Hmm, IMHO the analog thumb stick was "just" the combination of analog joysticks (seen on computers long before the N64) and the thumb joystick (as seen on the Spectravideo home computer in the early 1980s). It did make them popular though, and reliable enough to be useful.
But don't forget the D-Pad! Nintendo invented (and patented) this for the game-and-watch series and it took off with the NES and is still pretty useful today.
Also with the NES controller they went for a serial protocol unlike the earlier Atari controllers. That might be an innovation.
And yet the seatbelts on different planes let alone different airlines are different lengths! I flew to Orlando once and had to get a seat belt extender for the first and only time; on the way back I fitted comfortably in the seat. On Wizz Air there were inches more seatbelt length left than on the previous airline.
However if your airline flies via the USA you get about 40kg free baggage allowance (by international treaty) and via somewhere else just 15kg or 20kg.
Note that in England, even though slavery was declared illegal in 1772 (sparking off the American revolution as Americans fought to keep their slaves), domestic servants (male and female) only got the vote in 1928 IIRC - ten years after property owning women got the vote!
Thus we get the distinction between manumission and emancipation.
And the fact that a phone can't maintain a voice call in central London (if you are on a train) without cutting out every few minutes makes you wonder how reliable it would be.
Even now you wonder if a person described as being on the register has basically just pissed against a lamppost while coming home from the pub and been caught on surveillance camera and put on the register because of that.
They got source code? That makes it a lot easier.:-) source code with English comments would be even better...
(Japanese beat-em-ups for example are notorious for vast wodges of copy-and-pasted assembly code that is hard to understand if you can't follow the Japanese comments).
Anyway, the kernel of a 2600 game (which is half the code) is completely unlike a C64 game engine. The game logic would have been easy to port so it would make sense to keep that. And I would hope the graphics and sound were much improved anyway (I quite like pitfall 2 on c64 as it happens).
But "dumping" the code (i.e. reverse engineering a 2600 game from just the ROM) is time consuming especially back then when the tools would have been non-existent. Now we would use a debugging edition of MESS but on a 4.7MHz PC it would be another matter altogether, and a lot of time things were converted "by eye" instead.
That's what he was asking! From memory, most of those have turned up in the news as having bloody wars in the last twenty years, let alone insurgents. At the very least Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Burundi, Liberia, Congo, Mozambique, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan have had nasty wars recently. Probably a few more I have forgotten about. Nigeria is filled with religious tension between Islamic and christian areas and also anti-oil company violence.
There are/were armed groups in Zimbabwe, Uganda (killing tourists) Egypt (ditto) and a fair bit of violent crime in South Africa.
Even the Seychelles now has Somalian pirates picking off boats nearby, and that applies to Kenya and I guess Comoros as well.
Mauritius is probably the nicest/safest of those places to visit.
True enough, but normally Eurostar shuts down at night. They could run more trains, staff permitting. Or are night slots reserved for freight/truck crossings?
There are also reserves (both actual and borrowed), which are part of the business - not the customers or employees. In the case of Microsoft they could set the price of their software fairly arbitrarily for a number of *years* without running out of money! (assuming they could ignore shareholder resolutions/government regulation - there may be better examples). The price of Internet Explorer does not reflect its cost of development.
Also there can be cross-subsidisation between industries within a company (Sony?) and entire industries (like professional sports) which are given money for their prestige rather than financial payback.
I agree with you that corporate income tax gives an advantage to those companies that know how to avoid it using international corporate structures, but I know that even a (non american) individual can manage that given the motivation and effort, so it may not apply to all small companies. It must be a lot easier for multinationals though.
the chances are there wasn't a CCTV camera within a couple of miles radius
I am pretty sure that I am on camera pretty much from the moment I leave my house until I get into the office. There are speed cameras outside the house, multiple cameras on the bus (internal and external), cameras in the town centre and in the car parks of the office blocks I walk past. They are not linked up though, so anything short of a rape or murder will probably not get anyone looking at most of the footage (until computer data mining becomes more powerful of course - lets say 8-10 years?). Certainly if the police did something naughty to me I would expect that the footage was all mysteriously unavailable, and they really cannot be bothered if it is a pickpocketing or some such thing.
