huh, using an assembler means being spoon-fed memory addressing modes. if you want to get to the metal you're going to have to write machine code, in hex, without some babysitter environment trying to stop you making mistakes.
a couple of semesters of that ought to separate the men from the boys.
Yeah, my first reaction was smalltalk; plenty of oo concepts with minimal interface, compiler and declaration hurdles.
Coincidentally, the NY Times today reports that Alan Kay has just left Disney to develop Squeak as an educational language. Actually he might have been pushed to leave, what with Disney wanting to lay off people to bump up its stock.
The whole thing about trying to do the right thing by your children reminds me of the time my father caught me smoking a cigarette. I was nine years old at the time. He didn't freak out, or even try to stop me; instead, he sat me down at the kitchen table, put a full pack of marlboro in front of me and insisted that if i was going to smoke, i ought to do it properly. He had me smoke every cigarette in the packet - i think i tossed my cookies after about ten cigarettes. That was his way of teaching me to respect myself.
The very first PowerMacs (NuBus based) used instruction-by-instruction emulation to run all the old 68K Mac code, including some parts of the OS that were still 68K.
It was even cooler than that; the 68k emu used 68k toolbox calls which it would, of course, interpret for itself. it was a recursive emulator.
close, but no cigar. i just found this story from The (UK) Guardian:
"Nato deliberately bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade during the war in Kosovo after discovering it was being used to transmit Yugoslav army communications. [...]Why the Chinese were prepared to help Milosevic is a more murky question. One possible explanation is that the Chinese lack Stealth technology, and the Yugoslavs, having shot down a Stealth fighter in the early days of the air campaign, were in a good position to trade."
With the RGB filter a spot will either reflect Red, Green or Blue light, or it will not reflect at all, and the colour will be formed by additive lighting, rather than subtractive absorbtion.
That's not correct. You can't have an additive colorspace with just reflected light. It's like trying to mix red green and blue paints to get white. If there's no emitted light from the display then it has to be subtractive.
who does he think folks worry more about their servers getting hit by?
Sir, security breach in sector 3!
It's a crusty with a dog on a piece of string.
Oh my God! Raise the blast shields!
He's got a spliff! He's going to smoke it!
God help us.
Although it sounds like a low-budget excuse for a BBC luvvies party (ooh darling you were fabulous as that dalek etc.), i'm pleased to hear this.
There was a Blake's 7 radio-only episode a few years back on BBC done in a similar vein. It was, of course, excellent listening.
There's something really neat about science fiction on radio; if you remember the Radio4 version of Foundation or the original Hitchhiker's Guide you know what i mean.
Now what would be cool would be a season of Star Trek: TNG episodes on radio. Just think: a million unused scripts, virtually no production costs compared to TV, and finally, believable alien races.
One of the clips showed a weird multi-segmented bug with stilt-like legs, very similar to one of the weird fossils in the burgess shale. There's a Richard Dawkins book all about it called Wonderful Life.
Tecnofile reports: Netscape, the creator of the interweb and famous for its Netscape Explorer browser today effectively reported victory in the so-called "browsing wars" and will therefore no longer need to offer such software to the public. According to well-known sauces, Netscape has "re-focussed its open-ended online strategy with a blue-skies oriented total bravery type approach. Goals-fixated rigid thinking has been replaced with new economy style whiteboarding with a resultant upswing in morale and perceptions among those not reassigned to uncompensated voluntary positions. The future is bright."
Mozilla will bring more if Fizzilla (the Carbon Mac OS X one) and the core system improve AND Mac and Linux both gain marketshare... both reasonable assumptions.
You know why Mozilla will never get a good fraction of Mac users? interface-wise it looks like third-rate shareware. For better or for worse, Mac people hate that.
yeah, it makes sense if you don't think about it. the actual cells of the eye are evolved to try to cope with the way that nerves lead out of the eye. to argue that these adaptations are a good reason for the way the nerves are is simply irrational; it's putting the cart before the horse.
c'mon these are people who actually believe that God created fossilized dinosaur remains to test our faith in creation.
"If you think about how God would design a chip, obviously God would use 45 angles," said Kurt Keutzer, professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of California at Berkeley.
Yeah, but this is the same God who designed our lousy eyeballs with the nerves on the inside, giving us a blind spot. And what about teeth? What crazy design idea was that?
Interesting how the paranoia usually attached to things like this has dissipated, which, in my opinion, is a good thing. it's a cliche, but we do live in a free society and the price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
so let's remember our real enemy and their stupid berets and garlic-flavored frogs' legs and general cowardice.
downloading a 15fps divx in 67 340k segments? why bother, it'll only spoil it. i used to think that The Matrix was crap (gasp!) because the first three times i saw it was on the little lcd screens on planes - and that's better quality than you're going to get with divx. you can't just keep shedding quality and think that it doesn't make any difference.
i used to freelance on games magazines in London and i can tell you that there absolutely and positively was never a good review written for a crappy game just because the game's publisher bought lots of advertising in the magazine. it never happened.
it really didn't! why are you all still looking at me?
you know, one thing i'd like to do, when i'm retired and i have a cabin with a hammock overlooking the gulf of thailand, when it's too early for mai tais and too late for naked volleyball, is to sit down with a good laptop and start to develop a really cool OS.
ok, that's something we'd all like to do (possibly with the exception of developing the cool OS), but i'm thinking of something that is different to stuff that already exists; something that is a natural way for computers to work. i'm thinking of an OS where there is no compiler, something more like forth going on. something where, if you wanted, you could click right down to the basics. don't tell me that linux does just that, because it's still going through a compiler and that black box thing separates me from the workings of the OS just like windows or mac (or whatever) apis.
oops, cocktails with client then posting, bad mistake!
