Click on search, stupid dog comes up and it searches through every single.zip file on your harddrive, making a search for file uselessly slow. Oh well, back to the command-line...
And that media player default skin is just offensive. Along with microsoft's insistance that every type of file (even.mid or.mp3) should be able to include executable code to aid virus propagation (not all of that was intentional, but how hard can it be to read a file!).
Of course the problem for 3d artists was that microsoft put a crash key (the one with a windows logo, next to the ctrl and shift keys) on all new keyboards, which killed 3D Studio R4 stone dead if ever you pressed it. That's why artists would physically rip out the windows keys from keyboards.
This brought about sunday trading in the UK. The DIY stores and waterstones made more money by trading on sunday than the fines they paid. Eventually the law was changed.
I think you would find a tunnel under the ocean just a little bit expensive to dig. Are the ferries hydrofoils? The Greek islands have a cool ferry system.
A German man brought his car in for service so the techs reviewed the computer data log to see how the car had been running. It showed peek speeds twice a day at over 200mph, one 230+ [368 km/h], for the last 16 days in a row! He commutes to work each day on the Autobahn. They changed the oil, told him his car was working just fine, and sent him home.
The ICE (german train) can easily outpace normal cars, but the autobahn business driver has an advantage in speed (if not in safety!).
I use some of them. Not the tanning salon, kitchen salesroom or computer shop, which must serve wider areas, but occasionally a sandwich from the cafe, shampoo or prescriptions from the pharmacy or newspapers from the newsagents. It might be nice to have local butchers and bakers like they do in france. England specialises in baking Dwarf Bread (see Terry Pratchett). The off-license has a good range of wines though (and milk and sugar and snacks etc.) so I use that a lot.
My point is that if I am in need of something, I can easily get it by walking, not that I walk to work, although I used to for years before the dang property boom pushed me out. I travel three miles, which would take too long at my pace:-/
As for the schools, if I had kids they might well use the three within walking distance, otherwise there are several excellent schools within a short direct bus-ride. If cycling was safer (the local council has derisory cycle lanes) that would be a good option also.
Within 100 yards of my suburban apartment at the outer limits of London there are: 2 churches, 1 school, 1 cafe, 1 off-license, 1 pharmacy, 1 tanning salon, 1 computer shop, 1 kitchen salesroom. Within another 100 yards there are drycleaners, chinese, indian, more churches. Within 20 minutes slow walk there is a 24 hour large supermarket that sells everything from laptops to socks. It often runs out of buffalo milk mozzarella though:-(
How can people live in a place where even to buy a carton of milk is a major undertaking in logistics? (unlike my neighbours I don't quite drink enough milk to get it delivered each day).
When I visited austin I can't remember there being much transport apart from taxis. Light rail would have been nice. Its a beautiful place though.
Would seattle need high speed (faster than 180 mph) rail though? From the map (I have not been there) it looks like medium speed (80-100 mph or so) would be fast enough for the stops you would make between seattle and redmond say.
My local trains are lucky if they go faster than 70mph:-( but I've got the choice of trams, buses, underground and (allegedly) water buses on my travelcard. Building the new tramlines really disrupted the town centre for years though (nothing gets done fast round here).
Lufthansa runs high-speed trains in germany. They have to compete against high-speed cars though (which you don't have in the USA).
Virgin runs trains as well as an airline, but that's cos Richard Branson wants to set up a business to do everything (mobile phones, cola drinks, cinemas, games companies, finance, condoms(!) IIRC; where will it end?)
You're getting Manchester confused with Bristol (ooo arr ooo arr). Everyone in London knows Manchester is famous for perpetual rain and gun crime. I had never heard it referred to as being backward, what with its importance within the UK in football, music, industry, computing, etc. and of course "Queer as folk" the TV series:-)
Get your stereotypes right! Otherwise it's like saying that people from Maine are well-known as "red-necks".