The means of transport (oyster card) tracks where I get on the bus and in and out of each train/tube station. Sure I can walk or use a taxi or pay (a lot) extra for paper tickets and not be tracked but that is inconvenient.
In theory the government can look at what I am watching on my television/dvd/games system (van ecke freaking) but they tend to do that just on people who don't pay their TV license. So I pay mine and hope that my neighbour pays his. Maybe that doesn't work so well on LCD screens as on CRTs?
A huge proportion of the society has their details stored on the police DNA database (about 37% of all black men and over 5% of the population have their DNA stored according to an old wikipedia statistic)
Whether or not the original story was made up, the amount of data the UK government holds on its subjects is bloody scary if they wanted to use it for evil.
A business will never pay any tax. The will simply pass on the expenses they incur (including taxes) to the consumer.
That is analogous to what Karl Marx believed, that the price of a good was equal to the cost of producing it. This theory did not work very well long-term in the USSR, since it is pointless making lots of goods of a type that no-one wants to buy.
An alternative view (laissez faire free market capitalism) is that that the price of a good is equal to the amount that someone is willing to pay for it (maximised to increase profit to the company). If corporations raise the price above the ideal price, the sales will go down so that the company actually makes less profit than at the ideal price, so it would be silly to do so (actually, it may lead to a black market forming but never mind about that).
In reality there are other things to worry about (government regulation (especially with utilities and the new health care bill), people holding grudges against companies that profiteer, what products compete with yours e.g. DVDs versus live entertainment) but there are limits on how much companies can just pass costs and taxes on without it affecting sales volumes.
There is no picture on his homepage but I suspect from previous posts that they are older than the average Miami Studios models so you might want to rethink that offer!
Slashdot is probably *not* the best place to talent scout for glamour models:-)
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Hmm, IMHO the analog thumb stick was "just" the combination of analog joysticks (seen on computers long before the N64) and the thumb joystick (as seen on the Spectravideo home computer in the early 1980s). It did make them popular though, and reliable enough to be useful. But don't forget the D-Pad! Nintendo invented (and patented) this for the game-and-watch series and it took off with the NES and is still pretty useful today. Also with the NES controller they went for a serial protocol unlike the earlier Atari controllers. That might be an innovation.
Because if you walk around in the USA you would get shot? If there is one things Americans like more than their cars, it is their guns...
Business class seats are slightly wider and longer but they charge a dang sight more than 50% extra for them :-(
And yet the seatbelts on different planes let alone different airlines are different lengths! I flew to Orlando once and had to get a seat belt extender for the first and only time; on the way back I fitted comfortably in the seat. On Wizz Air there were inches more seatbelt length left than on the previous airline. However if your airline flies via the USA you get about 40kg free baggage allowance (by international treaty) and via somewhere else just 15kg or 20kg.
Thus we get the distinction between manumission and emancipation.
And the fact that a phone can't maintain a voice call in central London (if you are on a train) without cutting out every few minutes makes you wonder how reliable it would be.
Even now you wonder if a person described as being on the register has basically just pissed against a lamppost while coming home from the pub and been caught on surveillance camera and put on the register because of that.
I think someone has done that to create a short film using a lot of FOI requests and careful timekeeping.
No mention of LIDL then? Of course I shop at Waitrose with all the beautiful people :-)
Where is a link to the Peter Serafinowicz sketch about a polish plumber/neurosurgeon when you need it...
You were the one who used the word "dumping" which implied object code rather than source code :-)
(Japanese beat-em-ups for example are notorious for vast wodges of copy-and-pasted assembly code that is hard to understand if you can't follow the Japanese comments).
Anyway, the kernel of a 2600 game (which is half the code) is completely unlike a C64 game engine. The game logic would have been easy to port so it would make sense to keep that. And I would hope the graphics and sound were much improved anyway (I quite like pitfall 2 on c64 as it happens).
But "dumping" the code (i.e. reverse engineering a 2600 game from just the ROM) is time consuming especially back then when the tools would have been non-existent. Now we would use a debugging edition of MESS but on a 4.7MHz PC it would be another matter altogether, and a lot of time things were converted "by eye" instead.
