This sounds like the perfect opportunity to throw in OCR. Recognize a printed sheet of paper, or anything else with words on it, then read it back to someone, or do something else with the text. Perhaps even translate it. Maybe even someone who isn't blind could benefit from that.
What are you talking about? The GBA does support hblank DMA, which lets you write new values for each background layer's scrolling and control registers. I use it all the time. It's just not specifically called "HDMA" anymore, it's rolled up into regular DMA instead. Use incrementing source, and incrementing+reset destination, write the first value during vblank time, and you have HDMA. Because many registers are adjacent in IO memory, you can get multiple effects with a single DMA transfer.
I just noticed that this distro uses JWM, which was written by legendary TI-83 programmer Joe Wingbermuehle. If you went to high school in 1998-2002 and had a TI83 or TI83+, you might have had some of his programs, such as the Ion assembly shell, Boxworld, Breakout, Diamonds, Dstar, Landmine, or Jezzball.
How to kill adoption of home 3D display technology:
* Make any movies that people want an "Exclusive" to a particular brand of Blue-Ray player. Want Avatar? You need to buy this brand. Want Shrek? You need to buy this brand.
Yes, pulling shenanigans like this early on will kill a product. Just like an invite-only system that arbitrarily refuses people killed Google Plus.
Well, it IS a machine-independent assembly-like language. Use the -S or 'save temps' switch on GCC, and see the ASM code it generates. Don't forget your -O2 or -O3 switch, otherwise the code is really bad.
What's wrong with C is the function call conventions. Where a function needs the first few arguments placed into specific registers or the stack, and returns things in a specific way. This can be a performance bottleneck, because data needs to be moved around just to place it in the correct positions, and back again.
So what optimizers to is inline the functions, so they can avoid all the rigid restrictions placed by calling conventions, and the performance problems that come with them.
Sure, calling conventions provide a standardized way to deal with unknown functions that aren't in the same source file, but the biggest advantage of hand-coded ASM is that you don't necessarily need to use them.
This is a dumb idea. You'll just end up killing all traffic to your own website, and some other site offering binary downloads will end up getting all the visitors. And all of the community as well, nobody will visit the forum or bug tracker from a site that refuses to give out binaries, they'll communicate at the other site instead.
I thought the start menu got a lot better when they added the little text box there. Type in a few characters to filter everything out. Makes it more like the Awesomebar in Firefox.
There's always the Tiny C Compiler, a 280K zip file containing a C compiler, and all the headers for the standard library and Windows API. No installation needed for that.
I bought those once, and thought they were absolutely horrible. If you want to hear super-loud booming bass and literally nothing else, get those headphones.
Sounds like the bug on the Wii. There was a bug on the Wii where it used string comparison functions to compare signatures, instead of memory comparison functions. So it terminated at the first null character. So you could fakesign anything easily after 256 tries. From what little information is on that page, it sounds like the exact same problem.
Did Linux ever get an equivalent to DirectDraw? I know there is svgalib, but I thought that was equivalent to full screen DOS programs on Windows 98, since it could not share the screen. The news about coordinating rendering engines sounds neat, like you could safely get access to video memory and bypass any windowing systems, but still cooperate with a windowing system.
From what I've seen, the built-in HTML 5 video of Firefox performs very poorly, nowhere near the performance of the Windows Media Player plugin, and is even worse than Flash, especially when a page is scaled. Since Flash itself does a decent job at rendering vector animation, I wonder if Firefox can reach that level of performance? Flash itself is still slow, and has much room for improvement, so the sky is the limit to making a better Flash player.
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This sounds like the perfect opportunity to throw in OCR. Recognize a printed sheet of paper, or anything else with words on it, then read it back to someone, or do something else with the text. Perhaps even translate it. Maybe even someone who isn't blind could benefit from that.
What are you talking about?
The GBA does support hblank DMA, which lets you write new values for each background layer's scrolling and control registers. I use it all the time.
