My favorite issue of Byte (so much so, I've kept it all these years) is from March 1988 [https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1988-03, PDF pages 225-232] solely because of the beach ball rendering with Phong shading.
After modifying the code so it would compile in Turbo C, I'd execute the program on every PC in the office. The article states the program took 8 minutes on an 80386 with FP emulation; add in an 80387 and run time dropped to less than 30 seconds. That was my experience on our fleet of 286 and 386 office machines.
Running it on my home PC (286-12) without a floating-point co-processor took significantly longer than a 386 but when I plugged in a 287 (yes, I actually bought one so I could run AutoCAD 9), it decreased as dramatically as the 386/387 combo.
"Finally, dishonesty numbs. A few years ago, newspapers and nonprofits set up fact-checking squads, rating campaign statements with Pinocchios and such. The hope was that if nonpartisan outfits exposed campaign deception, the campaigns would be too ashamed to lie so much.
"This hope was naïve. As John Dickerson of Slate has said, the campaigns want the Pinocchios. They want to show how tough they are. But the result is a credibility vacuum. It’s impossible to take ads seriously. They are the jackhammer noise in the background of life."
I have a collection of 5-1/4" floppies that I've partially archived using an old PC. But I would rally love to use a 5-1/4" USB floppy drive to complete the process. So far I haven't come across anything - not even hints on converting a USB 3-1/2" if it's possible. Any suggestions?
The Turbo Pascal 3 family included three compilers: * TURBO.COM, the standard compiler; * TURBO-87.COM for compiling programs that would only run on a computer with an x87 math co-processor; * TURBOBCD.COM that included a binary coded decimal (BCD) data type for highly accurate real numbers.
Initially, the latter two were additional products and had to be purchased separately. At 3.02A, all three compilers were included in the package.
Yes, I still have my 3.01A & 3.02A diskettes with manuals and will keep them 'til the day I die.
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Since switching to Windows 7 I'm no longer so concerned about how my Start Menu is organized. It's far easier (and faster) to simply type in the search box what I'm looking for and select it from the results.
Overall, I think it's a pretty good list. But where's the sports category? Beginning with simulators like the ancient "NFL Challenge" by XOR Software to the life-like playability of Madden Football, video sports games have been some of the prime drivers in advancing the state of gaming platforms.
Some of the early commercials for the Xbox and Dreamcast put a heavy emphasis on their NFL franchise games to demonstrate the new realism available. Without these, who knows how "Splinter Cell" and the like would've evolved.
First, the reviewer writes he was reluctant to read through "400+" pages of fluff; Amazon's website says it's 408 pages. So why does the summary state it's 113?
Second, if the reviewer guarantees the book is so worthwhile then why does it only have a rating of 5/10?
I just finished reading a fictional book with a similar plot. In summary, a defense contractor wishes to restart the cold and so hires a "perception management" (PM) consultant to whip up world hysteria against Russia via the internet by utilizing fake blogs & news reports.
Most of the activities I perform work better with multiple screens simply because I can have applications maximized on separate screens. Whether it be surfing the web, working with spreadsheets, or debugging applications.
As for gaming, a single, large screen would be fun. Add in left & right screens and it's even better.
I've used Avast (okay), AVG (slow), and Vipre (annoying).
Compared to those, Microsoft Security Essentials has presented me with the fewest problems (none in fact), runs the quickest from an old, trusty, 1.4 GHz Pentium with XP Pro to a newer HP Laptop with Windows 7, and more importantly, has stopped several drive-by trojan installs (one came from MSNBC of all places).
I received my package yesterday and it had everything mentioned in the article plus balloons, streamers, and a few more goodies. Sounds like their package wasn't complete.
The way we're going to do it is I'll install a temp copy of 7 on my laptop, show a few things I know, and then let my guests play with it. We're also hosting a BBQ, playing some GH, RB, Wii Sports, and just plain chilling out.
I'm still undecided on whether to raffle off the single goodies (e.g. playing cards) or do some kind of trivia game: what kind of car was BG driving when he got hauled for the infamous mugshot?
