What I meant (through sarcasm) was that the book industry has a far healthier diversity than the movie/music industries. Of course vigilence is still necessary.
For example Addison Wesley is owned by Pearson (PSON) which is publicly listed, i.e. not owned by SonyErricson/MicrosoftNBC/FoxSunTimes/AOLTimeWarne r/Bertlesman/ParisSewageCompanyConnexUniversal.
Unless the Capitol group (11%) has anything to do with EMICapitol:-)
More worrying are the current attempts to strengthen a cartel in food, so that five or six companies will control all the (genetically modified) seeds that farmers are allowed to plant, and hence the food the world is allowed to eat. The USA is pushing the EU in particular to try and force it to eat GM foods like they do, and centralise control of the food supply to a few private companies.
Has to have a good shot there for overriding the supreme court and committing genocide and ethnic cleansing on what is now US soil (as opposed to all those other presidents who did it offshore).
of three or four global corporations that represents 95% of all books published will get upset about electronic piracy like the MPAA and RIAA.
Wait a minute, what do you mean there's no cartel? You mean people can self-publish and get retail exposure (taking up a full display desk even) in actual shops? Call yourself an industry? Pah!
The fact that it is the #1 best selling game where it has been released, and is fun to play, attracting crowds at shops, and is a cool use of technology and the slashbots say... uh a game where I have to get up off my fat ass? Must be terrible!
Future tips for CNN money: There is a movie called "Return of the king" coming out soon in the US, and I predict that several people will go and see it. Also there is a games company called "Electronic Arts" that occasionally releases popular games.
And yes, I am jealous that an ex-workmate has just got a job developing eye-toy 2:-)
Wants to make CDs that you can't listen to in your car, and can't listen to at work (on your PC). So they assume people have hours of spare time sitting around at home doing nothing but listen to music on dedicated disc players. I bet they're kicking themselves that you can "import" CDs from other countries and still listen to them.
Perhaps for the next disc standard they will ask for region encoding and also genre encoding (i.e. some disc players to only play country discs, others to only play boy-band discs etc.) to really boost their egos and piss off consumers. It's standard practice in other industries:
Remember that Nintendo Europe is attacking retailers who import games like "Advance Wars 2" from the USA, since that would complicate their internal business reports, and the music industry executives must want to follow the same lead...
You mean like the Japanese company that invented shift-JIS? I used to get them confused with the company that in the 1990s was the #2 software company in Redmond, WA (after Nintendo).
Already one of our clients has a program of some sort that examines zip files attached to emails and strips any ".bin" files (as well as ".exe" etc.) within the zip. I know windows likes executing anything it can, but 6502 processor binary files is probably stretching it! Anyway, I haven't heard of autoexecuting code hiding in a.bin file, unlike.mid or.mp3 files.
End now? Wow that's sure reassuring to happen while you're installing a patch!
Also, the patches these days lie about their size - when they say 225K they mean just for the list of the files that they really need to download in part two - some patches have megabytes hiding away in "installing" instead of "downloading". And yes I do pay by the minute:-(
"High-level scripting language" == non-standardised BASIC variant with no decent tool support or static checking, that changes semantics with the phase of the moon.
Very well, strip off the comments and here you go.
