So does this mean that the IOPCC (International Obfuscated Perl Code Contest) is defunct? Reading the winners from that and trying to figure out what they do was something I always looked forward to each year.
I don't know of any countries where child pornography is legal, but they may exist.
There are many countries where what would be considered child pornography in the US wouldn't be in that country. For example, countries where the legal age of pornography is 17 or 16. This isn't even a moral issue, as "child" pornography is still illegal in those countries, its just that there is a difference of opinion on what age you cease to be a child.
Now that's not a problem, since it's also entirely impossible for it to happen. How do I know? Well, you can't travel back in time. Just assume that and you'll be fine.
You don't even have to assume that, just that all instances of time travel are pre-destined due to the laws of physics and everything that you will do in the past has already happened. Now, since we don't see people and time machines popping up all over the place, we can assume that time travel, is at the very least not common, if not necessarily nonexistant.
perhaps you should check out some of the more recent ones on www.artbell.com
Art Bell is either an idiot or a charlatan, I'm not sure which though. He constantly airs completely unconfirmed anecdotal stories and tries to use that as evidence for all sorts of completely ridiculous things. I suggest you pick up an issue or two of Skeptical Inquirer. It is a very good magazine that has lots of good debunkings on such topics as dowsing, Kirlian photography, and even crop circles. I also suggest that next time you listen to Art Bell, you ask yourself how critical is he being of his "evidence", and whether or not there is a simpler, naturalistic explanation for the things that people claim to see.
if you see the pics they are quite elaborate and definitely not natural, and for having been done in a single night Disney would have had to put down some serious money.. espeically considering the biggest one is right next to StoneHenge (correct me if i'm wrong but Disney still releases movies in teh US first)
No one is saying that Disney is responsible for the crop cirlces that have already occured. If you had taken the time to read the story, you would see that they are concerned that Disney may in the near future sponsor some people making crop circles in order to promote their new movie.
I dunno what they look like to you but they look like hints at the solar flares from 2012 that the mayans predicted.. my $.02
First of all, the Mayans didn't predict any solar flares, they didn't even know what solar flares are. They predicted a huge (earthly) disaster because they believed that those occur during plantary convergences (like the one that will happen in 2012) and other unusual astronomic events.
The only way that a solar flare could bend as much as a single wheat stalk woud be if a satellite malfunctioned because of a flare storm and crashed into a wheat field. The material part of a solar flare is limited to the sun's corona. The ejecta of a flare is just a bunch of charged particles, some of which are attracted to the Earth due to it's strong magnetic field. It is the immense charge that causes the damage, not the particles themselves.
disclaimer: this is neither a troll nor am i a lunatic (NATOL)
That may be true, but if so you are a sorely misguided person who doesn't know much about physics and doesn't know how to critically think.
CDDB works by doing a simple lookup of the CD's ID (burned in ) and then querys the CDDB database for what it thinks should the track names and other info
Um... no. There is no "CD ID number" burned into every CD. CDDB works by assuming that the track lengths are unique to a CD, which almost always works. That is why if you have the MP3s and you burn them to a CD, you can sometimes get CDDB to recognize it. Of course, that only works if all the different people you got your MP3s from ripped them with the same conventions, i.e. do you include the song gap, and if so, at the beginning or the end, etc.
If you read the text of the bill, life sentences are only allowed if the offender knowingly causes or attempts to cause death or serious bodily injury.
In other words, they are authorizing life sentences for attempted murder through hacking, which I think is very reasonable. Attempted murder can already get you a life sentence, I don't see why it should be any different if you attempt it through a computer than if you attempt it through any other means.
The Carbon API is present in some form on MacOS 9.x and OS X. Only OS X has the full implementation so a pure Carbon app may not run on MacOS 9.x but if it does run on MacOS 9.x it will run natively on OS X too.
