Reminds me of EE lab. Our lab TA told stories of how he used to charge up caps and then leave them on the bench, so when his TA would pick them up he'd get a huge shock. He also warned us not to reverse the polarity of caps, or they pop. Of course, we proceeded to find out what else would pop. Sadly, most components just get really hot.
Anyway, to cut to the chase, the moral of this story is if an EE student threatens to "pop a cap in your ass" beware of lab benches.
Right. Why defend the rights of someone else unless you personally are threatened. It's not like this is the "land of the free and the home of the brave" or something. It's not like our forefathers faught and died for anything important. Just lay low and don't complain until they come after you.
I think I once got an email from someone claiming to beat it without using an emulator, but they used a cheat I haven't put up yet. I've got alot of email from that site, and I don't think I have any from people claiming to beat it without cheating.
Also, last time I checked, I am the only site with maps to the game, and my site has been up since the late 90's. I believe the 2600 Connection (dead tree newletter) had maps long ago, but I have yet to order a back issue.
I didn't really do a ROM hack, more of a RAM hack. I don't know what rgvc is.
And if you don't want your controls reversed, just don't let the bad guys blow up your planet:)
'A two-word file in Word 2002, for example, requires 20 Kbytes. "That's 20 Kbytes, five times the amount of (ROM) space developers had to work with in the 2600.'
Initially, games were 4KB. But there were also 8KB games (I believe on a single ROM, but I may be wrong) and with an extra chip in the cartridge to handle addressing games of 16KB could be squeezed in.
For instance, Solaris, which was the best gane ever. http://skintigh.tripod.com/atari/solaris.html
Less related: there were cartridges that I assume had 64 4KB roms. The first was a menu to select which of the games to play. I also assume this was done without permission of the copyright holders. Then there were tape drives...
Ha! The BBB is completely useless. This is what they do: 1) collect money from businesses 2) make plaques for businesses 3) purge files of complaints
I filed a report on a car dealer. The BBB closed the report. Yes, that's it. No attempt to contact me, didn't even forward my complaint to the dealer. Nothing at all. Just "closed, thanks for writing."
Eventually I involved Nissan national and threatened to sue, and that got my complaint resolved. I also wrote some great Epinoins about it: http://www.epinions.com/auto-topic-Autos-Nissan-Bu ying_Guides-Best_Dealer_Options_If_You_re_Buying-A _Nissan
The BBB is nothing more than a speed bump to discourage consumers from complaining.
I wish I had gone to Harvard, I could have slept all day and received all A's.
As it was, I worked my ass off at WPI and still got a few C's. WPI uses A/B/C/NR where NR is a failing grade that does not appear on your transcript (in theory to let you experiment with classes outside your field, and "punt" them (fail) if you sucked, or something). Thus, if you failed all your classes you received a blank report card - a "snowflake." Many a student snowflaked. I only knew one person who got all A's.
Even in grad classed our teachers had no fear of handing out C's. The majority of my cryptography class got C's, many failed, more than got A's (you get F's in grad school, not NR's). I got an A:P.
A relative of mine, a psychology teacher at a New England school, insists everybody inflates grades, thus everybody has too or students wont attend your class. This seems to me like herd mentality, or peer presure, or circular reasoning, and many other things that ought to make a psychologist speak out. I mentioned my school doesn't seem to inflate grades, especially in crypto, but my data was dismissed as "everybody does it" and crypto was probably a "weeder course."
Oh well.
I may be the victim of my own apathy, but who knows
I have the Palm OS4 NR70V, and I LOVE it. I use the camera all the time, even though it's only web-cam quality, because it is so much fun. It's amazing what you take a picture of when you can do it at any time, for free. Like the psychotic SUV I took a picture of while I was driving.
(To the people who ask what it is useful for in a PDA, you can have thumbnails of people in your address book, so there, pbbbbt)
Anyway, I chose my Clie over the Palm OS5 NX70V mainly because of the limited memory. Only 11 Megs are usable in the NX70V, and OS5 apps are much larger than OS4 apps, so effectivly there is even less room. And considering it's camera takes larger pictures, 11MB really is squat.
