What fucking crackhead came up with the idea of using hardware interrupts to implement BIOS calls?!!! (Oh, that's right, those fucking x86 crackheads!)
How do other architectures handle these? I'm only familiar with x86 assembly myself.
Anyway, who thought 8 hardware interrupts were enough? The cascaded PIC is not the best design possible either. Yet, most modern computers still have this basic design, so it can't be all bad, can it?
Erm, int 21h (used for file access, tsr, and memory allocation) is *not* a bios call. (try an int 21h call in the bootsector, it's just an iret if I recall correctly). Int 13h (disk access) *is* a BIOS call, but doesn't let you write a file, only directly to disk, which will fsck up your file system (pun intended) if you're not REALLY careful.
About those games: those were basically OS-less games. The only thing they used the bios for was to switch video mode, read data from disk (with some custom filesystem) and get input.
It was a completely "userspace" application.
If that's what you call userspace, then LiLo is a userspace application too. <FALLACY TYPE="APPEAL TO AUTHORITY">Believe me, I've debugged more than enough bios and dos interrupts to know what I'm talking about.</FALLACY>
Really? So what BIOS call allocates memory for me? Or writes files to disk? Or lets my program go TSR? Or lets me write "$" terminated strings to screen? (ok forget that one. Whoever came up with THAT idea in the first place?)
The BIOS only provides easy access to some default hardware like the screen and the harddisk, but it has no knowledge at all about the filesystem or things like that. That's what io.sys does.
Lindows isn't (completely) open source. Anyway, that's what "etc." stands for. You know which ones I mean.
My point is that you cannot (or should not) claim rights to a brandname like Mozilla, when it's clearly a reference to another brandname. (Hell, even the logo shows some Godzilla-like creature.)
I have no sympathy for the current lawsuit against Mozilla, just like I wouldn't have any sympathy for a lawsuit by the mozilla group against anyone who calls himself Mozilla Certified Professional or whatever.
This might mean open source projects shouldn't be given ripoff names like Mozilla, ScummVM, Gaim, Licq, etc. Rebuilding functionality of closed source applications is fine, but you might just be a bit more creative and give it a REAL name.
First Great Eastern say they decided to publish the picture "out of sheer frustration" in an attempt to stop teenagers climbing onto the tracks.
Yeah that's smart, show a picture of a guy doing something incredibly dangerous and stupid, and getting away with it. Now they made it into a sport. (Let's call it platformhumping)
You: I'd like to buy that car. Cardealer: Ok, excellent choice, that'll be 50 dollar. You: What? Why is it so cheap? What's wrong with it? Cardealer: Nothing, it's perfectly ok. Nothing wrong with it. First owner, has had regular checkups, handles like a dream, 50 bucks. You: Erm thanks, I'll go somewhere else.
think again: What he's saying is that factoring is NOT NP complete. Since the original post claimed quantum computers can solve NP complete problems in polynomial time, a paper about factoring has nothing to do with this.
yeah and the sound at the beginning of that level is the text "To win the game you must kill me, John Romero" backwards.
I remember playing Doom in the middle of the night, totally drunk. It took me a while to realize that trying to look around corners by moving your head doesn't work.
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Feel free to replace "Microsoft" with any software firm that has ever existed. All softare has bugs. Get over it.
What fucking crackhead came up with the idea of using hardware interrupts to implement BIOS calls?!!! (Oh, that's right, those fucking x86 crackheads!)
How do other architectures handle these? I'm only familiar with x86 assembly myself.
Anyway, who thought 8 hardware interrupts were enough? The cascaded PIC is not the best design possible either. Yet, most modern computers still have this basic design, so it can't be all bad, can it?
Erm, int 21h (used for file access, tsr, and memory allocation) is *not* a bios call. (try an int 21h call in the bootsector, it's just an iret if I recall correctly). Int 13h (disk access) *is* a BIOS call, but doesn't let you write a file, only directly to disk, which will fsck up your file system (pun intended) if you're not REALLY careful.