RAM_START equ $80 ; yes this is code but here is some padding but here is some padding
CODE_START equ $8000 ; yes this is code but here is some padding but here is some padding
rsset RAM_START ; yes this is code but here is some padding but here is some padding
val1low rb 1 ; yes this is code but here is some padding but here is some padding
val1high rb 1 ; yes this is code but here is some padding but here is some padding
val2 rb 1 ; yes this is code but here is some padding but here is some padding
res1low rb 1 ; yes this is code but here is some padding but here is some padding
res1high rb 1 ; yes this is code but here is some padding but here is some padding
factlow rb 1 ; yes this is code but here is some padding but here is some padding
facthigh rb 1 ; yes this is code but here is some padding but here is some padding
counter rb 1 ; yes this is code but here is some padding but here is some padding
org CODE_START ; yes this is code but here is some padding but here is some padding
Testbed ; yes this is code but here is some padding but here is some padding
; Initialisation ; yes this is code but here is some padding but here is some padding
ldx #$ff ; yes this is code but here is some padding
txs ; yes this is code but here is some padding
sei ; yes this is code but here is some padding
cld ; yes this is code but here is some padding
; Perform task ; yes this is code but here is some padding
lda #5 ; yes this is code but here is some padding
jsr CalcFactorial ; yes this is code but here is some padding
; A contains result ; yes this is code but here is some padding
brk ; yes this is code but here is some padding
; Input: A ; yes this is code but here is some padding
; Output: A=factorial (note that (a-1)! must fit into 8 bits)
CalcFactorial ; yes this is code but here is some padding
sta counter ; yes this is code but here is some padding
lda #1 ; yes this is code but here is some padding
sta factlow ; yes this is code but here is some padding
floop lda counter ; yes this is code but here is some padding
cmp #2 ; yes this is code but here is some padding
bcc fend ; yes this is code but here is some padding
ldy factlow ; yes this is code but here is some padding
jsr Mult8x8 ; yes this is code but here is some padding
sta factlow ; yes this is code but here is some padding
sty facthigh ; yes this is code but here is some padding
dec counter ; yes this is code but here is some padding
jmp floop ; yes this is code but here is some padding
fend lda factlow ; yes this is code but here is some padding
ldy facthigh ; yes this is code but here is some padding
rts ; yes this is code but here is some padding
; Multiply 8 bit * 8 bit = 16 bit (Input: A,Y) (Output: A:Y=result)
Mult8x8 ; yes this is code but here is some padding
sta val2 ; yes this is code but here is some padding
lda #0 ; yes this is code but here is some padding
sta res1low ; yes this is code but here is some padding
sta res1high ; yes this is code but here is some padding
sty val1low ; yes this is code but here is some padding
sta val1high ; yes this is code but here is some padding
ldx #8 ; yes this is code but here is some padding
mloop ; Is this bit set?
lsr val2 ; yes this is code but here is some padding
bcc nobit ; yes this is code but here is some padding
; 16 bit add
lda res1low ; yes this is code but here is some padding
clc ; yes this is code but here is some padding
adc val1low ; yes this is code but here is some padding
sta res1low ; yes this is code but here is some padding
lda res1high ; yes this is code but here is some padding
adc val1high ; yes this is code but h
Except when the print routine is serialised and you have a multi-threading bug that only appears under certain conditions, one of them being that all your print statements are disabled:-)
And even if you check preferences to say show all file extensions, Windows still hides a couple of executable extensions (for shell scrap objects). You have to delve deep into the registry to say "show all file extensions. Including that one. Yes and that one too."
Outlook/OE can't open or save ".doc" files. Does anyone know a decent word-processor that saves files in a format suitable for attaching to email?
Re:Pffft .... Commander Keen
on
Masters of Doom
·
· Score: 1
But around about the same time you could get a ZX Spectrum or C64 emulator running on a PC, and the emulated games would run smoother than "native" PC games.
Heck, in suburban London I saw DVDs being sold on the street for Charlies Angels 2, Hulk, Terminator 3 etc. before they came out in the cinema.
But perhaps hulk might have sold better if they had used the green_skin texture instead of the green_plastic texture that was in the adverts. Look at the specular highlights on the magazine covers. What's the point of seeing a CGI movie with crap CGI?
I posted a christmas card to a homeless guy with just his nickname, the street name and a picture of his doorway. It got to him, and according to him the postman was really happy it was the right person!
And according to tv, letters with just a picture of a tardis on them made their way to the Dr. Who appreciation society.
Slashdot Mirror
For example Addison Wesley is owned by Pearson (PSON) which is publicly listed, i.e. not owned by SonyErricson/MicrosoftNBC/FoxSunTimes/AOLTimeWarne r/Bertlesman/ParisSewageCompanyConnexUniversal.
Unless the Capitol group (11%) has anything to do with EMICapitol :-)
More worrying are the current attempts to strengthen a cartel in food, so that five or six companies will control all the (genetically modified) seeds that farmers are allowed to plant, and hence the food the world is allowed to eat. The USA is pushing the EU in particular to try and force it to eat GM foods like they do, and centralise control of the food supply to a few private companies.
But his picture is on your money.