After everyone's gone home I'll simply put my production hard drive back in the laptop and start using with my copy of Windows 7 Ultimate.:)
All in all, it should be a good time just getting together and hanging out.
Heros don't hang out and chat with villains. They fight. What we have here was people that didn't actually want to play the game. They just wanted to rack up (dubious) "achievements".
Reminds me of a scene from the television series "Shaka Zulu" where a young Shaka eagerly looks forward to proving himself in battle but instead observes a "battle" where the opponents simply dress up, dance, and hurl insults at each other to determine the winner. This method of warfare and Shaka's subsequent shakeup seems to be backed up by WikiPedia:
A number of historians argue that Shaka 'changed the nature of warfare in Southern Africa from 'a ritualised exchange of taunts with minimal loss of life into a true method of subjugation by wholesale slaughter'.
Not that this has any bearing on the subject at hand but interesting none the less. Or does it?
Look for online specials. Packt recently offered an awesome deal: 5 books for $99 with no shipping and free PDF versions which are DRM free. No, it doesn't help with the existing books in your library but for new ones it pays to look around.
Yes, I know commas are part of the CSV acronym but seriously they suck. A lot of the data I've worked with over the years (names, addresses, etc) was usually bound to have some records with embedded commas in the field values thus generating import exceptions.
I learned early on to use tabs for any CSV exports I had to create. And Excel has no problem interpreting tab-delimited files.
I don't have enough outlets in one room to house a cluster of these so I'd have to use a powerstrip which should be safe considering each wart consumes 5W each. But I'd probably have to have another strip as well for the USB drives I'd be attaching to each wart.:)
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My favorite issue of Byte (so much so, I've kept it all these years) is from March 1988 [https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1988-03, PDF pages 225-232] solely because of the beach ball rendering with Phong shading.
After modifying the code so it would compile in Turbo C, I'd execute the program on every PC in the office. The article states the program took 8 minutes on an 80386 with FP emulation; add in an 80387 and run time dropped to less than 30 seconds. That was my experience on our fleet of 286 and 386 office machines.
Running it on my home PC (286-12) without a floating-point co-processor took significantly longer than a 386 but when I plugged in a 287 (yes, I actually bought one so I could run AutoCAD 9), it decreased as dramatically as the 386/387 combo.
"The Late, Great Lanet Earth" by Hal Lindsey.
Dullest Campaign Ever - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/31/opinion/brooks-dullest-campaign-ever.html
"Finally, dishonesty numbs. A few years ago, newspapers and nonprofits set up fact-checking squads, rating campaign statements with Pinocchios and such. The hope was that if nonpartisan outfits exposed campaign deception, the campaigns would be too ashamed to lie so much.
"This hope was naïve. As John Dickerson of Slate has said, the campaigns want the Pinocchios. They want to show how tough they are. But the result is a credibility vacuum. It’s impossible to take ads seriously. They are the jackhammer noise in the background of life."
I have a collection of 5-1/4" floppies that I've partially archived using an old PC. But I would rally love to use a 5-1/4" USB floppy drive to complete the process. So far I haven't come across anything - not even hints on converting a USB 3-1/2" if it's possible. Any suggestions?
The Turbo Pascal 3 family included three compilers:
* TURBO.COM, the standard compiler;
* TURBO-87.COM for compiling programs that would only run on a computer with an x87 math co-processor;
* TURBOBCD.COM that included a binary coded decimal (BCD) data type for highly accurate real numbers.
Initially, the latter two were additional products and had to be purchased separately. At 3.02A, all three compilers were included in the package.
Yes, I still have my 3.01A & 3.02A diskettes with manuals and will keep them 'til the day I die.
[Grr, didn't realize I wasn't logged in until after I posted the comment.]
It may be revolutionary but for people who stutter - like myself - and others with speech impairments it's disconcerting.
Since switching to Windows 7 I'm no longer so concerned about how my Start Menu is organized. It's far easier (and faster) to simply type in the search box what I'm looking for and select it from the results.
