Just because 6.2% of people don't have wired phones doesn't mean that the service isn't available to them. A lot of people ditch their wired lines and just use their cell phone.
I love SNES music.. I've got a few OSTs (original soundtracks) dumped to mp3, but they just don't sound the same as the original. Zophar.net has a good archive of SPCs and links to plugins for winamp, etc. Very cool stuff. Also, Skytopia has a lot of interesting and relevant info. Axelay will always be my favorite!
Stephen King wrote a nice short story about teleportation called The Jaunt. I'm not much of a King fan, but the story is very good.
In The Jaunt people can teleport between different locations, but they have to be put to sleep first, otherwise something very bad happens. Most of the story is from the perspective of a father telling his family, all of whom are about to go "Jaunting", about the history of how it was invented and its side effects.
Very interesting read.
Mensa can be a good organization to belong to. Even if you don't feel like associating with people, or getting involved in any way whatsoever, you get a discount on car insurance, amongst many others. Mensa partners with lots of different organizations.
Being a member of Mensa has saved me more than $300 over the past three years (cost of being a member for 3 years is around $115 or so), so from a strictly economical standpoint, it pays off -- the publications and interaction are just icing on the cake.
Also, don't forget, a good deal of programming is still done in assembly. Both in a job I've had coding stuff and in my current research (crypto), I did/do a lot of assembly programming.
Yes, learning assembly will make a better programmer out of those who never will code assembly again, but for some people, assembly is a valuable and often-used skill
Interesting point you make. Although I was never a master at cursive, I'm abysmal now.
When you take the GRE exam, they make you write out a ten line statement with cursive, stating you won't reveal any questions, etc. For me, that was the absolute worst part of the test.
Right, thanks for jogging my memory. Being up for 20 hours makes me forget stuff:) Anyway, it was a very good, and very funny, presentation. I also rather liked Quisquater's presentation about the stone.
The Diebold system does have major flaws. I was just at the Crypto2003 conference where one of the talks was on the faults in this system. Amongst other things, when they pointed out the major errors in code, the company replied back calling DES (or DSA, I forget) a compression scheme, and they implemented an algorithm from Handbook of Applied Crypto for purposes of encryption with a value listed in the book that says explicitly "Do not use this for cryptographic purposes"
I still think the original GTA is neat -- it also has an interesting perspective (overhead). If you haven't played it, go check it out if you're looking for a GTA fix!
Anyone who's ever written some assembly can easily understand how much memory 20K really IS. Right now I'm making full games (with full ANSI graphics, artificial intelligence, pseudorandom software based random number generation, for zero/one/two players) on a Motorola 68000 with under 3K of ROM. If I had 20K, whew, I could do some REALLY neat stuff.
This can't be true. I mean, yeah, it's possible to write 1500 lines of well polished code a day, but every day for 18 months, and on a project of this magnitude, by himself? I doubt it.
I'll believe it when I see it.
Thanks for explaining it. I was hoping I wouldn't have to -- I was hoping that people would be intelligent enough to get it right off the bat. I guess not.
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Just because 6.2% of people don't have wired phones doesn't mean that the service isn't available to them. A lot of people ditch their wired lines and just use their cell phone.
I love SNES music.. I've got a few OSTs (original soundtracks) dumped to mp3, but they just don't sound the same as the original. Zophar.net has a good archive of SPCs and links to plugins for winamp, etc. Very cool stuff. Also, Skytopia has a lot of interesting and relevant info. Axelay will always be my favorite!
Stephen King wrote a nice short story about teleportation called The Jaunt. I'm not much of a King fan, but the story is very good. In The Jaunt people can teleport between different locations, but they have to be put to sleep first, otherwise something very bad happens. Most of the story is from the perspective of a father telling his family, all of whom are about to go "Jaunting", about the history of how it was invented and its side effects. Very interesting read.
Who do you think gives the discount? GEICO.
Mensa can be a good organization to belong to. Even if you don't feel like associating with people, or getting involved in any way whatsoever, you get a discount on car insurance, amongst many others. Mensa partners with lots of different organizations.
Being a member of Mensa has saved me more than $300 over the past three years (cost of being a member for 3 years is around $115 or so), so from a strictly economical standpoint, it pays off -- the publications and interaction are just icing on the cake.
Also, don't forget, a good deal of programming is still done in assembly. Both in a job I've had coding stuff and in my current research (crypto), I did/do a lot of assembly programming. Yes, learning assembly will make a better programmer out of those who never will code assembly again, but for some people, assembly is a valuable and often-used skill
What we really need is a Meta Moore's law, to tell us how long it takes before we need a new Moore's law.
Tom St. Denis has a nice crypto library at libtomcrypt.org. I like it, anyway.. it's worth a look :)
Interesting point you make. Although I was never a master at cursive, I'm abysmal now.
:)
When you take the GRE exam, they make you write out a ten line statement with cursive, stating you won't reveal any questions, etc. For me, that was the absolute worst part of the test.
800 quant, 800 verbal, 200 non-disclosure statement
Damn.. so close to that dream school
Right, thanks for jogging my memory. Being up for 20 hours makes me forget stuff :) Anyway, it was a very good, and very funny, presentation. I also rather liked Quisquater's presentation about the stone.
The Diebold system does have major flaws. I was just at the Crypto2003 conference where one of the talks was on the faults in this system. Amongst other things, when they pointed out the major errors in code, the company replied back calling DES (or DSA, I forget) a compression scheme, and they implemented an algorithm from Handbook of Applied Crypto for purposes of encryption with a value listed in the book that says explicitly "Do not use this for cryptographic purposes"
I still think the original GTA is neat -- it also has an interesting perspective (overhead). If you haven't played it, go check it out if you're looking for a GTA fix!
This will finally give reason for college students to do their laundry :)
Anyone who's ever written some assembly can easily understand how much memory 20K really IS. Right now I'm making full games (with full ANSI graphics, artificial intelligence, pseudorandom software based random number generation, for zero/one/two players) on a Motorola 68000 with under 3K of ROM. If I had 20K, whew, I could do some REALLY neat stuff.
that make Quake 3 one more step closer to becoming a reality :)
Nobody said that the inventor of Pong was Bushnell. Why don't you try reading the article first next time. Mod parent down, please.
This can't be true. I mean, yeah, it's possible to write 1500 lines of well polished code a day, but every day for 18 months, and on a project of this magnitude, by himself? I doubt it. I'll believe it when I see it.
3.14159265358979323846264338327950288...... ah, this is gonna take a while :-/
Ivan Pavlov would be proud. :)
Sharp... glass computer. Does anyone else see the connection?
Just look at that picture of flowers!
on to 3.11! Oops!
Thanks for explaining it. I was hoping I wouldn't have to -- I was hoping that people would be intelligent enough to get it right off the bat. I guess not.
2002 is 1984!
I got an email last night about this! Also, it asked me to help out his Nigerian cousin...