main(){
printf("My computer is %d bits\n", sizeof(void*) * 8);
}
Nope, it's still broken - cc65 compiled that one, I ran it on C64 emulator again, and lo and behold, it still claims it's a 16-bit machine. The memory address space is 64k, means sizeof(void*) = width of address bus = 16 bits, but the processor itself is 8-bit. There's a distinct difference between processing stuff and storing it in the memory =)
I compiled that with cc65, and run it on VICE; apparently Commodore 64 is a 16-bit machine after all! =) So the reason why it rules so much has finally been explained...
Why take the time to do this? For some stupid contest? I don't get it.
Sort of like Zen: if you have to ask, you will not understand. There are things that cannot be appreciated with just a superficial view, it requires deep understanding.
I'm extremely curious, as many people have mis-quoted this figure. Where did you get this information? Is there another article that quotes this incorrectly?
Yeah, there was an article in the Register that had the numbers wrong way around first, but they corrected it...
I use Windows for most of the games and video capture/editing, and Linux for everything else... Recently, I've noticed that Linux is getting really, really good in graphics and design side. Clearly beats the crap out of Windows, but Macs are probably still the kings on this field, even when the machines and programs are more expensive - but that's just quality. =)
Acrobat (full thing, not the reader)
There are some stuff for this: GhostScript has ps2pdf, which is just sweet except that it rasterizes fonts other than the Adobe basic fonts, and doesn't compress (haven't used this for a while, maybe it has improved). <bauhaus>But then again, who needs fonts other than Helvetica? Who even needs capital letters?</bauhaus> =) Some apps have pretty good native PDF output. For example, Scribus supports PDF output pretty decently, font embedding and all.
So can you communicate with users connected to other servers? (This is the first time I've heard of Jabber btw). Otherwise, it seems a bit useless.
Yep! I have (or have had) users in my roster from three or four servers, everything works beautifully. Jabber users are referred to as user@host, and you only need to be connected to your own server; You send a message through your server, that in turn passes the message on to recipient's server, which passes it to the recipient's client...
And, some clients (not Gabber, though) allow you to connect to multiple servers, too, but this is often not required.
Does NOT support Ctrl+W, IE's and Mozilla's shortcut to close a browser window on Windows. (Mac uses Cmd+W.) It also doesn't support double-clicking the window's system menu (the little IE icon). Therefore, it's not very realistic.
And also very few sites that have pop-ups / annoying advertising don't have background music that tells the user to close them, and have a counter that tells how many popups have been closed so far... And also, the pop-up windows usually tend to be bigger. Also, the pop-unders are underrepresented.
But the idea is clear enough, and since the goal was, unlike the title says, to be a social commentary and simulation frustration caused by pop-ups rather than a ultra-realistic browsing simulation, it fulfills the goal rather well. =)
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..Google toolbar! I'm helpless without it.
Screw the Google toolbar - I'm helpless without multiple search engines, and that's what bookmark keywords are for. (I type "g something" and it searches google for that, "e2 something" to go to node at everything2, "imdb something" to search iMDB, and so on...)
Not sure if this feature is in Phoenix, but Mozilla has it.
And I'm sure there's a Mozilla/Phoenix toolbar.xpi somewhere for this if you absolutely insist, but I think bookmark keywords rule.
The biggest problem with Jabber is that it is still a little tricky for newbies to get in to -- there is no "download this, it registers you with one of the common servers" links (not that I'm aware of anyway),...
Oh, I really need to tell how I got started with Jabber. I just apt-got Gabber, started it up, and it very helpfully started a wizard that let me to set up an account at either jabber.com or jabber.org (probably also some other server). I was online in no time! =)
Gabber was one of the few programs I have recently used that even tried to be newbie-friendly.
Though, the transport setup was a bit tricky, but I understood it anyway. It should provide more help on why does it not work, like, "sorry, AOL is a big evil company that blocked jabber.com from connecting to ICQ and AIM, so you cannot use them here. Just be an Evangelist and tell your friends to use Jabber too." =)
I've heard the precise idea of Helix is that it will provide a client and server for streaming any kind of media, not just the ones Real has traditionally offered. So, I suppose this will one day be able to do this stuff.
There are some video streaming systems for *NIX, for example VideoLAN, but VideoLAN is raw MPEG (which means modem users and high ping baits can forget the whole thing)...
The only working streaming video I've seen on Linux has been Real, actually. And yes, I told many Windows users not to install RP, but Linux version of RP is definitely tolerable, if you watch the video from faaaar away. =)
there would NEVER be a commercially available stand-alone divx player becuase divx 3 was cobbled together from bits of microsoft code and thus violated their copyrights.