Now they have a 2MP camera on an 11MB (MAX) PDA? You might have room for one picture once you put your games on it.
I suppose you can always buy an inflated-priced memory stick after spending $800 on the PDA...
"Mr. Blaze suggested that creating a fake master key could also be made more difficult by using locks for which key blanks are difficult to get, though even those blanks can be bought in many hardware stores and through the Internet."
If I were him, and I had no emotions, and were a true altruist, and I had lots of free time and money, I would agree.
But if I were him, and I had emotions, and I wasn't rich, I'd be really pissed off.
I was involved in a project that were fun, really did me no good but kinda helped others, and cost me a little. It was then turned on it's head by the people I was helping. This: a) made it not fun b) made me not want to help the people who were doing this c) made it seem rediculous that I was spending my time and money (albiet very little) to help them
a) is what killed it for me. I assume that's what killed it for him, too.
I also assume he will hand off the list to someone else once he simmers down.
What f'ing moron's modded that up? As it is an exact copy of an earlier post, I'll paste an exact copy of the earlier reply: ---
>Remove the logo, and change the names to ``Computer Accessory Cards" or something else not copyrighted.
Re:What's the problem? (Score:5, Insightful) by boinger (4618) on Thursday January 16, @03:31PM (#5097106) (http://fuck-you.org/)
Because it still supports them.
His work helped guide people to use PCI. He spent thousands of dollars out of his own pocket for the love of a product. The owners of that product thanked him for 6 years of work by kicking him in the nuts.
So, maybe you like taking it over a barrel like that, but he doesn't (nor would I).
Are geeks buying these low-end computers, or average people who want different, or Wal-mart customers who don't read the fine print and think they are buying something else?
I admit I know very little about Verilog, but VHDL (a very similar Hardware Definition Language) tools are extremely expensive. However, you don't "compile" VHDL into hardware, you synthesize and P&R it, and if you use the wrong word people stare at you blankly and pretend they don't know what you mean.
A compiler (compilers are used ONLY in simulation and are otherwise useless) and simulator like Modeltech costs $1000 for a crippled version, about $4000 for a complete version. You really can't work without these tools.
Synplify Pro, a logic synthesizer, costs $48,000 (not including support) but a crippled version can be bought at a bargain for a little under $20,000 (though I heard rumor of someone selling it for less than $10,000).
The synthesized logic then has to be mapped, places and routed, and turned into a binary. P&R tools like Xilinx ISE (slogan: "All the speed you need" puh-lease) cost around either $3,000 or $6,000, I don't remeber which at the moment.
I know there are open source tools, but they aren't taken seriously by the people I've worked with (which honestly doesn't mean that much...).
Maybe Verilog tools are cheaper, but I was under the impression that both languages are extremely similar, the differnce being Verilog looks like the chicken-scratch language C and VHDL looks like the elegant and readable Pascal.;)
Also, VHDL is part of my favorite acronym: VITAL, where the V stands for VHDL, where the V stands for VHSIC, (which stands for Very High Speed Integrated Circuit, I think)
Wouldn't that increase the salinity of the water, which might be bad for sea life, but could also alter currents if the denser water sank?
Diesel vs. "Alternative fuels"
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239 MPG Car
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You guys jumping down the editor's throat don't have all your facts.
Yes, this car will run on regular diesel, just like a car will run on regular (leaded) gas. Both are Bad Things.
"Regular" diesel releases huge amounts of sulfer dixoide. That's bad for lots of things, for instance, life. It's also a fossil fuel so it increases the amount of CO2 in the air.
Un-sulfered diesel was set to be the standard in a year. But even though the 18-wheeler truck industry had 20 years to prepare for this, they convinced (read "bought") Bush that they needed more time and Bush pushed the date back a few years.
Biodiesel is renewable and sulpher free. It als ocosts about twice what regular diesel costs.
I'm sure you were thinking bigger than this, but just about everyone who owns an Archos MP3 player and who has tried the Rockbox OS has switched to it.
