Interestingly though (and a bit OT) a variation on the Z80 processor was used for Nintendo Gameboy.
Same is true for every Sega 8-bit machine from the SG-1000 through the Master System and Game Gear, as well as the TRS-80 line (excluding Tandy Color Computers).
The Z80 was (and still is!) and extremely popular CPU model.
I hire people who are intelligent enough to realize that a substance saturated into Dr. Bronners' Soap is not going to be a very useful tool for assault.
Maybe the substance isn't intended to be used while saturated into the soap. Maybe it's only put into the soap to disguise it during transport, and then later it's distilled out of the soap somehow and used in its pure form for date rape.
Yes, there are law enforcement specialists who have extensive knowledge of the tricks of the drug trade, but I wouldn't expect every highway patrol officer to know enough to make that kind of judgment call. All I expect of highway patrol officers is to enforce the law evenly, treat all people with respect, and conform to policies established by their superiors.
1. If you have a need to view Powerpoint presentations on your mobile phone, Microsoft is right, the iPhone is not for you. I don't remember Apple claiming that it was ever anything but a consumer-oriented device to begin with.
2. Limited third-party support or not, the Sidekick family of phones is a tremendous success in its target demographics.
Worse yet are the people who travel in pairs or groups, and talk to each other while on an airplane! If you thought it was bad to have to suffer through hearing ONE side of a conversation, it's even worse having to hear BOTH sides of one!
The only reasonable solution is to prevent airline passengers from talking at all for the duration of the flight!
How useful is this method going to be when it can't be used with web-based applications?
For one, how's the web browser going to obtain that keystroke timing info and pass it on to the host? A Javascript implementation would be trivial to circumvent. And an ActiveX-like implementation would be a security risk.
For another, what about stored passwords? I may use an identifiable cadence when typing in a new password for the first time, but if I choose to let my browser store that password, it's going to subsequently get pasted in at the speed of
Even if this effort might be scorned as a "hobby" or "waste of time", I think it's more noble and worthwhile than the efforts of the average open-source contributor.
Filing lawsuits should never be a "hobby" or a "waste of time".
If you can prove real damages resulting from being spammed, by all means file a suit. But if you're just playing Internet Cowboy, trying to clean up the frontier, kindly don't distract the courts from more important issues.
Ignignokt: You and your third dimension. Frylock: What about it? Ignignokt: Oh nothing, it's cute. We have five. Err: Th-thousand. Ignignokt: Yes, five thousand. Err: Don't question it!
$.0019 per performance rate in 2010 (resulting in a royalty obligation of $2,663,040 for that same audience averaging 10,000 listeners) for that year.
And what's the royalty obligation for a terrestrial FM radio station with the same size audience? And how about the other operating costs of both kinds of stations -- those 100,000 W broadcast towers aren't free to power, you know.
The big scary-looking numbers provided by savethestreams.org don't actually mean anything to me unless there is context provided for them.
That's why reasonable laws have impartial criteria, so arrogant jerks like you can't dictate who they think should carry and instead it is determined by the law in combination with expert trainers.
If only that were the case. There's too many firearm advocates arguing that ANY attempt to regulate gun ownership or require certification for gun owners is unacceptable -- that if you can't anonymously walk into a Wal-Mart with a wad of cash and walk out with a handgun and a box of ammo, that means the government's eventually going to use gun registration records to round up the gun owners and take their weapons away. Gun nuts seem to enjoy contemplating the "firefight with an oppressive overlord" fantasy.
I'm all for allowing a well-regulated militia to bear arms. But it HAS to be well-regulated.
So instead of waiting for the knee-jerk reaction and all the wailing for more useless gun-control laws to begin; all of which might influence an otherwise rational person to adopt a anti-gun attitude, might as well make the point right out of the gate that gun-control is NOT the answer to issues like this.
A knee for a knee, a jerk for a jerk.