Correct. Of course, it could theoretically be possible to make a DivX 3.11 decoder, only for compatibility, that didn't use any of Microsoft's code. Nobody seems to bother because the new OpenDivX derivatives seem to do the job much better than MS stuff ever did...
They're using this IRC channel as a transport for their encrypted IRC session on another server, where they are coordinating their efforts to destroy Al Qaeda.
Well, this explains a lot of IRC. In fact, it's just what I've been suspecting quite a while now.
And folks at Slashnet are actually exchanging encrypted plans for World Domination Fast, then? =)
XS is going away completely, and interfacing C to Perl is going to get a lot easier.... Instead of embedding an interpreter, I think you'd just embed a Parrot VM...
Yeah, I figured it would be something like this =) XS is pretty arcane.
Thanks for this interesting nugget of information...
True, Perl 6 is coming, but the shape of the language is still being discussed, the virtual machine isn't doing that much yet, and there's not really anything substantial yet... it may take a year or two until Perl 6 is out (not sure about the developers' actual schedule, though).
As far as I know, there's not many (if any?) books that discuss the XS or Perl embedding. It sure isn't covered that widely in the Camel or Ram, and the only reference has been "go RTF 'perldoc perlxs'"... =)
And most importantly, the Perl 6 folks have not said a word about how XS and embedding stuff works in Perl 6. (I suspect that it will be radically different, because of the Parrot...)
Probably because there is nothing to be gained by buying a copy of movie or a song after pirating it,
Why do I buy DVDs even when I could get the movies online? A few things: Quality (no, DivX isn't "near DVD quality" =), the sound (stereo MP3? Jesus), extras, the subtitles (good if I can get English subs, let alone Finnish)...
...and there's always the same thing that audiophiles say about CDs and LPs: they look great on shelf and are fun to browse in the stores and in your own collection.
I'm a collector person. I've always been one. The small stack of burned CDs that have DivX movies just doesn't feel the same as the sight of the ~50 DVDs sitting on the shelf. You know, hard to explain, but there's always that.
To me, DivX stuff is usually nothing more than a free version of movie rental. I know I'll be buying the DVDs of a couple of movies I recently downloaded - as soon as I have the money =)
I like to look at it this way: Back in the VHS era, owning a copy of movie on VHS was not fun. You had a crappy copy of a movie. Then DVDs came, and suddently, it made sense to own a movie in this format: Great quality, great stuff. It made sense to first see the movie in all its glory in the theater, then get the DVD to see it in home in almost as impressive environment, with all the extra stuff. It enrichened the movie experience a great deal.
While DivX is in a way return to VHS era. It's still just a movie. Still technically not as convinient, nice or featureful as DVD. It is like renting the VHS tape in a way: You can see what the movie is like, you can decide if it's a good movie - but it isn't as nice as getting the thing on DVD or seeing it in the theater.
I wish I could say the same about CDs, though - they're severely overpriced compared to their technical level. Somehow CDs have not felt the same since music videos started coming out on DVDs =)
From what I can tell, it's pretty tough to do something arbitrarily and purposefully.
But on the other hand, it's easy to be do purposefully something arbitrary (for example, the cinematic example, kill a random hostage every 10 minutes to speed up negotiations), which is I think what they meant, or be purposefully arbitrary (for example, choose something randomly).
Here in holland it used to be 45 guilders and thus now 22 Euros...
In Finland, about the same prices. But coincidentally, DVDs cost around 25 euros and computer games 40-50 euros. With this prices, what do you think is more likely for me to buy? Some people commented that music industry is not losing money because of the net piracy but rather because people are rather buying DVDs and games instead - and with pricing like this, it's not a wonder...
Yeah, the audiophiles like to say how owning and going to buy CDs is an experience in itself, but it's an expensive experience these days and just not worth it.
With prices like this... Thank you, I think I'll concentrate my music "purchases" around remix.overclocked.org and remix.kwed.org, at least they have music that interests me most. Seriously.
Resolution could be changed before, but not on all chipsets.
...or configurations. Some SDL games could change resolution just fine with NVIDIA drivers, but somehow some couldn't when TwinView (for TV-Out) was enabled on the card.
This extension is a good step to the right direction, yes, definitely... the more "on the fly" configuration for X there is, the better!
I've tried 3.0 on a laptop. And I can tell you, it's no Slack 8.1.
But it sure as hell is better than Slack 3.::ducks and runs::
The installer sucks in comparison, and really needs to be dry-run about five times before you know what to do.
...and back when Slackware was at 3.0, I reinstalled it 10 times before it was even remotely stable! And had to compile the kernel too! Not kidding!