Slashdot covered is a while ago: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/04/001825 9&mode=thread&tid=100
The Rockbox OS replaces the standard OS on the MP3 player. It's completely open source, and yes it's completely legal, too.
Version 1.4 is out now. Except for recording functions that are due in the next version (and may already work in the daily builds) and a few file functions, Rockbox does everything the shipped OS does, and does it better, and does alot more. Rockbox supports threading, where the Archos OS freezes to think all the time. Rockbox supports text files and new fonts and many languages. Archos OS supports 1 font and 1 language and no text files. Rockbox also allows one to customize the while-playing screen to display any and all info about the song. Rockbox is also much better at handling play lists and randomizing them. The one time I tried to make a playlist with the Archos OS my MP3 player froze for over an hour.
As much as I agree with you, I own TWO laser printers with parallel cables. And I only own 2 printers. As for my serial connection, I've used it with my UPS and with my Handspring when my wife left the USB cradle on the opposite side of the country.
As for replacing them with other connections, I bet that would increase the cost of mobos. Doesn't firewire cost $1 per chip in royalties alone?
It will die out, but things take time. Heck, my parents are still using a computer with one of those "overdrive" thingies in it.
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Looks like I moved to Texas just in time!
CnC Generals just came out!!!
I'm sure my woman will understand.
is the caption under the picture: "busted cap."
Reminds me of EE lab. Our lab TA told stories of how he used to charge up caps and then leave them on the bench, so when his TA would pick them up he'd get a huge shock. He also warned us not to reverse the polarity of caps, or they pop. Of course, we proceeded to find out what else would pop. Sadly, most components just get really hot.
Anyway, to cut to the chase, the moral of this story is if an EE student threatens to "pop a cap in your ass" beware of lab benches.
Right. Why defend the rights of someone else unless you personally are threatened. It's not like this is the "land of the free and the home of the brave" or something. It's not like our forefathers faught and died for anything important. Just lay low and don't complain until they come after you.
I think there's a poem about that.
You can't just say that and be annonymous!
:)
I think I once got an email from someone claiming to beat it without using an emulator, but they used a cheat I haven't put up yet. I've got alot of email from that site, and I don't think I have any from people claiming to beat it without cheating.
Also, last time I checked, I am the only site with maps to the game, and my site has been up since the late 90's. I believe the 2600 Connection (dead tree newletter) had maps long ago, but I have yet to order a back issue.
I didn't really do a ROM hack, more of a RAM hack. I don't know what rgvc is.
And if you don't want your controls reversed, just don't let the bad guys blow up your planet
'A two-word file in Word 2002, for example, requires 20 Kbytes. "That's 20 Kbytes, five times the amount of (ROM) space developers had to work with in the 2600.'
Initially, games were 4KB. But there were also 8KB games (I believe on a single ROM, but I may be wrong) and with an extra chip in the cartridge to handle addressing games of 16KB could be squeezed in.
For instance, Solaris, which was the best gane ever. http://skintigh.tripod.com/atari/solaris.html
Less related: there were cartridges that I assume had 64 4KB roms. The first was a menu to select which of the games to play. I also assume this was done without permission of the copyright holders. Then there were tape drives...
Ha! The BBB is completely useless. This is what they do:
u ying_Guides-Best_Dealer_Options_If_You_re_Buying-A _Nissan
1) collect money from businesses
2) make plaques for businesses
3) purge files of complaints
I filed a report on a car dealer. The BBB closed the report. Yes, that's it. No attempt to contact me, didn't even forward my complaint to the dealer. Nothing at all. Just "closed, thanks for writing."
Eventually I involved Nissan national and threatened to sue, and that got my complaint resolved. I also wrote some great Epinoins about it: http://www.epinions.com/auto-topic-Autos-Nissan-B
The BBB is nothing more than a speed bump to discourage consumers from complaining.
I wish I had gone to Harvard, I could have slept all day and received all A's.
:P.