If you're this twitchy in everything you do, I'd rather that you chose NOT to carry a handgun. I don't know that I could trust you to use it responsibly (ie, NOT use it).
Guns ARE bad. Mmmkay? Handguns are designed to kill people.
If nobody, citizen nor criminal, had access to guns, there would be 30+ people still alive at Virginia Tech right now. The eternal debate is how to give the Good Guys the ability to use guns for defense without allowing Bad Guys to use them offensively. And I don't have a good solution for that puzzle.
could one student, armed with a handgun, have prevented the death toll from climbing as high as it did?
Probably not. I mean, it's not as if dozens of police and campus security officers, with guns in hands and a lot of training in how to use them safely and effectively, were able to prevent the death tool from climbing so high.
Sorry, but 3 should be "?????", unless Nintendo released a linux dev kit for free without anyone noticing.
No, 3 shall stand at "cheap and easy to develop for", which the Wii is, even if they aren't giving away Linux devkits for free.
Anyone serious about developing for the Wii will find the experience cheap and easy (compared to other consoles). I'm sorry if it's neither cheap nor easy enough for your tastes.
I used to really worry about trusting business, especially MY business, on Linux. "Who" would support me? What about my data? What if it breaks, etc.
Those who have avoided looking into Linux and other OS alternatives for the workplace would be well reminded that unless you have tens of thousands of seats to buy licenses for, Microsoft doesn't give a damn about your business or your data, either.
* your documents will slowly stop being able to be read by other people since you don't have a current MS Office
Office document formats have a bad track record for backward compatibility, but they've always been pretty FORWARD-compatible. If you still create your documents in Office 97 for some reason, other people who have Office Vista Pro 2006 Hyper Fighting Edition should still be able to open and read them.
The real problem is that you will slowly stop being able to read documents generated by other people with newer versions of software. Let's hope OpenOffice can keep up.
* your OS will stop getting security patches and thus will become infested by worms and trojans, possibly making you criminally liable
I wish. We're not going to see any person or organization found criminally liable for the behavior of code they didn't themselves write any time soon.
Drawing lines by directly altering video memory - Check
Okay, but make it at least an EGA adapter. It would be cruel to force students to have to deal with CGA's 2-bit color palettes in graphics mode, 'snow' artifacts from reading and writing single-ported video memory simultaneously, and bizarre interlaced VRAM layout.
Maybe a cop runs a red light because he's lazy or maybe he runs one because he's following a suspect car. I'd rather let the cops have leeway and discretion in this matter.
Discretion, yes, but also accountability.
If a red-light camera catches a police car running a red light, the police officer should be able to offer an explanation for why it was done, and the story checked against dispatch records. If there is a valid reason for the behavior, the ticket is forgiven; if not, the cop ought to pay it.
Personally, I think The Fat Man's musical themes for Maniac Mansion were great, but the NES realization of them weren't very good. Instead of using the triangle-wave channel as a bass line or melodic lead, as most NES games did, Maniac Mansion often used it as an inner harmonic voice, and it stuck out odd. And since the triangle channel lacked a volume control, the other channels had to be kept at full volume constantly, too, at the expense of dynamic variety.
What about the versions of the game besides PC and NES: the Amiga, the Apple II, the MIDI juggernaut called Atari ST? Did they have better music?
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Interestingly though (and a bit OT) a variation on the Z80 processor was used for Nintendo Gameboy.
Same is true for every Sega 8-bit machine from the SG-1000 through the Master System and Game Gear, as well as the TRS-80 line (excluding Tandy Color Computers).
The Z80 was (and still is!) and extremely popular CPU model.
I hire people who are intelligent enough to realize that a substance saturated into Dr. Bronners' Soap is not going to be a very useful tool for assault.
Maybe the substance isn't intended to be used while saturated into the soap. Maybe it's only put into the soap to disguise it during transport, and then later it's distilled out of the soap somehow and used in its pure form for date rape.