But back to the seriousness: As mentioned, usually in Linux distros, doesn't matter how bad the installer is, you only need to use it once anyway. I know I've only needed to install Debian once per machine... =)
Debian's installation is totally unpolished, inconvenient, and it basically sucks.
But that doesn't matter, because you only need to do it once. This isn't your daddy's Windows that need to be reinstalled every six months.
I installed Debian on my own machine in... around 1996 or 1997. After that, it has been moved several times from one hard drive to another, and once from one computer to another. Over time, it's been upgraded, upgraded and upgraded. And it still works beautifully.
When I first started using debian is was all confusing, but after a while everything made sense. I fell into a kind of geek zen - now I know the system better then I did any redhat machine.
When I first used Debian they didn't have official ISOs, so the releases I got were a little bit broken.
I remember my first Debian install. Some daemon was seriously confused by the lack of network and decided to spam the console about it every few minutes. I finally tracked it down and removed that unnecessary daemon (I was just a kid with a daddy's PC and a modem, not a UNIX hippie with a Server). After I had configured the console to accept 8-bit characters and use Finnish keymap...
...silence. Beautiful silence. Sort of like in war movies when the peace comes - all cannons fall silent...
...I had nothing to complain about the system and it felt awesome. I was actually able to fix something! Everywhere around me, I saw fresh packages, new cool programs, a lot of cool programs (and this was somewhere around 1.2 release with one CD-ROM, I'd be really shocked to know that some day the release would need 7 CD-ROMs...)
I have no damn clue why I installed Slackware 3.x on my own machine when I got that. Sure enough, around year later, I finally switched to Debian, and haven't looked back. =)
I'd also like to see a source compile option added. If apt was combined with Gentoo's emerge, Debian would be almost unstopable.
Back when I was a newbie, them old beards told me that Pre-Packaged Kernels are Satan's Work. So I have compiled my kernels by hand.
And Debian does support rolling your own kernel. There's nothing to stop you from downloading a kernel source and building it.
In fact, it already comes with the kernel source and header packages, AND in package kernel-package, you'll find the real gem: the make-kpkg tool.
With make-kpkg, you can configure and build the kernel, and it makes it a perfectly ordinary Debian package that also manages the/vmlinuz and/vmlinuz.old symlinks in root directory - AND also optionally the bootloader menu list (at least in case of GRUB). It also does this for all debianized kernel module source packages! ALSA? You got it. Crushed by the vicious tyranny of NVIDIA binary drivers? You got them. Make-kpkg rules. It rules.
Fur, renderer only? You have no clue. You have to be able to manage your fur...
I apologise for my ignorance. This may be in part because I haven't done any fur in renderers, and I keep my own fur managed in the renderer side. (Who the hell needs combs, anyway?)
SubD is Subdivision tools..very handy (think NURBS controlled by a vertex box).
And Blender's subsurfs are essentially NURBS that are manipulated as if they would be meshes. Sounds smilar...
And that's basically Blender at the moment, really. A cool tool, but not yet ready for the bigtime. not by a long shot. It just needs a couple of years of work.
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Nope, it's still broken - cc65 compiled that one, I ran it on C64 emulator again, and lo and behold, it still claims it's a 16-bit machine. The memory address space is 64k, means sizeof(void*) = width of address bus = 16 bits, but the processor itself is 8-bit. There's a distinct difference between processing stuff and storing it in the memory =)
lda #$10 ; jsr pusha0 mor'ass...
I compiled that with cc65, and run it on VICE; apparently Commodore 64 is a 16-bit machine after all! =) So the reason why it rules so much has finally been explained...
Or maybe there was something wrong with the code.
Sort of like Zen: if you have to ask, you will not understand. There are things that cannot be appreciated with just a superficial view, it requires deep understanding.
Apologies for saying that, but it's the truth...
Yeah, there was an article in the Register that had the numbers wrong way around first, but they corrected it...
I use Windows for most of the games and video capture/editing, and Linux for everything else... Recently, I've noticed that Linux is getting really, really good in graphics and design side. Clearly beats the crap out of Windows, but Macs are probably still the kings on this field, even when the machines and programs are more expensive - but that's just quality. =)
There are some stuff for this: GhostScript has ps2pdf, which is just sweet except that it rasterizes fonts other than the Adobe basic fonts, and doesn't compress (haven't used this for a while, maybe it has improved). <bauhaus>But then again, who needs fonts other than Helvetica? Who even needs capital letters?</bauhaus> =) Some apps have pretty good native PDF output. For example, Scribus supports PDF output pretty decently, font embedding and all.