The full Carbon API is present in BOTH 9.x and 10.x, assuming you have the latest versions of CarbonLib and Carbon.framework. There are several reasons why a Carbon app wouldn't work on 9.x though. One could be that it is a Mach-O binary instead of a CFM binary. Another could be that it uses some Cocoa code in the app (yes this is possible, and very easy). A third could be that it makes some calls to CoreFoundation APIs, such as Quartz (although strictly speaking Quartz is on top of CoreFoundation, rather than being a part of it). Any or all of these reasons are possible causes of Office v.X not running on 9.x.
Another misconception that needs clearing up is that Carbon and Cocoa are just APIs. One is not inherently superior to the other and both are sitting on top of BSD and Mach anyway.
Actually, neither Carbon nor Cocoa are sitting on top of BSD. Carbon, Cocoa, and Quartz are on top of CoreFoundation, and the BSD compatibility layer is at the same level as CF. But they do both sit on top of Mach.
As for neither one being superior to the other, thats debatable. I'd say that Cocoa is much better for most things, and simplifies nearly all aspects of the typical application development. However, Carbon has its uses.
Why would this necessarily reduce the number of colors in the picture? Wouldn't that depend on the data stream you are encoding into the picture? I mean if you decide to put each consequtive 2 bits of your data stream into the last two bits of each byte, then number of different colors would depend on the percentages of the 4 different combinations of two bits. All you have to do then is massage your data stream to be sufficiently random. Any good compression scheme should do that.
Yes he has a degree from Berkeley, but all of his major hardware hacking work (his games for Atari, work at HP and of course the Apple 1 and 2) were done before he had a degree. He dropped out of Berkeley in order to develop Apple into a company, and returned to Berkeley and finished his degree after he got pissed off with how Apple was being run in 1983-84.
I spent years on Full Throttle, Sam & Max Hit The Road, Day Of The Tentacle and Indiana Jones's Fate Of Atlantis!
You can't mention Day Of The Tentacle without mentioning the game it was a sequel to, Maniac Mansion. That game also has the distinction of being the first (non-starwars?) game that LucasArts ever put out, IIRC.
I thought Microsoft's plan for world domination was this:
1. Use monoply in technical fields to get into the underpants market
2. ??
3. World domination.
Um what? I don't think so. e ~= 2.718, so e^4.2 would be in the vicinity of 75 or 80. pi = (ln (-1))/i though.
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If you are worried about portability, keep an eye on GNUStep which used to be very compatible with NEXTStep and aims to remerge with Aqua/OS X Cocoa. In 5-8 years Mac OS X applications are likely to be cross platform whether they like it or not.
That would only work if the apps were recompiled to x86. Unless the app is open source, each manufacturer will have to do this themselves to make their app cross platform. Many manufacturers may do this, but Apple sure as hell won't.
've seen CDs with the standard 15 songs on them, then a hidden track as track 99. Tracks 16-98 were a couple seconds each of silence. Does this mean that the CD violated the copyright 83 times?
Nope, because each of those tracks were under 8 bars, or whatever the time limit is, and are non-infringing fair uses.
It's still far cheaper than fractional T3, and it may be the only way to get decent rates.
This will not get you faster download speeds. For that you would have to have something arranged with your ISP. What this will do is divide up the computers (or possibly separate TCP sessions on the same computer, I'm not sure) between the two broadband connections. This will let two computers each max out one pipe, instead of having to share the pipe. It won't let one computer use both pipes at the same time.
Here's the way the Bible presents the situation - which is NOT how you've presented it. First, the creator did NOT choose one single person. He chose HIMSELF. The Bible plainly states that God became man, and gave up his own human life on earth, to make a simple and easy way for man to be restored to a relationship with Himself. "God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through Him." (John 3:17). Read the surrounding few verses for some more context.
Actually, God chose several people to be his ambassadors, 5 to be precise. I am referring to the authors of the works of the New Testament, namely Matthew, Mark, Luke, John (or rather the people who wrote down what they said approx 30 years later), and Paul. Because the ambassador is the person who actually tells everyone else what you said. This was NOT Jesus. Jesus didn't write a single word of the Bible. Kind of strange when you think about it, hmmm?