Yes, there are law enforcement specialists who have extensive knowledge of the tricks of the drug trade, but I wouldn't expect every highway patrol officer to know enough to make that kind of judgment call. All I expect of highway patrol officers is to enforce the law evenly, treat all people with respect, and conform to policies established by their superiors.
1. If you have a need to view Powerpoint presentations on your mobile phone, Microsoft is right, the iPhone is not for you. I don't remember Apple claiming that it was ever anything but a consumer-oriented device to begin with.
2. Limited third-party support or not, the Sidekick family of phones is a tremendous success in its target demographics.
Worse yet are the people who travel in pairs or groups, and talk to each other while on an airplane! If you thought it was bad to have to suffer through hearing ONE side of a conversation, it's even worse having to hear BOTH sides of one!
The only reasonable solution is to prevent airline passengers from talking at all for the duration of the flight!
How useful is this method going to be when it can't be used with web-based applications?
For one, how's the web browser going to obtain that keystroke timing info and pass it on to the host? A Javascript implementation would be trivial to circumvent. And an ActiveX-like implementation would be a security risk.
For another, what about stored passwords? I may use an identifiable cadence when typing in a new password for the first time, but if I choose to let my browser store that password, it's going to subsequently get pasted in at the speed of . How many false negatives will this cause?
If alexa had wanted that data available they would have made it available through the API.
But if they HADN'T wanted that data available, there wouldn't exist a URL through which anybody could access it.
The hardware in the PS3 is the reason the price tag is so high.
The price tag being so high is the reason so few people are buying them.
So few people buying them is the reason so few companies are developing for the platform.
So few companies developing for the platform is the reason why there hasn't been a "killer app" for the PS3 yet.
Even if this effort might be scorned as a "hobby" or "waste of time", I think it's more noble and worthwhile than the efforts of the average open-source contributor.
Filing lawsuits should never be a "hobby" or a "waste of time".
If you can prove real damages resulting from being spammed, by all means file a suit. But if you're just playing Internet Cowboy, trying to clean up the frontier, kindly don't distract the courts from more important issues.
Ignignokt: You and your third dimension.
Frylock: What about it?
Ignignokt: Oh nothing, it's cute. We have five.
Err: Th-thousand.
Ignignokt: Yes, five thousand.
Err: Don't question it!
$.0019 per performance rate in 2010 (resulting in a royalty obligation of $2,663,040 for that same audience averaging 10,000 listeners) for that year.
And what's the royalty obligation for a terrestrial FM radio station with the same size audience? And how about the other operating costs of both kinds of stations -- those 100,000 W broadcast towers aren't free to power, you know.
The big scary-looking numbers provided by savethestreams.org don't actually mean anything to me unless there is context provided for them.
Today artists like Richie Hawtin and Sasha use Ableton Live to produce a dynamic set that is impossible to trainspot.
I don't know who those people are, or what "trainspot" means in this context.
All I know is that when DJ Jazzy Jeff, Kid Koala, or The X-Ecutioners man the wheels of steel, those wheels have vinyl LPs on them.
the people who can pass a CCP exam aren't the type that will be shooting wildly.
Even the people with CCP certification won't really know how they'll react in a firefight until they actually end up in one.
That's why reasonable laws have impartial criteria, so arrogant jerks like you can't dictate who they think should carry and instead it is determined by the law in combination with expert trainers.
If only that were the case. There's too many firearm advocates arguing that ANY attempt to regulate gun ownership or require certification for gun owners is unacceptable -- that if you can't anonymously walk into a Wal-Mart with a wad of cash and walk out with a handgun and a box of ammo, that means the government's eventually going to use gun registration records to round up the gun owners and take their weapons away. Gun nuts seem to enjoy contemplating the "firefight with an oppressive overlord" fantasy.
I'm all for allowing a well-regulated militia to bear arms. But it HAS to be well-regulated.
So instead of waiting for the knee-jerk reaction and all the wailing for more useless gun-control laws to begin; all of which might influence an otherwise rational person to adopt a anti-gun attitude, might as well make the point right out of the gate that gun-control is NOT the answer to issues like this.