Is this the same stack they use on their website? The same one that renders their website unusable on iPads?
Overall, I think it's a pretty good list. But where's the sports category? Beginning with simulators like the ancient "NFL Challenge" by XOR Software to the life-like playability of Madden Football, video sports games have been some of the prime drivers in advancing the state of gaming platforms. Some of the early commercials for the Xbox and Dreamcast put a heavy emphasis on their NFL franchise games to demonstrate the new realism available. Without these, who knows how "Splinter Cell" and the like would've evolved.
First, the reviewer writes he was reluctant to read through "400+" pages of fluff; Amazon's website says it's 408 pages. So why does the summary state it's 113?
Second, if the reviewer guarantees the book is so worthwhile then why does it only have a rating of 5/10?
I just finished reading a fictional book with a similar plot. In summary, a defense contractor wishes to restart the cold and so hires a "perception management" (PM) consultant to whip up world hysteria against Russia via the internet by utilizing fake blogs & news reports.
Most of the activities I perform work better with multiple screens simply because I can have applications maximized on separate screens. Whether it be surfing the web, working with spreadsheets, or debugging applications.
As for gaming, a single, large screen would be fun. Add in left & right screens and it's even better.
I've used Avast (okay), AVG (slow), and Vipre (annoying).
Compared to those, Microsoft Security Essentials has presented me with the fewest problems (none in fact), runs the quickest from an old, trusty, 1.4 GHz Pentium with XP Pro to a newer HP Laptop with Windows 7, and more importantly, has stopped several drive-by trojan installs (one came from MSNBC of all places).
Don't even get me started on Symantec.
I like it - can I use that on my posters? ;)
I received my package yesterday and it had everything mentioned in the article plus balloons, streamers, and a few more goodies. Sounds like their package wasn't complete.
The way we're going to do it is I'll install a temp copy of 7 on my laptop, show a few things I know, and then let my guests play with it. We're also hosting a BBQ, playing some GH, RB, Wii Sports, and just plain chilling out.
I'm still undecided on whether to raffle off the single goodies (e.g. playing cards) or do some kind of trivia game: what kind of car was BG driving when he got hauled for the infamous mugshot?
After everyone's gone home I'll simply put my production hard drive back in the laptop and start using with my copy of Windows 7 Ultimate. :)
All in all, it should be a good time just getting together and hanging out.
More appropriate as a Law & Order episode :)
We use it all the time. That's why we have both a Comcast DVR & TiVo (with Netflix) hooked up in the family room.
Even better than Pirates! at the Field Museum is the Dinosaur Exhibit, Sue, the world's largest, most complete and most famous T. Rex., and the Tsavo Lions upon which the film "The Ghost and the Darkness" was based.
Or if you want pictures browse to the print view of the article.
Reminds me of a scene from the television series "Shaka Zulu" where a young Shaka eagerly looks forward to proving himself in battle but instead observes a "battle" where the opponents simply dress up, dance, and hurl insults at each other to determine the winner. This method of warfare and Shaka's subsequent shakeup seems to be backed up by WikiPedia:
Not that this has any bearing on the subject at hand but interesting none the less. Or does it?
Look for online specials. Packt recently offered an awesome deal: 5 books for $99 with no shipping and free PDF versions which are DRM free. No, it doesn't help with the existing books in your library but for new ones it pays to look around.
Yes, I know commas are part of the CSV acronym but seriously they suck. A lot of the data I've worked with over the years (names, addresses, etc) was usually bound to have some records with embedded commas in the field values thus generating import exceptions.
I learned early on to use tabs for any CSV exports I had to create. And Excel has no problem interpreting tab-delimited files.
I don't need no GreaseMonkey script - I already click on all the ads visible :)
I don't have enough outlets in one room to house a cluster of these so I'd have to use a powerstrip which should be safe considering each wart consumes 5W each. But I'd probably have to have another strip as well for the USB drives I'd be attaching to each wart. :)
I'll believe it when I see it and since I don't see it I don't believe it.