Furthermore, the Bible teaches that God created man expressly so that He could have a relationship with us - not to rule us, but to have us become His friends. See Genesis 1:26 and John 15:13. In the working of His creation, we are free to turn away from God, as you plainly have done. That is your choice - God loved you enough to be willing to let you walk away from Him. But the consequence of your choice is eternal separation from Him. He didn't condemn anyone to eternal pain - each person who walks away from Him chooses his own suffering. If your preference is to live without God, he grants you that wish, despite His strong interest in a loving relationship with you.
Being free to turn away from God is impossible according to the Bible. The Bible says that God is omniscient, which therefore negates any possibility of free will for humans, and for that matter, for God as well. Another interesting thought, eh?
The simple fact is that the Bible is rife with contradictions, absurdities, and horrific morals. On top of that, several major portions are copied wholesale from other religions. In short, its not very good as a history book, it definately isn't good as a science book, and it certainly isn't good as a book of morals. Its useless trash.
It's perfectly legal for them to look at any information on their servers. Whether or not they actually do is a different question. There are absolutely no restrictions on what an ISP can or cannot do with your personal data beyond what they put in their privacy policy. Hell, even the phone companies, who are heavily regulated by the FCC, can tap anyone's phone at anytime and listen, as long as it is for "quality assurance" or "maintenence purposes". They just can't give out the info to the police without a supoena.
Super Mario Brothers 1, 2, and 3 (Super Mario World) are already out, the first one being available on the GBC, and the other two out for the GBA
Super Mario 3 is not out. Super Mario World is out. Super Mario 3 was the last SMB game for the NES. Super Mario World was the first SMB game for the SNES. They are different games. If you want to give Super Mario World a number, it would be Super Mario 4.
Zelda and Metroid, as complex as they were for games, they took up like 700k worth of code each.
You think thats good, the original Super Mario Brothers game took up only 32K IIRC. They accomplished this by using certain portions of the code twice for different things. What I mean by this is that they would jump to a data byte for a different instruction. For example if they had $C000 8A 9A A8 A9, 8A would be an instruction and 9A would be its data (depending on the instruction, I don't actually remember the 6502 opcodes) but, if you jump to $C001, 9A would then be considered an instruction and A8 would be its data. By doing this, they have essentially made the same piece of code do two completely different things. It is this kind of programming that just doesn't happen anymore.
You do not need a license to own a car, just to use it on public roads. There are many things that are required to be registered and tracked that you don't need a license to own. For example, property or houses, or the aforementioned cars. Registration and tracking on personally owned items, especially large value items such as houses or cars, is nothing new, and certainly did NOT start with guns.
That must have changed since I last looked at it then. The standard technique for getting OS X to boot on unsupported Macs used to be to make a new Install CD with a Darwin kernel in it compiled to support the older Mac replacing the OS X kernel.
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You wouldn't think so if you saw the contest winners. They make normal Perl look like Cobol. Line noise looks more readable than most of the entries.
So does this mean that the IOPCC (International Obfuscated Perl Code Contest) is defunct? Reading the winners from that and trying to figure out what they do was something I always looked forward to each year.
There are many countries where what would be considered child pornography in the US wouldn't be in that country. For example, countries where the legal age of pornography is 17 or 16. This isn't even a moral issue, as "child" pornography is still illegal in those countries, its just that there is a difference of opinion on what age you cease to be a child.
You don't even have to assume that, just that all instances of time travel are pre-destined due to the laws of physics and everything that you will do in the past has already happened. Now, since we don't see people and time machines popping up all over the place, we can assume that time travel, is at the very least not common, if not necessarily nonexistant.
There was in fact a card game based on this idea called "Patent No. 1" put out IIRC by Cheapass Games. You should check it out, its quite fun.
Damn, that one is even hard to type!