As it was, I worked my ass off at WPI and still got a few C's. WPI uses A/B/C/NR where NR is a failing grade that does not appear on your transcript (in theory to let you experiment with classes outside your field, and "punt" them (fail) if you sucked, or something). Thus, if you failed all your classes you received a blank report card - a "snowflake." Many a student snowflaked. I only knew one person who got all A's.
Even in grad classed our teachers had no fear of handing out C's. The majority of my cryptography class got C's, many failed, more than got A's (you get F's in grad school, not NR's). I got an A
A relative of mine, a psychology teacher at a New England school, insists everybody inflates grades, thus everybody has too or students wont attend your class. This seems to me like herd mentality, or peer presure, or circular reasoning, and many other things that ought to make a psychologist speak out. I mentioned my school doesn't seem to inflate grades, especially in crypto, but my data was dismissed as "everybody does it" and crypto was probably a "weeder course."
Oh well.
I may be the victim of my own apathy, but who knows
I have the Palm OS4 NR70V, and I LOVE it. I use the camera all the time, even though it's only web-cam quality, because it is so much fun. It's amazing what you take a picture of when you can do it at any time, for free. Like the psychotic SUV I took a picture of while I was driving.
(To the people who ask what it is useful for in a PDA, you can have thumbnails of people in your address book, so there, pbbbbt)
Anyway, I chose my Clie over the Palm OS5 NX70V mainly because of the limited memory. Only 11 Megs are usable in the NX70V, and OS5 apps are much larger than OS4 apps, so effectivly there is even less room. And considering it's camera takes larger pictures, 11MB really is squat.
Now they have a 2MP camera on an 11MB (MAX) PDA? You might have room for one picture once you put your games on it.
I suppose you can always buy an inflated-priced memory stick after spending $800 on the PDA...
"Mr. Blaze suggested that creating a fake master key could also be made more difficult by using locks for which key blanks are difficult to get, though even those blanks can be bought in many hardware stores and through the Internet."
That'll stop the "terrorists."
If I were him, and I had no emotions, and were a true altruist, and I had lots of free time and money, I would agree.
But if I were him, and I had emotions, and I wasn't rich, I'd be really pissed off.
I was involved in a project that were fun, really did me no good but kinda helped others, and cost me a little. It was then turned on it's head by the people I was helping. This:
a) made it not fun
b) made me not want to help the people who were doing this
c) made it seem rediculous that I was spending my time and money (albiet very little) to help them
a) is what killed it for me. I assume that's what killed it for him, too.
I also assume he will hand off the list to someone else once he simmers down.
What f'ing moron's modded that up? As it is an exact copy of an earlier post, I'll paste an exact copy of the earlier reply:
---
>Remove the logo, and change the names to ``Computer Accessory Cards" or something else not copyrighted.
Re:What's the problem? (Score:5, Insightful)
by boinger (4618) on Thursday January 16, @03:31PM (#5097106)
(http://fuck-you.org/)
Because it still supports them.
His work helped guide people to use PCI. He spent thousands of dollars out of his own pocket for the love of a product. The owners of that product thanked him for 6 years of work by kicking him in the nuts.
So, maybe you like taking it over a barrel like that, but he doesn't (nor would I).
deserve any. It is yet another clone of a great game from the early 90's. There is no innovation in snood. It's not even a great clone.
It's like a tetris clone, but one player, and with confusing animated pieces. Intereting, but nothing worth writing home, or blog, about.
My cpu fan was unbelievably noisy. So, I replaced the 60mm noise maker with an 28db 80mm fan and a 80mm:60mm funnel (all of which I found at CompUSA).
The bigger fan is almost silent and blows a lot more air than the little fan did. It also has cute little blue LEDs spinning in it.
Now the nosiest fan in my box is the power supply, which is soon to be replaced by a near-silent Antec Truesomething powersupply.
Sheesh.
Are geeks buying these low-end computers, or average people who want different, or Wal-mart customers who don't read the fine print and think they are buying something else?
Maybe they would make a good PVR...
I think it does, but I've also used it to mean everything.
I just checked my VHDL books and none of them have one mention of the word "compile," but also don't use any other word to describe the process.
"HDL Chip Design" does use "compile" for both languages, but I was never impressed with that book.
