PS2 coding is *very very tough* if you want to get something that's fast. To get the best performance out of the PS2, you have to synchronise a lot of different hardware - it took us 18 months to get a decent engine written, and we're a team of experienced game coders. You have to understand that hardware backwards, and be aware of the various hardware pitfalls that exist.
It's a very, very, very difficult beast to code without using middleware, and that's expensive stuff.
Welsh has pretty short words, in general. Llanfair PG (as it's generally known locally) was made up as a tourist attraction.
Welsh does look daunting, though, because it has more vowels than english (w and y are full vowels), but it's much more regular in pronounciation than English - it takes about half an hour to learn.
Incidentally, all the Celtic languages put the verb at the beginning of the sentence, essentially making them forward Polish languages:)
Bear in mind that we didn't have firearms that were *suddenly taken away*. Because we haven't been a frontier state for centuries, gun ownership has never been part of British life. That's why it's not such a big deal to us.
Ok, now that's all very well, but think about this scenario: you have an acquaintance who, although you don't realise it, is a paedophile. He erroneously sends you some encrypted kiddie porn, encrypted with someone else's public key. The authorities trace the email, knock you up in the middle of the night, and demand that you give them the private key to unencrypt this mail, as they have the right to do under the RIP act.
If you won't give them the key, and can't prove that you don't have it, you can go to jail. You also aren't allowed to tell *anyone* that you were asked for the key, so it's hard for you to get help.
First time I read about monofilament weapons was Larry Niven's "known space" stories, which had a weapon called a 'variable sword' - a monofilament enclosed in a stasis field, with a little red light to tell you where the far end was (the filament itself being too thin to see). I think it could extend from zero to several kilometers..
I have a vague recollection of someone trying to do this a few years ago - IIRC it tried to detect a certain percentage of um.. pink cylinders (limbs, usually) in certain configurations. Didn't work, of course.
Jim has cracked it to the same extent as Stein; we've been discussing it on the Voynich manuscript mailing list (now there's a cipher worthy of attention). Apparently, the first two sections are like a simple Quagmire III cipher (i.e. a Vigenere cipher with keyed alphabets). It's more difficult that normal because the two sections have different periods, and are run together with no seperator.
>I thought ENIAC was the first electronic >programmable computer. That's what they told me >in my CompSci classes.
It's a debatable point, and seems to hinge on the definition of "programmable". The ENIAC was programmable, but didn't store its program internally. Manchester Baby was the first "stored program" machine. For my money, that makes it the first computer. But then I would say that, being a Brit;)
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PS2 coding is *very very tough* if you want to get something that's fast. To get the best performance out of the PS2, you have to synchronise a lot of different hardware - it took us 18 months to get a decent engine written, and we're a team of experienced game coders. You have to understand that hardware backwards, and be aware of the various hardware pitfalls that exist.
It's a very, very, very difficult beast to code without using middleware, and that's expensive stuff.
Welsh has pretty short words, in general. Llanfair PG (as it's generally known locally) was made up as a tourist attraction.
:)
Welsh does look daunting, though, because it has more vowels than english (w and y are full vowels), but it's much more regular in pronounciation than English - it takes about half an hour to learn.
Incidentally, all the Celtic languages put the verb at the beginning of the sentence, essentially making them forward Polish languages
I know it's a troll, but..
Bear in mind that we didn't have firearms that were *suddenly taken away*. Because we haven't been a frontier state for centuries, gun ownership has never been part of British life. That's why it's not such a big deal to us.
Ok, now that's all very well, but think about this scenario: you have an acquaintance who, although you don't realise it, is a paedophile. He erroneously sends you some encrypted kiddie porn, encrypted with someone else's public key. The authorities trace the email, knock you up in the middle of the night, and demand that you give them the private key to unencrypt this mail, as they have the right to do under the RIP act.
If you won't give them the key, and can't prove that you don't have it, you can go to jail. You also aren't allowed to tell *anyone* that you were asked for the key, so it's hard for you to get help.
That's what's bad about this law.
First time I read about monofilament weapons was Larry Niven's "known space" stories, which had a weapon called a 'variable sword' - a monofilament enclosed in a stasis field, with a little red light to tell you where the far end was (the filament itself being too thin to see). I think it could extend from zero to several kilometers..
I have a vague recollection of someone trying to do this a few years ago - IIRC it tried to detect a certain percentage of um.. pink cylinders (limbs, usually) in certain configurations. Didn't work, of course.
Jim has cracked it to the same extent as Stein; we've been discussing it on the Voynich manuscript mailing list (now there's a cipher worthy of attention). Apparently, the first two sections are like a simple Quagmire III cipher (i.e. a Vigenere cipher with keyed alphabets). It's more difficult that normal because the two sections have different periods, and are run together with no seperator.
>I thought ENIAC was the first electronic
;)
>programmable computer. That's what they told me
>in my CompSci classes.
It's a debatable point, and seems to hinge on the definition of "programmable". The ENIAC was programmable, but didn't store its program internally. Manchester Baby was the first "stored program" machine. For my money, that makes it the first computer. But then I would say that, being a Brit