Art Bell is either an idiot or a charlatan, I'm not sure which though. He constantly airs completely unconfirmed anecdotal stories and tries to use that as evidence for all sorts of completely ridiculous things. I suggest you pick up an issue or two of Skeptical Inquirer. It is a very good magazine that has lots of good debunkings on such topics as dowsing, Kirlian photography, and even crop circles. I also suggest that next time you listen to Art Bell, you ask yourself how critical is he being of his "evidence", and whether or not there is a simpler, naturalistic explanation for the things that people claim to see.
if you see the pics they are quite elaborate and definitely not natural, and for having been done in a single night Disney would have had to put down some serious money.. espeically considering the biggest one is right next to StoneHenge (correct me if i'm wrong but Disney still releases movies in teh US first)
No one is saying that Disney is responsible for the crop cirlces that have already occured. If you had taken the time to read the story, you would see that they are concerned that Disney may in the near future sponsor some people making crop circles in order to promote their new movie.
I dunno what they look like to you but they look like hints at the solar flares from 2012 that the mayans predicted.. my $.02
First of all, the Mayans didn't predict any solar flares, they didn't even know what solar flares are. They predicted a huge (earthly) disaster because they believed that those occur during plantary convergences (like the one that will happen in 2012) and other unusual astronomic events.
The only way that a solar flare could bend as much as a single wheat stalk woud be if a satellite malfunctioned because of a flare storm and crashed into a wheat field. The material part of a solar flare is limited to the sun's corona. The ejecta of a flare is just a bunch of charged particles, some of which are attracted to the Earth due to it's strong magnetic field. It is the immense charge that causes the damage, not the particles themselves.
disclaimer: this is neither a troll nor am i a lunatic (NATOL)
That may be true, but if so you are a sorely misguided person who doesn't know much about physics and doesn't know how to critically think.
Isn't that kind of redundant?
Um... no. There is no "CD ID number" burned into every CD. CDDB works by assuming that the track lengths are unique to a CD, which almost always works. That is why if you have the MP3s and you burn them to a CD, you can sometimes get CDDB to recognize it. Of course, that only works if all the different people you got your MP3s from ripped them with the same conventions, i.e. do you include the song gap, and if so, at the beginning or the end, etc.
If you read the text of the bill, life sentences are only allowed if the offender knowingly causes or attempts to cause death or serious bodily injury.
In other words, they are authorizing life sentences for attempted murder through hacking, which I think is very reasonable. Attempted murder can already get you a life sentence, I don't see why it should be any different if you attempt it through a computer than if you attempt it through any other means.
The full Carbon API is present in BOTH 9.x and 10.x, assuming you have the latest versions of CarbonLib and Carbon.framework. There are several reasons why a Carbon app wouldn't work on 9.x though. One could be that it is a Mach-O binary instead of a CFM binary. Another could be that it uses some Cocoa code in the app (yes this is possible, and very easy). A third could be that it makes some calls to CoreFoundation APIs, such as Quartz (although strictly speaking Quartz is on top of CoreFoundation, rather than being a part of it). Any or all of these reasons are possible causes of Office v.X not running on 9.x.
Another misconception that needs clearing up is that Carbon and Cocoa are just APIs. One is not inherently superior to the other and both are sitting on top of BSD and Mach anyway.
Actually, neither Carbon nor Cocoa are sitting on top of BSD. Carbon, Cocoa, and Quartz are on top of CoreFoundation, and the BSD compatibility layer is at the same level as CF. But they do both sit on top of Mach.
As for neither one being superior to the other, thats debatable. I'd say that Cocoa is much better for most things, and simplifies nearly all aspects of the typical application development. However, Carbon has its uses.
Why would this necessarily reduce the number of colors in the picture? Wouldn't that depend on the data stream you are encoding into the picture? I mean if you decide to put each consequtive 2 bits of your data stream into the last two bits of each byte, then number of different colors would depend on the percentages of the 4 different combinations of two bits. All you have to do then is massage your data stream to be sufficiently random. Any good compression scheme should do that.
Yes he has a degree from Berkeley, but all of his major hardware hacking work (his games for Atari, work at HP and of course the Apple 1 and 2) were done before he had a degree. He dropped out of Berkeley in order to develop Apple into a company, and returned to Berkeley and finished his degree after he got pissed off with how Apple was being run in 1983-84.
