CPU appears to be little-endian ("it's strongly suggested all multi-word operations use little endian in all DCPU-16 programs").
Sleep chamber peripheral appears to be big-endian ("Reads the B register, and reads a 64 bit number from memory address B in big endian, and sets the number of units to skip to that number.")
When reading a 64 bit value - indicating the number of units of time to travel forward through - there is mixed endianness.
In a parallel universe where the space race never ended, space travel was gaining popularity amongst corporations and rich individuals. In 1988, a brand new deep sleep cell was released, compatible with all popular 16 bit computers. Unfortunately, it used big endian, whereas the DCPU-16 specifications called for little endian. This led to a severe bug in the included drivers, causing a requested sleep of 0x0000 0000 0000 0001 years to last for 0x0001 0000 0000 0000 years.
It's now the year 281 474 976 712 644 AD, and the first lost people are starting to wake up to a universe on the brink of extinction, with all remote galaxies forever lost to red shift, star formation long since ended, and massive black holes dominating the galaxy.
so, standardize on a standard dock with micro usb for keyboard/touchscreen/buttons side-by-side with micro hdmi for video(/audio?) how hard was that? Ok, so you just added the requirement for usb & hdmi interface chips to stereos, but everything these days is (or will soon be) a computer anyhow.
Better yet, make all that shit wireless and you only have to worry about power connectors. And security.
Finn warned us that the matrix was full of mambos 'n' shit.
Looks like the demons are escaping into the real world now. How much longer until we're worshiping disencarnate beings in boxes and supplicating for their guidance?
John's just working on the world's greatest ARG. The bath salts are just the MacGuffin that allows him to transit the portal to the alternate universe the story takes place in.
And let this be a lesson for ya, it's all fun and games moving with your millions to a Caribbean tax shelter, until the local [cartel,corrupt police,militias, kidnappers, etc] come for you. Why not just keep your millions stateside, pay your taxes like a good boy, and get old and fat without these kinds of worries? Was there not enough suspense in that option?
this.
Proof this is just a black propaganda smear campaign by Obama against job creators. Poor McAfee is just all too convenient fall guy.
I'm pretty sure the "algorithm" in question is to forward any reported post to human reviewer outsourced to Elbonia or wherever is absolutely dirt cheapest.
Who then applies their local norms.
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Amazing what you can accomplish when you get Congressional pork-barrel politics out of the way.
We should try that for other failing agencies.
oh dear, did I just say that out loud?
They got a lot of nice girls there. AH!
And maybe a gambling house at L2. That should keep Bender busy. Just keep the stupids away from the flare guns.
belters vs loonies
FIGHT!
What exactly about iOS is hard to use?
You mean aside from requiring reasonably up-to-date Mac or Windows machine to run iTunes on? (note that's two problems there, not one)
Every time I touch iTunes I end up wanting to MURDERDEATHKILL every single developer involved.
I bet Martian wolves would have to be pretty bad-ass, surviving on rocks and stuff, given the dearth of children to carry off on Mars.
I can't believe Grotzinger would be so sloppy with his terminology when discussing sifting Martian soil samples into the SAM.
Great, how what the hell am I supposed to break and jam into people's eye sockets during a fight? A beer bottle? Lame.
Broken glass from shattered fishtanks.
What about the promised " earthshaking news" from the Mars Curiosity rover mission?!!!
NASA's been playing the boy that cried wolf a little too much the last couple years. Serves them right when their funding gets cut.
CPU appears to be little-endian ("it's strongly suggested all multi-word operations use little endian in all DCPU-16 programs").
Sleep chamber peripheral appears to be big-endian ("Reads the B register, and reads a 64 bit number from memory address B in big endian, and sets the number of units to skip to that number.")
When reading a 64 bit value - indicating the number of units of time to travel forward through - there is mixed endianness.
What could possibly go wrong?
[an embedded programmer guy]
THAT'S THE JOKE /McBain
Backstory
In a parallel universe where the space race never ended, space travel was gaining popularity amongst corporations and rich individuals. In 1988, a brand new deep sleep cell was released, compatible with all popular 16 bit computers. Unfortunately, it used big endian, whereas the DCPU-16 specifications called for little endian. This led to a severe bug in the included drivers, causing a requested sleep of 0x0000 0000 0000 0001 years to last for 0x0001 0000 0000 0000 years.
It's now the year 281 474 976 712 644 AD, and the first lost people are starting to wake up to a universe on the brink of extinction, with all remote galaxies forever lost to red shift, star formation long since ended, and massive black holes dominating the galaxy.
S i rian invasion.
/. is a basket of fail when it comes to properly rendering html formatting in comments
goddamn
Now we have a distributed sensor net to pinpoint where things go "boom". Also this. (WTF, ACM, you want people to pay for that?!!!)
so, standardize on a standard dock with micro usb for keyboard/touchscreen/buttons side-by-side with micro hdmi for video(/audio?) how hard was that? Ok, so you just added the requirement for usb & hdmi interface chips to stereos, but everything these days is (or will soon be) a computer anyhow.
Better yet, make all that shit wireless and you only have to worry about power connectors. And security.
shareholders
So fractional slavery is acceptable?!!! I thought we settled this 150+ years ago.
This whole "companies are people, too" road leads to madness.
Finn warned us that the matrix was full of mambos 'n' shit.
Looks like the demons are escaping into the real world now.
How much longer until we're worshiping disencarnate beings in boxes and supplicating for their guidance?
we heard you like to compute while you talk, so we put your boss's computer in your phone so you can slave away 24/7!
Don't give them to NYC. They won't bother to take care of them or handle them properly.
"when you buy that fake Movada, you're rolling with al Qaeda."
So the guy wasn't on drugs when he ATE that other guy's face off?
well, that's a relief.
fergit HELL !
yeah, class warfare.
And you berate the losing side for starting to notice and complain after 40 years.
Stay classy, job creator.
obviously sales of Surface are cannibalizing Windows 8 sales.
bazinga!
John's just working on the world's greatest ARG. The bath salts are just the MacGuffin that allows him to transit the portal to the alternate universe the story takes place in.
And let this be a lesson for ya, it's all fun and games moving with your millions to a Caribbean tax shelter, until the local [cartel,corrupt police,militias, kidnappers, etc] come for you. Why not just keep your millions stateside, pay your taxes like a good boy, and get old and fat without these kinds of worries? Was there not enough suspense in that option?
this.
Proof this is just a black propaganda smear campaign by Obama against job creators.
Poor McAfee is just all too convenient fall guy.
John McAfee is the bass man!
I'm pretty sure the "algorithm" in question is to forward any reported post to human reviewer outsourced to Elbonia or wherever is absolutely dirt cheapest.
Who then applies their local norms.