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But how can you be certain?
"real" horses - or possibly dinosaurs - to be inserted under the cast
killer rabbit attack scene to feature stomach-churningly realistic dismemberment effects
holy hand grenade explosion to be awesome Armageddon-style blast
camelot to be surrounded by little alien creatures and disobedient banthas
black knight scene to feature lightsabres
chapman scenes to be digitally completed using archive footage of chapman from this movie
If Feed and Suck merged they could become SeedFuck which sounds like it could be really successful online, maybe as a competitor to Nerve .
a couple of semesters of that ought to separate the men from the boys.
Coincidentally, the NY Times today reports that Alan Kay has just left Disney to develop Squeak as an educational language. Actually he might have been pushed to leave, what with Disney wanting to lay off people to bump up its stock.
The whole thing about trying to do the right thing by your children reminds me of the time my father caught me smoking a cigarette. I was nine years old at the time. He didn't freak out, or even try to stop me; instead, he sat me down at the kitchen table, put a full pack of marlboro in front of me and insisted that if i was going to smoke, i ought to do it properly. He had me smoke every cigarette in the packet - i think i tossed my cookies after about ten cigarettes. That was his way of teaching me to respect myself.
Mind you, i'm on two packs a day now.
Jeez, just imagine 1980s moron-in-a-suit-with-pagemaker DTP design crimes, but everywhere!
It was even cooler than that; the 68k emu used 68k toolbox calls which it would, of course, interpret for itself. it was a recursive emulator.
"Nato deliberately bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade during the war in Kosovo after discovering it was being used to transmit Yugoslav army communications. [...]Why the Chinese were prepared to help Milosevic is a more murky question. One possible explanation is that the Chinese lack Stealth technology, and the Yugoslavs, having shot down a Stealth fighter in the early days of the air campaign, were in a good position to trade."
That's not correct. You can't have an additive colorspace with just reflected light. It's like trying to mix red green and blue paints to get white. If there's no emitted light from the display then it has to be subtractive.
This is neat, but if it's not backlit like an LCD, wouldn't a CMYK colorspace work better? After all, you don't print in RGB.
Sir, security breach in sector 3!
It's a crusty with a dog on a piece of string.
Oh my God! Raise the blast shields!
He's got a spliff! He's going to smoke it!
God help us.
There was a Blake's 7 radio-only episode a few years back on BBC done in a similar vein. It was, of course, excellent listening.
There's something really neat about science fiction on radio; if you remember the Radio4 version of Foundation or the original Hitchhiker's Guide you know what i mean.
Now what would be cool would be a season of Star Trek: TNG episodes on radio. Just think: a million unused scripts, virtually no production costs compared to TV, and finally, believable alien races.
(I wonder what Dawkins thinks about the movie).
Tecnofile reports: Netscape, the creator of the interweb and famous for its Netscape Explorer browser today effectively reported victory in the so-called "browsing wars" and will therefore no longer need to offer such software to the public. According to well-known sauces, Netscape has "re-focussed its open-ended online strategy with a blue-skies oriented total bravery type approach. Goals-fixated rigid thinking has been replaced with new economy style whiteboarding with a resultant upswing in morale and perceptions among those not reassigned to uncompensated voluntary positions. The future is bright."
You know why Mozilla will never get a good fraction of Mac users? interface-wise it looks like third-rate shareware. For better or for worse, Mac people hate that.
c'mon these are people who actually believe that God created fossilized dinosaur remains to test our faith in creation.
Yeah, but this is the same God who designed our lousy eyeballs with the nerves on the inside, giving us a blind spot. And what about teeth? What crazy design idea was that?
Interesting how the paranoia usually attached to things like this has dissipated, which, in my opinion, is a good thing. it's a cliche, but we do live in a free society and the price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
so let's remember our real enemy and their stupid berets and garlic-flavored frogs' legs and general cowardice.
downloading a 15fps divx in 67 340k segments? why bother, it'll only spoil it. i used to think that The Matrix was crap (gasp!) because the first three times i saw it was on the little lcd screens on planes - and that's better quality than you're going to get with divx. you can't just keep shedding quality and think that it doesn't make any difference.
i wonder what the security at MIT is like. are they geared up to deal with time-travelling rebel humans and heavily-armed robots from the future?
it would be simple good sense for them to at least have a plan, or some big sliding steel doors or something. and a helicopter with machine guns.
i used to freelance on games magazines in London and i can tell you that there absolutely and positively was never a good review written for a crappy game just because the game's publisher bought lots of advertising in the magazine. it never happened.
it really didn't! why are you all still looking at me?
Civil unrest in Hartford! Mayor flees in panic!
i don't quite get your point. are you saying bsd has a positive outlook or not?
you know, one thing i'd like to do, when i'm retired and i have a cabin with a hammock overlooking the gulf of thailand, when it's too early for mai tais and too late for naked volleyball, is to sit down with a good laptop and start to develop a really cool OS.
ok, that's something we'd all like to do (possibly with the exception of developing the cool OS), but i'm thinking of something that is different to stuff that already exists; something that is a natural way for computers to work. i'm thinking of an OS where there is no compiler, something more like forth going on. something where, if you wanted, you could click right down to the basics. don't tell me that linux does just that, because it's still going through a compiler and that black box thing separates me from the workings of the OS just like windows or mac (or whatever) apis.
oops, cocktails with client then posting, bad mistake!