I learned assembly at age 14. That was on the Amiga writing intros for warez. Writing stuff that was visual was a great way to start. Thinking back, understanding machine code opened the door to every other language.
MC680x0 assembly is beautiful though, unlike x86 which is sex with barbed wire.
I'm so sick of this tag showing up under each microsoft article. we're at 3 comments posted, and already the tag exists.
either installed by an alliance of hardcore slashdotters, or by the admins themselves. the preferences bug prevents hiding tags. it feeds the conspiracy theorist in me.
either way, it smacks of the behaviour politicians employ just before losing an election.
It's not just China's pollution. It's the world's pollution. We consume the product, and we should be responsible for the process waste.
Some portion of the purchase price should be allocated to r&d for minimising process waste. Whether taxed by manufacturers directly, or by participating governments.
I was on an ocean cruise recently, and a little girl was lost... Ship's Security were looking for her.
I later heard she had been found, and as I walked back to my cabin I thought of this software.
Every corridor of the ship has cameras.
The parent could recall the last time she was with the child. An operator could then fly through a 3d map of the ship, from that point in time, with recorded video overlaid, following the girl in fast-forward until the current time was reached.
The flying would be like spectators do in first-person-shooter type computer games. An observer could even be automatically tethered to the missing person.
The poster is ignorant. The very FUD complained about is neck-high in this thread.
1) Linux is free, why would it need anti-piracy measures?
2) Microsoft does not monitor what you're listening to, unless you choose to allow them. Played DVDs lately?
3) The DRM is not intrusive, driver support is the widest available, Windows was built for backward compatibility and Microsoft Update / WUS is leading industry.
4) You're right
5) Small competitors would do the same, welcome to business
6) Prove they spy on China? And prove that Linux doesnt
I'm not certain that it was the Operating System that made Amiga fun, but it's hardware and community.
I participated in "the scene" where you got to advertise your warez group by posting a miniature presentation before the game loaded. These were called "intros" - some of these were a very impressive collection of code, graphics, and sound. I used to write the code behind many intros in my early teens for programming exercise and to support my group.
The scene also released and supported an open source (free source?) soundtracker player that became the de-facto music player format for Amiga. Soundtracker (and forks of) were widely available with a huge library of samples and mods (mods being the completed song). Any non-musician could load some sound samples and start banging qwerty to hear tunes.
The Amiga's architecture was a very good for the first-time-asm-coder. 680x0 is quite an easy assembler language and Amiga's hardware, particularly the graphics (and copper), was easy to write for. So, the rewards after the first hour of programming were there and learning curve low. It made you want to poke around and look for more effects - with a few Guru Meditations along the way. I mean, 1985 and it had 3d graphic capabilities built into the hardware - standard.
Put together, Amiga produced some of the best eye-candy I've ever seen.
I really miss the Amiga scene. I believe it's gone for good. The majority of use have grown up - moved on. I don't believe a new Operating System is going to revive the community - the community that "made" Amiga what I remember it as.
I've always thought this would be great for law enforcement. Imagine if a driver of a police car could see the speed of other cars - a speedometer hovering over the roofline. Or, combined with license plate recognition, could see the wanted/stolen status of cars.
I hate Acrobat Reader's load time too. Here is how to speed that up.
Go to the Acrobat program folder: eg. C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Reader\
Move all of the files and folders under the "plug_ins" folder to the "Optional" folder The plug_ins folder should now be empty. Acrobat Reader loads faster.
I don't know what those plugins are for, but my PDFs read fine.
I wonder how an ISP can really talk about Internet speeds. The Internet speed is outside of their control. One day you might get 24Mb but the next 12Mb. Some sites might not even have 24Mb!
What the ISP reports is very likely "your place to ISP" speeds, not "your place to deadbeef.com"
I know that when I dial-up 56k, I'm pretty likely to get 56k no matter where I surf. As my bandwidth increases (256Kb, 2Mb, 24Mb), it gets less and less likely I'm going to get that service to any one site.
Another thing to consider is that ISPs typically don't give you dedicated 24Mb. You get 24Mb on the "your place to ISP" line, then you and all other customers share the "ISP to internet" line. ISPs work out peak usage and ensure no customer gets capped - or at least, the good ones do.
So while you might get 24Mb to the ISP, it'll depend a lot on time of day, internet conditions, destination site, etc..
Until an industry accepted standard/metric index appears, these reported speeds are the best we've got to go on.
One of the primary goals of a colony at these points would be to be self-sufficient. In other words, independent of Earth.
Think about it - If you were a self-sufficient space faring colony with practically unlimited mining resources, why would you be taking orders from Earth?
In time, the colony will declare independence, as did other famous colonies. History will repeat itself.
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Who?
On behalf of all New Zealanders living outside of Auckland, why couldn't the meteorite have been a little bigger?
I learned assembly at age 14. That was on the Amiga writing intros for warez. Writing stuff that was visual was a great way to start.
Thinking back, understanding machine code opened the door to every other language.
MC680x0 assembly is beautiful though, unlike x86 which is sex with barbed wire.
I'm so sick of this tag showing up under each microsoft article.
we're at 3 comments posted, and already the tag exists.
either installed by an alliance of hardcore slashdotters, or by the admins themselves.
the preferences bug prevents hiding tags. it feeds the conspiracy theorist in me.
either way, it smacks of the behaviour politicians employ just before losing an election.
firefox + noscript
type Chelyabinsk into google maps. the marker is where they assembled, but I cant see the smiley yet.
It's not just China's pollution. It's the world's pollution. We consume the product, and we should be responsible for the process waste.