About those games: those were basically OS-less games. The only thing they used the bios for was to switch video mode, read data from disk (with some custom filesystem) and get input.
It was a completely "userspace" application.
If that's what you call userspace, then LiLo is a userspace application too. <FALLACY TYPE="APPEAL TO AUTHORITY">Believe me, I've debugged more than enough bios and dos interrupts to know what I'm talking about.</FALLACY>
DOS was nothing more than a shell
Really? So what BIOS call allocates memory for me? Or writes files to disk? Or lets my program go TSR? Or lets me write "$" terminated strings to screen? (ok forget that one. Whoever came up with THAT idea in the first place?)
The BIOS only provides easy access to some default hardware like the screen and the harddisk, but it has no knowledge at all about the filesystem or things like that. That's what io.sys does.
I'm ashamed to ask, but too lasy to look it up, but what does "STA" do? Is that one of those BCD operations?
Is there a webmaster? Can't be getting paid much.
Yes, ofcourse it would take him several hours of unpaid labour to whip up that website.
Can't imagine why anyone would do that.
Kind of like Cameron's Titanic
(spoiler alert: The ship sinks)...
yeah, but who would've thought the annoying little brat would die instead of the chubby chick?
all of you who immediatly started their Kazaa/Gnucleus/whatever to find it.
What are you saying, I should cut back on coke too?
Sorry about that, I should cut back on caffeine
is bitching about spelling.
That would be this one. (ok, it's not a lawsuit yet, but it's coming. You get the picture.)
No, you should have paid royalties years ago.
Anyway, all I use mp3 for is stealing music, what do I care if I stole the player too?
Well, considering the recent excitement about old LucasArts games, it's not very obscure.
:p
Anyway, I played that game so often I keep hearing the dialogue over and over again in my head
Lindows isn't (completely) open source. Anyway, that's what "etc." stands for. You know which ones I mean.
My point is that you cannot (or should not) claim rights to a brandname like Mozilla, when it's clearly a reference to another brandname. (Hell, even the logo shows some Godzilla-like creature.)
I have no sympathy for the current lawsuit against Mozilla, just like I wouldn't have any sympathy for a lawsuit by the mozilla group against anyone who calls himself Mozilla Certified Professional or whatever.
This might mean open source projects shouldn't be given ripoff names like Mozilla, ScummVM, Gaim, Licq, etc. Rebuilding functionality of closed source applications is fine, but you might just be a bit more creative and give it a REAL name.
First Great Eastern say they decided to publish the picture "out of sheer frustration" in an attempt to stop teenagers climbing onto the tracks.
Yeah that's smart, show a picture of a guy doing something incredibly dangerous and stupid, and getting away with it. Now they made it into a sport. (Let's call it platformhumping)
Better show them this too.
That was hilarious. Thank you.
If I think it sounds better, it sounds better (well, to me at least.) So why don't other encoders boost the volume if that makes it sound better?
You: I'd like to buy that car.
Cardealer: Ok, excellent choice, that'll be 50 dollar.
You: What? Why is it so cheap? What's wrong with it?
Cardealer: Nothing, it's perfectly ok. Nothing wrong with it. First owner, has had regular checkups, handles like a dream, 50 bucks.
You: Erm thanks, I'll go somewhere else.
Well moderated! this is the mother of all flamebaits.
maybe your grammar is too good.
think again: What he's saying is that factoring is NOT NP complete. Since the original post claimed quantum computers can solve NP complete problems in polynomial time, a paper about factoring has nothing to do with this.
That's silly, if it doesn't, this is NOT the way to prove that. It can only prove if a number is not in the sequence.
Then again, there are plenty of people who consider it fun to learn 10000+ digits of pi. Now THAT will impress the chicks.
yeah and the sound at the beginning of that level is the text "To win the game you must kill me, John Romero" backwards.
I remember playing Doom in the middle of the night, totally drunk. It took me a while to realize that trying to look around corners by moving your head doesn't work.