Hey, I agree that the vast majority of the time it is the programmers' fault, and related to the last thing you put in. Then it might be an extant bug you hadn't noticed. But I have had problems when it was the compiler (especially optimisers), or an undocumented feature of the hardware. And one of our guys just spent a week trying to debug a crash in his program, and the chip supplier eventually said... oh yeah, on the big boards the DMA sometimes is unpredictable [i.e. corrupts RAM] - try the small board.
I like your sentiments, but number 2 is a bit iffy! Perhaps it should be (2) the computer might do exactly what the hardware engineer thought you were going to tell it to do. Unless it's Friday.
The analog domain (speed of transmission, cross-talk etc.) probably intrudes more these days (on new hardware anyway), and often some hardware "features" are not fully documented. Sometimes when I tell a certain sound chip "stop playing that note". It says "no!" (argh).
Even the C64's assembly language has a number of bugs in it (e.g. JMP ($02FF) does not work properly, and LDA $03FF,X might generate a phantom read of $02FF+X). So that someone might be a hardware designer, an assembler-writer, or even the guy who opened the box of chips and counted them (doh!).
In theory it is the same, but assembler is a bit easier on the old brain though! e.g.
LDA #0
STA $D020
RTS
Is easier to understand than the previous DATA statement, and being able to use labels etc. rather than writing patches (to avoid messing up target addresses) is really useful. Actually, I found labels more useful than mnemonic translation (e.g. as in a monitor program) since it made code more flexible.
It used to take ages for airline codes to change too - Air New Zealand had the code TE instead of NZ for decades after the British Empire split up (it used to be Tasman Empire Air Lines).
Graphics mode was slightly annoying on the C64 since it was laid out as 40*25 characters of 8*8 pixels, rather than 320*200 pixels, so writing a PlotPixel routine was a bit on the slow side. The built-in basic did not support text output in graphics mode (unlike some BASICs). Multi-colour mode (160*200*4 colours) was available in both text and graphics mode.
The minimalistic BASIC did really lead into a machine code mindset, but didn't have the built-in assembler that the BBC had.
Of course the C64 had better games than that, but that was long after the Apple 2 game out. The PET and the VIC-20 weren't as well-served (GridRunner was cool though) although they were much more affordable and sounded better.
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Click on search, stupid dog comes up and it searches through every single .zip file on your harddrive, making a search for file uselessly slow. Oh well, back to the command-line...
And that media player default skin is just offensive. Along with microsoft's insistance that every type of file (even .mid or .mp3) should be able to include executable code to aid virus propagation (not all of that was intentional, but how hard can it be to read a file!).
Of course the problem for 3d artists was that microsoft put a crash key (the one with a windows logo, next to the ctrl and shift keys) on all new keyboards, which killed 3D Studio R4 stone dead if ever you pressed it. That's why artists would physically rip out the windows keys from keyboards.
This brought about sunday trading in the UK. The DIY stores and waterstones made more money by trading on sunday than the fines they paid. Eventually the law was changed.
Ah, microsoft and their lovely extension to the URL format for http to include passwords before @ symbols...
Um, the bottom line is profit (or loss), by definition.
I think you would find a tunnel under the ocean just a little bit expensive to dig. Are the ferries hydrofoils? The Greek islands have a cool ferry system.
No, I mean like this McLaren:
A German man brought his car in for service so the techs reviewed the computer data log to see how the car had been running. It showed peek speeds twice a day at over 200mph, one 230+ [368 km/h], for the last 16 days in a row! He commutes to work each day on the Autobahn. They changed the oil, told him his car was working just fine, and sent him home.
The ICE (german train) can easily outpace normal cars, but the autobahn business driver has an advantage in speed (if not in safety!).
We could rebuild coal stations quicker perhaps, but that wouldn't help climate change :-/
You slightly over-represent my point.
Sure, but do you use all those services?