Some portion of the purchase price should be allocated to r&d for minimising process waste. Whether taxed by manufacturers directly, or by participating governments.
The difference being, that people are free to leave at any time, even for a day trip!
I was on an ocean cruise recently, and a little girl was lost... Ship's Security were looking for her.
I later heard she had been found, and as I walked back to my cabin I thought of this software.
Every corridor of the ship has cameras.
The parent could recall the last time she was with the child. An operator could then fly through a 3d map of the ship, from that point in time, with recorded video overlaid, following the girl in fast-forward until the current time was reached.
The flying would be like spectators do in first-person-shooter type computer games.
An observer could even be automatically tethered to the missing person.
3D graphics in Excel: http://vangelder.orcon.net.nz/excel/convex3d.html
Fractal Generated Landscpare Excel: http://vangelder.orcon.net.nz/excel/terrain.html
I think it's funny that Apache is affected by the same drama that affected IIS all those years ago.
We havent really grown up, have we?
An out of control Nikola Tesla experiment with Wireless Energy.
http://www.teslasociety.com/tunguska.htm
It's this abuse of tagging that has led me to disabling tag views.
I'm sorry, but Blue M&Ms taste disgusting. Even a monkey knows that.
For a company that was entirely closed source, these recent source code offerings are starting to look like a trend.
I mean, if everything about your culture said that swimming would kill you, would you dive in head first, or put your toes in first?
The poster is ignorant.
The very FUD complained about is neck-high in this thread.
1) Linux is free, why would it need anti-piracy measures?
2) Microsoft does not monitor what you're listening to, unless you choose to allow them.
Played DVDs lately?
3) The DRM is not intrusive, driver support is the widest available, Windows was built for backward compatibility and Microsoft Update / WUS is leading industry.
4) You're right
5) Small competitors would do the same, welcome to business
6) Prove they spy on China? And prove that Linux doesnt
Some people get a bit too excited about MS, I think. I don't think they are that interesting.
"When Microsoft writes an application for Linux, I've Won." - Linus Torvalds
Imagine a single cow that has favorable qualities for cloning - grows faster, has better meat yield.
Imagine that cow also has a hereditary problem that, when eaten, causes health problems in humans.
The cow by itself would affect a very small portion of the population.
Cloned, and undetected, it will affect many many more people.
This scares me a lot.
I'm not certain that it was the Operating System that made Amiga fun, but it's hardware and community.
I participated in "the scene" where you got to advertise your warez group by posting a miniature presentation before the game loaded.
These were called "intros" - some of these were a very impressive collection of code, graphics, and sound.
I used to write the code behind many intros in my early teens for programming exercise and to support my group.
The scene also released and supported an open source (free source?) soundtracker player that became the de-facto music player format for Amiga. Soundtracker (and forks of) were widely available with a huge library of samples and mods (mods being the completed song). Any non-musician could load some sound samples and start banging qwerty to hear tunes.
The Amiga's architecture was a very good for the first-time-asm-coder. 680x0 is quite an easy assembler language and Amiga's hardware, particularly the graphics (and copper), was easy to write for. So, the rewards after the first hour of programming were there and learning curve low. It made you want to poke around and look for more effects - with a few Guru Meditations along the way.
I mean, 1985 and it had 3d graphic capabilities built into the hardware - standard.
Put together, Amiga produced some of the best eye-candy I've ever seen.
I really miss the Amiga scene. I believe it's gone for good. The majority of use have grown up - moved on.
I don't believe a new Operating System is going to revive the community - the community that "made" Amiga what I remember it as.
I've always thought this would be great for law enforcement.
Imagine if a driver of a police car could see the speed of other cars - a speedometer hovering over the roofline.
Or, combined with license plate recognition, could see the wanted/stolen status of cars.
The prize being to 0wn the Microsoft security mechanisms, but more-so to do it before rival warez groups.
The warez groups aren't so much competing against Microsoft, but amongst themselves - for the sheer status of it.
I hate Acrobat Reader's load time too. Here is how to speed that up.
Go to the Acrobat program folder:
eg. C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Reader\
Move all of the files and folders under the "plug_ins" folder to the "Optional" folder
The plug_ins folder should now be empty. Acrobat Reader loads faster.
I don't know what those plugins are for, but my PDFs read fine.
I get suspicious of the reported speeds.
I wonder how an ISP can really talk about Internet speeds. The Internet speed is outside of their control. One day you might get 24Mb but the next 12Mb. Some sites might not even have 24Mb!
What the ISP reports is very likely "your place to ISP" speeds, not "your place to deadbeef.com"
I know that when I dial-up 56k, I'm pretty likely to get 56k no matter where I surf.
As my bandwidth increases (256Kb, 2Mb, 24Mb), it gets less and less likely I'm going to get that service to any one site.
Another thing to consider is that ISPs typically don't give you dedicated 24Mb.
You get 24Mb on the "your place to ISP" line, then you and all other customers share the "ISP to internet" line.
ISPs work out peak usage and ensure no customer gets capped - or at least, the good ones do.
So while you might get 24Mb to the ISP, it'll depend a lot on time of day, internet conditions, destination site, etc..
Until an industry accepted standard/metric index appears, these reported speeds are the best we've got to go on.
More fricken laser beam equipped sharks jokes.
One of the primary goals of a colony at these points would be to be self-sufficient. In other words, independent of Earth.
Think about it - If you were a self-sufficient space faring colony with practically unlimited mining resources, why would you be taking orders from Earth?
In time, the colony will declare independence, as did other famous colonies. History will repeat itself.