Yep! I have (or have had) users in my roster from three or four servers, everything works beautifully. Jabber users are referred to as user@host, and you only need to be connected to your own server; You send a message through your server, that in turn passes the message on to recipient's server, which passes it to the recipient's client...
And, some clients (not Gabber, though) allow you to connect to multiple servers, too, but this is often not required.
And also very few sites that have pop-ups / annoying advertising don't have background music that tells the user to close them, and have a counter that tells how many popups have been closed so far... And also, the pop-up windows usually tend to be bigger. Also, the pop-unders are underrepresented.
But the idea is clear enough, and since the goal was, unlike the title says, to be a social commentary and simulation frustration caused by pop-ups rather than a ultra-realistic browsing simulation, it fulfills the goal rather well. =)
Screw the Google toolbar - I'm helpless without multiple search engines, and that's what bookmark keywords are for. (I type "g something" and it searches google for that, "e2 something" to go to node at everything2, "imdb something" to search iMDB, and so on...)
Not sure if this feature is in Phoenix, but Mozilla has it.
And I'm sure there's a Mozilla/Phoenix toolbar .xpi somewhere for this if you absolutely insist, but I think bookmark keywords rule.
Excellent points. =) Both methods work to the extent they're needed, and I agree that there's no "privacy risk" in either.
This sort of stuff needs to be designed very carefully...
Oh, I really need to tell how I got started with Jabber. I just apt-got Gabber, started it up, and it very helpfully started a wizard that let me to set up an account at either jabber.com or jabber.org (probably also some other server). I was online in no time! =)
Gabber was one of the few programs I have recently used that even tried to be newbie-friendly.
Though, the transport setup was a bit tricky, but I understood it anyway. It should provide more help on why does it not work, like, "sorry, AOL is a big evil company that blocked jabber.com from connecting to ICQ and AIM, so you cannot use them here. Just be an Evangelist and tell your friends to use Jabber too." =)
I've heard the precise idea of Helix is that it will provide a client and server for streaming any kind of media, not just the ones Real has traditionally offered. So, I suppose this will one day be able to do this stuff.
There are some video streaming systems for *NIX, for example VideoLAN, but VideoLAN is raw MPEG (which means modem users and high ping baits can forget the whole thing)...
The only working streaming video I've seen on Linux has been Real, actually. And yes, I told many Windows users not to install RP, but Linux version of RP is definitely tolerable, if you watch the video from faaaar away. =)
The user screamed "Referer: header is a privacy risk! Let's get rid of it!"
Another shouted "But how do we prevent leeching?"
A wise fellow explained, "Ah, with but a few session cookies."
But another user screamed, "Cookies are a privacy risk! Let's get rid of them!"
And so, the discussion went nowhere.
...
You know, you can never trust the client anyway. Someone will rip away the Referer, someone will shred Cookies.
Any other suggestions?
Correct. Of course, it could theoretically be possible to make a DivX 3.11 decoder, only for compatibility, that didn't use any of Microsoft's code. Nobody seems to bother because the new OpenDivX derivatives seem to do the job much better than MS stuff ever did...
Well, this explains a lot of IRC. In fact, it's just what I've been suspecting quite a while now.
And folks at Slashnet are actually exchanging encrypted plans for World Domination Fast, then? =)
Yeah, I figured it would be something like this =) XS is pretty arcane.
Thanks for this interesting nugget of information...
True, Perl 6 is coming, but the shape of the language is still being discussed, the virtual machine isn't doing that much yet, and there's not really anything substantial yet... it may take a year or two until Perl 6 is out (not sure about the developers' actual schedule, though).
As far as I know, there's not many (if any?) books that discuss the XS or Perl embedding. It sure isn't covered that widely in the Camel or Ram, and the only reference has been "go RTF 'perldoc perlxs'"... =)
And most importantly, the Perl 6 folks have not said a word about how XS and embedding stuff works in Perl 6. (I suspect that it will be radically different, because of the Parrot...)
Why do I buy DVDs even when I could get the movies online? A few things: Quality (no, DivX isn't "near DVD quality" =), the sound (stereo MP3? Jesus), extras, the subtitles (good if I can get English subs, let alone Finnish)...
...and there's always the same thing that audiophiles say about CDs and LPs: they look great on shelf and are fun to browse in the stores and in your own collection.
I'm a collector person. I've always been one. The small stack of burned CDs that have DivX movies just doesn't feel the same as the sight of the ~50 DVDs sitting on the shelf. You know, hard to explain, but there's always that.