You can't mention Day Of The Tentacle without mentioning the game it was a sequel to, Maniac Mansion. That game also has the distinction of being the first (non-starwars?) game that LucasArts ever put out, IIRC.
I thought Microsoft's plan for world domination was this: 1. Use monoply in technical fields to get into the underpants market 2. ?? 3. World domination.
Um what? I don't think so. e ~= 2.718, so e^4.2 would be in the vicinity of 75 or 80. pi = (ln (-1))/i though.
That would only work if the apps were recompiled to x86. Unless the app is open source, each manufacturer will have to do this themselves to make their app cross platform. Many manufacturers may do this, but Apple sure as hell won't.
Nope, because each of those tracks were under 8 bars, or whatever the time limit is, and are non-infringing fair uses.
This will not get you faster download speeds. For that you would have to have something arranged with your ISP. What this will do is divide up the computers (or possibly separate TCP sessions on the same computer, I'm not sure) between the two broadband connections. This will let two computers each max out one pipe, instead of having to share the pipe. It won't let one computer use both pipes at the same time.
Actually, God chose several people to be his ambassadors, 5 to be precise. I am referring to the authors of the works of the New Testament, namely Matthew, Mark, Luke, John (or rather the people who wrote down what they said approx 30 years later), and Paul. Because the ambassador is the person who actually tells everyone else what you said. This was NOT Jesus. Jesus didn't write a single word of the Bible. Kind of strange when you think about it, hmmm?
Furthermore, the Bible teaches that God created man expressly so that He could have a relationship with us - not to rule us, but to have us become His friends. See Genesis 1:26 and John 15:13. In the working of His creation, we are free to turn away from God, as you plainly have done. That is your choice - God loved you enough to be willing to let you walk away from Him. But the consequence of your choice is eternal separation from Him. He didn't condemn anyone to eternal pain - each person who walks away from Him chooses his own suffering. If your preference is to live without God, he grants you that wish, despite His strong interest in a loving relationship with you.
Being free to turn away from God is impossible according to the Bible. The Bible says that God is omniscient, which therefore negates any possibility of free will for humans, and for that matter, for God as well. Another interesting thought, eh?
The simple fact is that the Bible is rife with contradictions, absurdities, and horrific morals. On top of that, several major portions are copied wholesale from other religions. In short, its not very good as a history book, it definately isn't good as a science book, and it certainly isn't good as a book of morals. Its useless trash.
It's perfectly legal for them to look at any information on their servers. Whether or not they actually do is a different question. There are absolutely no restrictions on what an ISP can or cannot do with your personal data beyond what they put in their privacy policy. Hell, even the phone companies, who are heavily regulated by the FCC, can tap anyone's phone at anytime and listen, as long as it is for "quality assurance" or "maintenence purposes". They just can't give out the info to the police without a supoena.
Super Mario 3 is not out. Super Mario World is out. Super Mario 3 was the last SMB game for the NES. Super Mario World was the first SMB game for the SNES. They are different games. If you want to give Super Mario World a number, it would be Super Mario 4.
You think thats good, the original Super Mario Brothers game took up only 32K IIRC. They accomplished this by using certain portions of the code twice for different things. What I mean by this is that they would jump to a data byte for a different instruction. For example if they had $C000 8A 9A A8 A9, 8A would be an instruction and 9A would be its data (depending on the instruction, I don't actually remember the 6502 opcodes) but, if you jump to $C001, 9A would then be considered an instruction and A8 would be its data. By doing this, they have essentially made the same piece of code do two completely different things. It is this kind of programming that just doesn't happen anymore.
You do not need a license to own a car, just to use it on public roads. There are many things that are required to be registered and tracked that you don't need a license to own. For example, property or houses, or the aforementioned cars. Registration and tracking on personally owned items, especially large value items such as houses or cars, is nothing new, and certainly did NOT start with guns.
That must have changed since I last looked at it then. The standard technique for getting OS X to boot on unsupported Macs used to be to make a new Install CD with a Darwin kernel in it compiled to support the older Mac replacing the OS X kernel.