategy games have been around since the Eighties at least (I didn't have a computer before then so I can't comment on exactly how long they were around).
The thing is strategy games have always been for the niche market. It doesn't matter what the mainstream think about them, since there will always be someone interested. Development costs don't need to be huge. Graphics can be simple, sound need only be a few samples. The only difficulty is the AI, and getting a well balanced set of rules that don't allow you to use a strategy based on putting all your resources into one thing.
True. USB could be a more consumer friendly option. Reasonably techy friendly too since it is possible to buy USB ethernet interfaces.
The arcade games details seem to be the same sort of design as a C64. A very efficient design for scrolling shooters and platformers, so it's surprising that the Amiga and ST disn't have a grphics mode similar to this.
The lynx was clearly a much more powerful console. At the time nobody knew exactly what the public wanted in terms of handheld consoles. It turned out that Nintendo got it right - affordable cost, some form of battery life, and Tetris. But it was a guessing game from both sides.
"Pathetic race"?
Okay, Jar-Jar I undertstand, but the great Gungan Race has Boss Nass in charge. How can you possibly come down on a character played by an actor with such flexibility and versatility as Brian Blessed?
I refer you to the recent RIP legislation as evidence of this. At least I can still encrypt things
Great! So we can decrypt anything, but aren't allowed to encrypt it in the first place. You can encrypt anything, but aren't allowed to decrypt it. Ah well, at least there's symmetry
It makes no difference whether or not the DMCA is a stupid law or not. DeCSS breaks the law, and that all I'm going to say.
Hope they change it. Far too many of the non-film parts of the SW franchise have had something of the something.
I agree that it wouldn't last long. IT does use a number of the points that the MPAA made to protect it though.
However the point of the exercise could be interpreted as simply a means to make sure there was a list of sites that people who were not covered by US law would be able to use, and those who were in the US would not be able to see. (Since that would be breaking the law) My previous suggestion would have to be modified so that they would send written copies of the decryption key on request as long as they were sending to an overseas address.
You have captured the essence of where things went wrong for the DeCSS defendents, though.
There were a lot of points - Looking through the documents, it appears that the judge was under the impression that an encrypted file could not be copied.
Why even encrypt with a key? They could have xor'd the content against a 16bit key,
Which means that you could distribute a list of (overseas) mirrors with original comments (Not sure if a plain list could be copyrighted) as long as you encrypt it, and make it clear that decryption is not permitted except by people with specific written permission from 2600.org or the EFF. Refuse to give written permission to anyone
Since any decent hacker would be able to crack it in a matter of seconds, it would not really be a problem for us.
Since the sites would be overseas, they would not be breaching the DMCA, so any claims that decryption is legally neccesary would be on pretty shaky ground. On the other hand, the lawyers would be in breach of the DMCA if they did manage to break it.
Many people seem to believe that shopping online is a RIGHT by law. Its not...its a convience.
Well, thats true. I still don't feel that it should be totally biased to how the big corporations want it to be though. If there's something the customers don't like I think its perfectly reasonable to ask that they change it.
Also, its inconvenient if there's a choice of having to drive the 100 yards to the supermarket, and pay with cash or shopping online but telling them all they want to know about you. I think what people would like is an inbetween option of maximum possible privacy and convenience. Not too much to ask after all.
Last time I tried using their online store it insisted I use IE. At the time, it wasn't very easy to get hold of for Solaris (My only net access), and I certainly couldn't have installed it in my 10 Meg Quota.
Lets be honest - It was Unix coders who INVENTED bloat. EMACS stood for Eight Megs and Constant swapping when Eight Megs was a lot of memory (Now stands for Eighty Megs And....)
This does actually bring up a problem of what to call it when Eighty megs is considered a tiny amount of memory. Eats Memory and Churns Swapfiles would be a good future proof version.
But I think there's only cause for celebration when you guys cut down on allowing stupid patents on software, genes, etc anyway.
Although to be fair on software patents - this patent is useful, is not particularly obvious, does have worthwhle commercial applications, and is described in reasonable detail in the patent.
What is the lifetime of the proton and how do we understand it?
Ask! What is playing on the TV channel or network Lifetime?
Can we quantitatively understand quark and gluon confinement in quantum chromodynamics and the existence of a mass gap?
Ask! Where can I find the Holy Mass in the Catholic church? Ask! What is the return policy of Gap.com?
Ask! Where can I find a Gap near me?
Ask! Where can I find resources from Britannica.com on gluon?
Ask! Where can I find analyst reports for Gap Inc?
Ask! Where can I buy clothing from Gap?
xclipboard is quite a good start. Although as far as I can tell from 20 seconds of playing with it, it only handles text, and it isn't integrated into applications the way a clipboard is. Need a key combo to automatically copy to clipboard without destroying exisiting contents.