I've heard that there are no two known files that are different, but have the same MD5 hash. If anyone has any more information on the topic, that'd be great..
I installed Doom2 on my Aunty's brand new PC (same day they got it!). Unfortunately I had neglected to read the section of the Windows 3.1 manual that says 'dont try and run anything intensive on a PC with drvspace.sys installed'. Result, after a few hopeless scandisks, it was back to the shop again the next day.:(
I've seen 'works' in art galleries that consist of a horizontal line, with one colour above the line and another colour below the line, and other equally-simplistic things (a green circle on an orange background, etc.). Supposedly there is some great spiritual meaning in the colours or something. If that counts as art, then surely this does.
You aren't allowed to use 'make', or other such 'logic' languages (prolog, haskell, etc.) There is a published list of permitted programming languages.
"Owning a gun is not a crime. Pointing it at someone is." In most countries, it is a crime to own a gun without proper registration. Also, the consequence of "pointing" with WMD could mean hundreds of millions of people dead, not just one or two.
Also, you should know that countries illegally expanding their borders is a threat to world security (look at israel..)
by 'the older system' I was referring to kunrei-siki , what's the difference between that and your "older system" ? I was under the impression they stopped doing that lately, but obviously not:)
What did the original story text say? (I read it and I don't see where those words would fit in). BTW if it's racist, who is it racist against? Someone in this thread suggested it was anti-Japanese but it is rare for racist behaviour to generate this sort of level of complaint on slashdot, unless it is anti-black americans. Where are all the people protesting the anti-iraqi racism.
(BTW: where you wrote 'unphased' you mean 'unfazed')
Why isn't there something like this for normal internet? Even the "old days" of Zmodem's big packets if it was going well, and small packets if it wasn't, is better than the fixed MTU/MRU we're stuck with now.
Does fairlight do any legal stuff too? Going back a few years now, everybody I know got all their Amiga 500 games off the Fairlight catalogue. I always presumed they were acting on behalf of all the game developers, especially since they posted their stuff in public places and newspapers all the time.
If you always type MERGE "" whenever you load a game for the first time, then you can count yourself amongst that select programming group known as 'hackers'
I love it!!!!
Good article though. I got all the objects in the game (many years ago now) but still did not manage to complete it successfully (actually I'm not sure if I did or not: I remember my head being stuck down the toilet though).
I dont know what the guy is going on about the Conservatory Roof tho, I never had any trouble getting up there.
They should have evened up the contest: if he chooses the girl and she doesn't put out, then he gets the PS2.
Actually that suggests something: maybe the original version is a real-life version of Newcomb's Paradox (http://members.aol.com/kiekeben/newcomb.html). Rationally speaking you don't choose Box B (the girl) because there is the possibility you'll walk away with nothing, but people who do actually choose Box B seem to end up with more!
I dont know about that: even on Win98 and WinME, it goes to shit if you try and have 2 different programs play sound at the same time. (Sometimes it bluescreens, sometimes just one of them works and the other doesn't).
C++ does not have "typeof". I understand it's slated for looking at by the ISO committee, but it'd still be a fair way off before it came in. Some compilers support it as an extension (I wish more did).
Example use: std::vector<std::string> vec; typeof(vec)::iterator i = vec.begin();
(so you can declare iterators and so on, and then change from vector to deque later and not have to change all your code)
Qbasic is NOT development software. You can't even make executables with it. The only reason they include it is for "backward user-friendliness" ie. in the old days, microcomputers would all come with builtin BASIC, so they wanted to encourage the upgrade to PC by making sure they still did what the old ones did.
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In soviet china, the passwords crack you, etc. etc.
I've heard that there are no two known files that are different, but have the same MD5 hash.
If anyone has any more information on the topic, that'd be great..
Invade Iraq again, win Warcraft II
Live in San Francisco, win Quake
I installed Doom2 on my Aunty's brand new PC (same day they got it!). Unfortunately I had neglected to read the section of the Windows 3.1 manual that says 'dont try and run anything intensive on a PC with drvspace.sys installed'. Result, after a few hopeless scandisks, it was back to the shop again the next day. :(
You can't dent aluminium? I think you have spent too much time with your 486s :)
I've seen 'works' in art galleries that consist of a horizontal line, with one colour above the line and another colour below the line, and other equally-simplistic things (a green circle on an orange background, etc.). Supposedly there is some great spiritual meaning in the colours or something.