Island: There is no "c" in our alphabet! (true).
(groans at comment since I have just had a 24 hour fever from some runny blue cheese).
That's what he was asking! From memory, most of those have turned up in the news as having bloody wars in the last twenty years, let alone insurgents. At the very least Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Burundi, Liberia, Congo, Mozambique, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan have had nasty wars recently. Probably a few more I have forgotten about. Nigeria is filled with religious tension between Islamic and christian areas and also anti-oil company violence. There are/were armed groups in Zimbabwe, Uganda (killing tourists) Egypt (ditto) and a fair bit of violent crime in South Africa. Even the Seychelles now has Somalian pirates picking off boats nearby, and that applies to Kenya and I guess Comoros as well. Mauritius is probably the nicest/safest of those places to visit.
True enough, but normally Eurostar shuts down at night. They could run more trains, staff permitting. Or are night slots reserved for freight/truck crossings?
And high in Fluorine IIRC. So best not to eat it unless you desperately want your corpse to have shiny teeth :-)
Since when is there natural plutonium on this planet? Arsenic might have been a better example.
It is called Warehouse 13
Also there can be cross-subsidisation between industries within a company (Sony?) and entire industries (like professional sports) which are given money for their prestige rather than financial payback.
I agree with you that corporate income tax gives an advantage to those companies that know how to avoid it using international corporate structures, but I know that even a (non american) individual can manage that given the motivation and effort, so it may not apply to all small companies. It must be a lot easier for multinationals though.
Well sometimes that could work, e.g. when one twin goes to the gym and the other doesn't :-)
the chances are there wasn't a CCTV camera within a couple of miles radius
I am pretty sure that I am on camera pretty much from the moment I leave my house until I get into the office. There are speed cameras outside the house, multiple cameras on the bus (internal and external), cameras in the town centre and in the car parks of the office blocks I walk past. They are not linked up though, so anything short of a rape or murder will probably not get anyone looking at most of the footage (until computer data mining becomes more powerful of course - lets say 8-10 years?). Certainly if the police did something naughty to me I would expect that the footage was all mysteriously unavailable, and they really cannot be bothered if it is a pickpocketing or some such thing.
The means of transport (oyster card) tracks where I get on the bus and in and out of each train/tube station. Sure I can walk or use a taxi or pay (a lot) extra for paper tickets and not be tracked but that is inconvenient.
In theory the government can look at what I am watching on my television/dvd/games system (van ecke freaking) but they tend to do that just on people who don't pay their TV license. So I pay mine and hope that my neighbour pays his. Maybe that doesn't work so well on LCD screens as on CRTs?
A huge proportion of the society has their details stored on the police DNA database (about 37% of all black men and over 5% of the population have their DNA stored according to an old wikipedia statistic)
Whether or not the original story was made up, the amount of data the UK government holds on its subjects is bloody scary if they wanted to use it for evil.
A business will never pay any tax. The will simply pass on the expenses they incur (including taxes) to the consumer.
That is analogous to what Karl Marx believed, that the price of a good was equal to the cost of producing it. This theory did not work very well long-term in the USSR, since it is pointless making lots of goods of a type that no-one wants to buy.
An alternative view (laissez faire free market capitalism) is that that the price of a good is equal to the amount that someone is willing to pay for it (maximised to increase profit to the company). If corporations raise the price above the ideal price, the sales will go down so that the company actually makes less profit than at the ideal price, so it would be silly to do so (actually, it may lead to a black market forming but never mind about that).
In reality there are other things to worry about (government regulation (especially with utilities and the new health care bill), people holding grudges against companies that profiteer, what products compete with yours e.g. DVDs versus live entertainment) but there are limits on how much companies can just pass costs and taxes on without it affecting sales volumes.
I can give you a good price.
There is no picture on his homepage but I suspect from previous posts that they are older than the average Miami Studios models so you might want to rethink that offer!
Slashdot is probably *not* the best place to talent scout for glamour models :-)
Isn't there a new TV series based on that warehouse (which was in Xfiles also)? The concept sounds promising...