A knee for a knee, a jerk for a jerk.
If you're this twitchy in everything you do, I'd rather that you chose NOT to carry a handgun. I don't know that I could trust you to use it responsibly (ie, NOT use it).
"guns r bad mmmkay?"
Guns ARE bad. Mmmkay? Handguns are designed to kill people.
If nobody, citizen nor criminal, had access to guns, there would be 30+ people still alive at Virginia Tech right now. The eternal debate is how to give the Good Guys the ability to use guns for defense without allowing Bad Guys to use them offensively. And I don't have a good solution for that puzzle.
could one student, armed with a handgun, have prevented the death toll from climbing as high as it did?
Probably not. I mean, it's not as if dozens of police and campus security officers, with guns in hands and a lot of training in how to use them safely and effectively, were able to prevent the death tool from climbing so high.
Sorry, but 3 should be "?????", unless Nintendo released a linux dev kit for free without anyone noticing.
No, 3 shall stand at "cheap and easy to develop for", which the Wii is, even if they aren't giving away Linux devkits for free.
Anyone serious about developing for the Wii will find the experience cheap and easy (compared to other consoles). I'm sorry if it's neither cheap nor easy enough for your tastes.
I used to really worry about trusting business, especially MY business, on Linux. "Who" would support me? What about my data? What if it breaks, etc.
Those who have avoided looking into Linux and other OS alternatives for the workplace would be well reminded that unless you have tens of thousands of seats to buy licenses for, Microsoft doesn't give a damn about your business or your data, either.
* your documents will slowly stop being able to be read by other people since you don't have a current MS Office
Office document formats have a bad track record for backward compatibility, but they've always been pretty FORWARD-compatible. If you still create your documents in Office 97 for some reason, other people who have Office Vista Pro 2006 Hyper Fighting Edition should still be able to open and read them.
The real problem is that you will slowly stop being able to read documents generated by other people with newer versions of software. Let's hope OpenOffice can keep up.
* your OS will stop getting security patches and thus will become infested by worms and trojans, possibly making you criminally liable
I wish. We're not going to see any person or organization found criminally liable for the behavior of code they didn't themselves write any time soon.
Drawing lines by directly altering video memory - Check
Okay, but make it at least an EGA adapter. It would be cruel to force students to have to deal with CGA's 2-bit color palettes in graphics mode, 'snow' artifacts from reading and writing single-ported video memory simultaneously, and bizarre interlaced VRAM layout.
Ask the rest of the students why they waived their right to read Wikipedia as free speech.
How is reading a form of speech?
Maybe a cop runs a red light because he's lazy or maybe he runs one because he's following a suspect car. I'd rather let the cops have leeway and discretion in this matter.
Discretion, yes, but also accountability.
If a red-light camera catches a police car running a red light, the police officer should be able to offer an explanation for why it was done, and the story checked against dispatch records. If there is a valid reason for the behavior, the ticket is forgiven; if not, the cop ought to pay it.
Personally, I think The Fat Man's musical themes for Maniac Mansion were great, but the NES realization of them weren't very good. Instead of using the triangle-wave channel as a bass line or melodic lead, as most NES games did, Maniac Mansion often used it as an inner harmonic voice, and it stuck out odd. And since the triangle channel lacked a volume control, the other channels had to be kept at full volume constantly, too, at the expense of dynamic variety.
What about the versions of the game besides PC and NES: the Amiga, the Apple II, the MIDI juggernaut called Atari ST? Did they have better music?
Bush fired several USAs midway through his second term.
Bush fired most/all US Attorneys at the beginning of his first term, AND fired again several of them midway through his second term as well.
[Clinton] wasn't impeached for receiving a blowjob, he was impeached (by the House) because he lied under oath (committed perjury).
And he was subsequently acquitted of all charges during the Senate trial. Let's not forget about that.