It's just not specifically called "HDMA" anymore, it's rolled up into regular DMA instead. Use incrementing source, and incrementing+reset destination, write the first value during vblank time, and you have HDMA.
Because many registers are adjacent in IO memory, you can get multiple effects with a single DMA transfer.
No! We're paying off a credit card, not a Verizon account!
I just noticed that this distro uses JWM, which was written by legendary TI-83 programmer Joe Wingbermuehle. If you went to high school in 1998-2002 and had a TI83 or TI83+, you might have had some of his programs, such as the Ion assembly shell, Boxworld, Breakout, Diamonds, Dstar, Landmine, or Jezzball.
Why not go over to Betanews where there are 13 stories about the Samsung Galaxy series posted every day?
http://xkcd.com/927/
How to kill adoption of home 3D display technology:
* Make any movies that people want an "Exclusive" to a particular brand of Blue-Ray player. Want Avatar? You need to buy this brand. Want Shrek? You need to buy this brand.
Yes, pulling shenanigans like this early on will kill a product. Just like an invite-only system that arbitrarily refuses people killed Google Plus.
Well, it IS a machine-independent assembly-like language. Use the -S or 'save temps' switch on GCC, and see the ASM code it generates. Don't forget your -O2 or -O3 switch, otherwise the code is really bad.
Can you get a list of all your DHCP clients from each DHCP server? I think that would probably be the way to go.
This is just proof that Apple's rigorous app approval process consists solely of a dartboard.
What's wrong with C is the function call conventions. Where a function needs the first few arguments placed into specific registers or the stack, and returns things in a specific way. This can be a performance bottleneck, because data needs to be moved around just to place it in the correct positions, and back again.
So what optimizers to is inline the functions, so they can avoid all the rigid restrictions placed by calling conventions, and the performance problems that come with them.
Sure, calling conventions provide a standardized way to deal with unknown functions that aren't in the same source file, but the biggest advantage of hand-coded ASM is that you don't necessarily need to use them.
Is it time to urge retailers to stop selling a router that spys on you?
This is a dumb idea. You'll just end up killing all traffic to your own website, and some other site offering binary downloads will end up getting all the visitors. And all of the community as well, nobody will visit the forum or bug tracker from a site that refuses to give out binaries, they'll communicate at the other site instead.
Pepsi Max is so much better than Coke Zero. There is no comparison.
I thought the start menu got a lot better when they added the little text box there. Type in a few characters to filter everything out. Makes it more like the Awesomebar in Firefox.
What happens if the computer shakes or vibrates? Is it going to collide with the CPU at any point?
There's always the Tiny C Compiler, a 280K zip file containing a C compiler, and all the headers for the standard library and Windows API. No installation needed for that.
Bandwidth.
I bought those once, and thought they were absolutely horrible. If you want to hear super-loud booming bass and literally nothing else, get those headphones.
People are dumb enough to leave the EXIF tags on unaltered JPEGs fresh from the camera. So those might help trace the victims.
Sounds like the bug on the Wii.
There was a bug on the Wii where it used string comparison functions to compare signatures, instead of memory comparison functions. So it terminated at the first null character. So you could fakesign anything easily after 256 tries.
From what little information is on that page, it sounds like the exact same problem.
Did Linux ever get an equivalent to DirectDraw? I know there is svgalib, but I thought that was equivalent to full screen DOS programs on Windows 98, since it could not share the screen. The news about coordinating rendering engines sounds neat, like you could safely get access to video memory and bypass any windowing systems, but still cooperate with a windowing system.
I was about to post that exact flash! So here's the link to watch it on Newgrounds, as uploaded by the original creator.
From what I've seen, the built-in HTML 5 video of Firefox performs very poorly, nowhere near the performance of the Windows Media Player plugin, and is even worse than Flash, especially when a page is scaled.
Since Flash itself does a decent job at rendering vector animation, I wonder if Firefox can reach that level of performance? Flash itself is still slow, and has much room for improvement, so the sky is the limit to making a better Flash player.
Monodevelop still can't do Edit and Continue.