Does Verilog use synthesis? I assume so...
This is bugging me now. I'll figure this out, even if it starts a war on usenet.
Opps, I forgot you answered that question already. I should have asked "how did you simulate your design?"
Also, I am very interested in anything Xilinx gives away free. What's the catch? Do they have the same deal with VHDL tools?
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Sheesh, no reason to get bitchy. Maybe the word is "configure?" Maybe there isn't one word for all of that. How about "shirley."
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That link is broken. Does that include all tools, including simulation?
Not that I know of, but try the forums at funmp3players.com
unless there is a way to "compile" it.
;)
I admit I know very little about Verilog, but VHDL (a very similar Hardware Definition Language) tools are extremely expensive. However, you don't "compile" VHDL into hardware, you synthesize and P&R it, and if you use the wrong word people stare at you blankly and pretend they don't know what you mean.
A compiler (compilers are used ONLY in simulation and are otherwise useless) and simulator like Modeltech costs $1000 for a crippled version, about $4000 for a complete version. You really can't work without these tools.
Synplify Pro, a logic synthesizer, costs $48,000 (not including support) but a crippled version can be bought at a bargain for a little under $20,000 (though I heard rumor of someone selling it for less than $10,000).
The synthesized logic then has to be mapped, places and routed, and turned into a binary. P&R tools like Xilinx ISE (slogan: "All the speed you need" puh-lease) cost around either $3,000 or $6,000, I don't remeber which at the moment.
I know there are open source tools, but they aren't taken seriously by the people I've worked with (which honestly doesn't mean that much...).
Maybe Verilog tools are cheaper, but I was under the impression that both languages are extremely similar, the differnce being Verilog looks like the chicken-scratch language C and VHDL looks like the elegant and readable Pascal.
Also, VHDL is part of my favorite acronym:
VITAL, where the V stands for VHDL, where the V stands for VHSIC, (which stands for Very High Speed Integrated Circuit, I think)
Wouldn't that increase the salinity of the water, which might be bad for sea life, but could also alter currents if the denser water sank?
You guys jumping down the editor's throat don't have all your facts.
Yes, this car will run on regular diesel, just like a car will run on regular (leaded) gas. Both are Bad Things.
"Regular" diesel releases huge amounts of sulfer dixoide. That's bad for lots of things, for instance, life. It's also a fossil fuel so it increases the amount of CO2 in the air.
Un-sulfered diesel was set to be the standard in a year. But even though the 18-wheeler truck industry had 20 years to prepare for this, they convinced (read "bought") Bush that they needed more time and Bush pushed the date back a few years.
Biodiesel is renewable and sulpher free. It als ocosts about twice what regular diesel costs.
I'm sure you were thinking bigger than this, but just about everyone who owns an Archos MP3 player and who has tried the Rockbox OS has switched to it.
5 9&mode=thread&tid=100
Slashdot covered is a while ago: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/04/00182
The Rockbox OS replaces the standard OS on the MP3 player. It's completely open source, and yes it's completely legal, too.
Version 1.4 is out now. Except for recording functions that are due in the next version (and may already work in the daily builds) and a few file functions, Rockbox does everything the shipped OS does, and does it better, and does alot more. Rockbox supports threading, where the Archos OS freezes to think all the time. Rockbox supports text files and new fonts and many languages. Archos OS supports 1 font and 1 language and no text files. Rockbox also allows one to customize the while-playing screen to display any and all info about the song. Rockbox is also much better at handling play lists and randomizing them. The one time I tried to make a playlist with the Archos OS my MP3 player froze for over an hour.
As much as I agree with you, I own TWO laser printers with parallel cables. And I only own 2 printers. As for my serial connection, I've used it with my UPS and with my Handspring when my wife left the USB cradle on the opposite side of the country.
As for replacing them with other connections, I bet that would increase the cost of mobos. Doesn't firewire cost $1 per chip in royalties alone?
It will die out, but things take time. Heck, my parents are still using a computer with one of those "overdrive" thingies in it.
Not everyone is a krad hax0r.