To me, DivX stuff is usually nothing more than a free version of movie rental. I know I'll be buying the DVDs of a couple of movies I recently downloaded - as soon as I have the money =)
I like to look at it this way: Back in the VHS era, owning a copy of movie on VHS was not fun. You had a crappy copy of a movie. Then DVDs came, and suddently, it made sense to own a movie in this format: Great quality, great stuff. It made sense to first see the movie in all its glory in the theater, then get the DVD to see it in home in almost as impressive environment, with all the extra stuff. It enrichened the movie experience a great deal.
While DivX is in a way return to VHS era. It's still just a movie. Still technically not as convinient, nice or featureful as DVD. It is like renting the VHS tape in a way: You can see what the movie is like, you can decide if it's a good movie - but it isn't as nice as getting the thing on DVD or seeing it in the theater.
I wish I could say the same about CDs, though - they're severely overpriced compared to their technical level. Somehow CDs have not felt the same since music videos started coming out on DVDs =)
But on the other hand, it's easy to be do purposefully something arbitrary (for example, the cinematic example, kill a random hostage every 10 minutes to speed up negotiations), which is I think what they meant, or be purposefully arbitrary (for example, choose something randomly).
I know, I know, just tweaking the commas, but...
In Finland, about the same prices. But coincidentally, DVDs cost around 25 euros and computer games 40-50 euros. With this prices, what do you think is more likely for me to buy? Some people commented that music industry is not losing money because of the net piracy but rather because people are rather buying DVDs and games instead - and with pricing like this, it's not a wonder...
Yeah, the audiophiles like to say how owning and going to buy CDs is an experience in itself, but it's an expensive experience these days and just not worth it.
With prices like this... Thank you, I think I'll concentrate my music "purchases" around remix.overclocked.org and remix.kwed.org, at least they have music that interests me most. Seriously.
...or configurations. Some SDL games could change resolution just fine with NVIDIA drivers, but somehow some couldn't when TwinView (for TV-Out) was enabled on the card.
This extension is a good step to the right direction, yes, definitely... the more "on the fly" configuration for X there is, the better!
But it sure as hell is better than Slack 3. ::ducks and runs::
...and back when Slackware was at 3.0, I reinstalled it 10 times before it was even remotely stable! And had to compile the kernel too! Not kidding!
But back to the seriousness: As mentioned, usually in Linux distros, doesn't matter how bad the installer is, you only need to use it once anyway. I know I've only needed to install Debian once per machine... =)
But that doesn't matter, because you only need to do it once. This isn't your daddy's Windows that need to be reinstalled every six months.
I installed Debian on my own machine in... around 1996 or 1997. After that, it has been moved several times from one hard drive to another, and once from one computer to another. Over time, it's been upgraded, upgraded and upgraded. And it still works beautifully.
When I first used Debian they didn't have official ISOs, so the releases I got were a little bit broken.
I remember my first Debian install. Some daemon was seriously confused by the lack of network and decided to spam the console about it every few minutes. I finally tracked it down and removed that unnecessary daemon (I was just a kid with a daddy's PC and a modem, not a UNIX hippie with a Server). After I had configured the console to accept 8-bit characters and use Finnish keymap...
...silence. Beautiful silence. Sort of like in war movies when the peace comes - all cannons fall silent...
...I had nothing to complain about the system and it felt awesome. I was actually able to fix something! Everywhere around me, I saw fresh packages, new cool programs, a lot of cool programs (and this was somewhere around 1.2 release with one CD-ROM, I'd be really shocked to know that some day the release would need 7 CD-ROMs...)
I have no damn clue why I installed Slackware 3.x on my own machine when I got that. Sure enough, around year later, I finally switched to Debian, and haven't looked back. =)
Back when I was a newbie, them old beards told me that Pre-Packaged Kernels are Satan's Work. So I have compiled my kernels by hand.
And Debian does support rolling your own kernel. There's nothing to stop you from downloading a kernel source and building it.
In fact, it already comes with the kernel source and header packages, AND in package kernel-package, you'll find the real gem: the make-kpkg tool.
With make-kpkg, you can configure and build the kernel, and it makes it a perfectly ordinary Debian package that also manages the /vmlinuz and /vmlinuz.old symlinks in root directory - AND also optionally the bootloader menu list (at least in case of GRUB). It also does this for all debianized kernel module source packages! ALSA? You got it. Crushed by the vicious tyranny of NVIDIA binary drivers? You got them. Make-kpkg rules. It rules.
I apologise for my ignorance. This may be in part because I haven't done any fur in renderers, and I keep my own fur managed in the renderer side. (Who the hell needs combs, anyway?)
And Blender's subsurfs are essentially NURBS that are manipulated as if they would be meshes. Sounds smilar...
::Nods::