If that counts as art, then surely this does.
You aren't allowed to use 'make', or other such 'logic' languages (prolog, haskell, etc.) There is a published list of permitted programming languages.
(This is a reinventing-the-wheel competition)
"Owning a gun is not a crime. Pointing it at someone is." In most countries, it is a crime to own a gun without proper registration. Also, the consequence of "pointing" with WMD could mean hundreds of millions of people dead, not just one or two.
Also, you should know that countries illegally expanding their borders is a threat to world security (look at israel..)
by 'the older system' I was referring to kunrei-siki , what's the difference between that and your "older system" ? :)
I was under the impression they stopped doing that lately, but obviously not
I see you've reverted to older forms of romanization.. nowdays, 'zi' and 'di' are (unfortunately, imho) written as they are pronounced, ie. 'ji'
What did the original story text say? (I read it and I don't see where those words would fit in). BTW if it's racist, who is it racist against? Someone in this thread suggested it was anti-Japanese but it is rare for racist behaviour to generate this sort of level of complaint on slashdot, unless it is anti-black americans. Where are all the people protesting the anti-iraqi racism.
(BTW: where you wrote 'unphased' you mean 'unfazed')
Yeah, and if someone spills hot coffee, you don't blame the coffee vendor.
Why isn't there something like this for normal internet? Even the "old days" of Zmodem's big packets if it was going well, and small packets if it wasn't, is better than the fixed MTU/MRU we're stuck with now.
This is the same Dijkstra who advocated that programming should only be done by people with a degree in pure mathematics
Maybe if they didn't grant so many patents for obvious and existing things, there wouldn't be so many people jumping on the bandwagon!
Like the Nader campaign?
Does fairlight do any legal stuff too? Going back a few years now, everybody I know got all their Amiga 500 games off the Fairlight catalogue. I always presumed they were acting on behalf of all the game developers, especially since they posted their stuff in public places and newspapers all the time.
If you always type MERGE "" whenever you load a game for the first time, then you can count yourself amongst that select programming group known as 'hackers'
I love it!!!!
Good article though. I got all the objects in the game (many years ago now) but still did not manage to complete it successfully (actually I'm not sure if I did or not: I remember my head being stuck down the toilet though). I dont know what the guy is going on about the Conservatory Roof tho, I never had any trouble getting up there.
They should have evened up the contest: if he chooses the girl and she doesn't put out, then he gets the PS2.
Actually that suggests something: maybe the original version is a real-life version of Newcomb's Paradox (http://members.aol.com/kiekeben/newcomb.html). Rationally speaking you don't choose Box B (the girl) because there is the possibility you'll walk away with nothing, but people who do actually choose Box B seem to end up with more!
However, Seagate's chief technology officer, Mark Kryder, said the project had few real implications for the data-storage industry.
"Certainly we are not going to start packaging linear accelerators into hard disk drives,
Fools, cutting themself out of the linear accelerator harddrive market already. I'm switching to WD..I dont know about that: even on Win98 and WinME, it goes to shit if you try and have 2 different programs play sound at the same time. (Sometimes it bluescreens, sometimes just one of them works and the other doesn't).
C++ does not have "typeof". I understand it's slated for looking at by the ISO committee, but it'd still be a fair way off before it came in. Some compilers support it as an extension (I wish more did).
Example use:
std::vector<std::string> vec;
typeof(vec)::iterator i = vec.begin();
(so you can declare iterators and so on, and then change from vector to deque later and not have to change all your code)
Must compilers have switches to warn about signed-unsigned comparisons, and to warn about
implicit casts to types with a smaller range.
Well, they already came out with D flat
Qbasic is NOT development software. You can't even make executables with it. The only reason they include it is for "backward user-friendliness" ie. in the old days, microcomputers would all come with builtin BASIC, so they wanted to encourage the upgrade to PC by making sure they still did what the old ones did.