I use some of them. Not the tanning salon, kitchen salesroom or computer shop, which must serve wider areas, but occasionally a sandwich from the cafe, shampoo or prescriptions from the pharmacy or newspapers from the newsagents. It might be nice to have local butchers and bakers like they do in france. England specialises in baking Dwarf Bread (see Terry Pratchett). The off-license has a good range of wines though (and milk and sugar and snacks etc.) so I use that a lot.
My point is that if I am in need of something, I can easily get it by walking, not that I walk to work, although I used to for years before the dang property boom pushed me out. I travel three miles, which would take too long at my pace :-/
As for the schools, if I had kids they might well use the three within walking distance, otherwise there are several excellent schools within a short direct bus-ride. If cycling was safer (the local council has derisory cycle lanes) that would be a good option also.
How can people live in a place where even to buy a carton of milk is a major undertaking in logistics? (unlike my neighbours I don't quite drink enough milk to get it delivered each day).
Would seattle need high speed (faster than 180 mph) rail though? From the map (I have not been there) it looks like medium speed (80-100 mph or so) would be fast enough for the stops you would make between seattle and redmond say.
My local trains are lucky if they go faster than 70mph :-( but I've got the choice of trams, buses, underground and (allegedly) water buses on my travelcard. Building the new tramlines really disrupted the town centre for years though (nothing gets done fast round here).
Virgin runs trains as well as an airline, but that's cos Richard Branson wants to set up a business to do everything (mobile phones, cola drinks, cinemas, games companies, finance, condoms(!) IIRC; where will it end?)
Do they support proper filters? Straight PCM playback is rather limiting I would have thought.
Get your stereotypes right! Otherwise it's like saying that people from Maine are well-known as "red-necks".
Hey, I agree that the vast majority of the time it is the programmers' fault, and related to the last thing you put in. Then it might be an extant bug you hadn't noticed. But I have had problems when it was the compiler (especially optimisers), or an undocumented feature of the hardware. And one of our guys just spent a week trying to debug a crash in his program, and the chip supplier eventually said... oh yeah, on the big boards the DMA sometimes is unpredictable [i.e. corrupts RAM] - try the small board.
Dang remix.kwed.org being down! :-(
The analog domain (speed of transmission, cross-talk etc.) probably intrudes more these days (on new hardware anyway), and often some hardware "features" are not fully documented. Sometimes when I tell a certain sound chip "stop playing that note". It says "no!" (argh).
Even the C64's assembly language has a number of bugs in it (e.g. JMP ($02FF) does not work properly, and LDA $03FF,X might generate a phantom read of $02FF+X). So that someone might be a hardware designer, an assembler-writer, or even the guy who opened the box of chips and counted them (doh!).
In theory it is the same, but assembler is a bit easier on the old brain though! e.g.
LDA #0
STA $D020
RTS
Is easier to understand than the previous DATA statement, and being able to use labels etc. rather than writing patches (to avoid messing up target addresses) is really useful. Actually, I found labels more useful than mnemonic translation (e.g. as in a monitor program) since it made code more flexible.
It used to take ages for airline codes to change too - Air New Zealand had the code TE instead of NZ for decades after the British Empire split up (it used to be Tasman Empire Air Lines).
10 FOR A=49152TO49152+5:READ B:POKEA,B:NEXT
20 SYS 49152
49152 DATA 169,0,141,32,208,96
The minimalistic BASIC did really lead into a machine code mindset, but didn't have the built-in assembler that the BBC had.
And you have to click through an advert for cannabis to get through to the pictures :-)
Back in the 80s I remember that both the record-shop and the dentist in my village used Commodore 64s for accounting and inventory.
Wavy Navy!
Dung Beetles (We Gotcha!)
Bug Attack!
Karateka!
Hard Hat Mack!
LodeRunner (with map designer)
Of course the C64 had better games than that, but that was long after the Apple 2 game out. The PET and the VIC-20 weren't as well-served (GridRunner was cool though) although they were much more affordable and sounded better.
Z8000 is used in Pole Position.
My theory is that the US is waiting until it stores up enough new states that the new flag doesn't look awful (51 stars just doesn't work).