Wait a minute, what do you mean there's no cartel? You mean people can self-publish and get retail exposure (taking up a full display desk even) in actual shops? Call yourself an industry? Pah!
(Slashdot seconds are like british rail "minutes")... 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20...
Future tips for CNN money: There is a movie called "Return of the king" coming out soon in the US, and I predict that several people will go and see it. Also there is a games company called "Electronic Arts" that occasionally releases popular games.
And yes, I am jealous that an ex-workmate has just got a job developing eye-toy 2 :-)
Perhaps for the next disc standard they will ask for region encoding and also genre encoding (i.e. some disc players to only play country discs, others to only play boy-band discs etc.) to really boost their egos and piss off consumers. It's standard practice in other industries:
Remember that Nintendo Europe is attacking retailers who import games like "Advance Wars 2" from the USA, since that would complicate their internal business reports, and the music industry executives must want to follow the same lead...
You mean like the Japanese company that invented shift-JIS? I used to get them confused with the company that in the 1990s was the #2 software company in Redmond, WA (after Nintendo).
They write their own tunes and are on every single girl-magazine cover it seems. Mmmm.
Already one of our clients has a program of some sort that examines zip files attached to emails and strips any ".bin" files (as well as ".exe" etc.) within the zip. I know windows likes executing anything it can, but 6502 processor binary files is probably stretching it! Anyway, I haven't heard of autoexecuting code hiding in a .bin file, unlike .mid or .mp3 files.
The entire point of SOAP is to screw up port 80, because those damn pesky sysadmins won't let sundry RPC calls go through their firewalls.
Enough X for you?
Also, the patches these days lie about their size - when they say 225K they mean just for the list of the files that they really need to download in part two - some patches have megabytes hiding away in "installing" instead of "downloading". And yes I do pay by the minute :-(
Yeah, where did all the company receptionists get the "S for Sugar" code from?
Why would Microsoft want to buy Anthrax? They have enough problems with viruses already!
I thought that group was called "linux users".
"High-level scripting language" == non-standardised BASIC variant with no decent tool support or static checking, that changes semantics with the phase of the moon.
RAM_START equ $80 ; yes this is code but here is some padding but here is some padding
CODE_START equ $8000 ; yes this is code but here is some padding but here is some padding
rsset RAM_START ; yes this is code but here is some padding but here is some padding
val1low rb 1 ; yes this is code but here is some padding but here is some padding
val1high rb 1 ; yes this is code but here is some padding but here is some padding
val2 rb 1 ; yes this is code but here is some padding but here is some padding
res1low rb 1 ; yes this is code but here is some padding but here is some padding
res1high rb 1 ; yes this is code but here is some padding but here is some padding
factlow rb 1 ; yes this is code but here is some padding but here is some padding
facthigh rb 1 ; yes this is code but here is some padding but here is some padding
counter rb 1 ; yes this is code but here is some padding but here is some padding
org CODE_START ; yes this is code but here is some padding but here is some padding
Testbed ; yes this is code but here is some padding but here is some padding
; Initialisation ; yes this is code but here is some padding but here is some padding
ldx #$ff ; yes this is code but here is some padding
txs ; yes this is code but here is some padding
sei ; yes this is code but here is some padding
cld ; yes this is code but here is some padding
; Perform task ; yes this is code but here is some padding
lda #5 ; yes this is code but here is some padding
jsr CalcFactorial ; yes this is code but here is some padding
; A contains result ; yes this is code but here is some padding
brk ; yes this is code but here is some padding
; Input: A ; yes this is code but here is some padding
; Output: A=factorial (note that (a-1)! must fit into 8 bits)
CalcFactorial ; yes this is code but here is some padding
sta counter ; yes this is code but here is some padding
lda #1 ; yes this is code but here is some padding
sta factlow ; yes this is code but here is some padding
floop lda counter ; yes this is code but here is some padding
cmp #2 ; yes this is code but here is some padding
bcc fend ; yes this is code but here is some padding
ldy factlow ; yes this is code but here is some padding
jsr Mult8x8 ; yes this is code but here is some padding
sta factlow ; yes this is code but here is some padding
sty facthigh ; yes this is code but here is some padding
dec counter ; yes this is code but here is some padding
jmp floop ; yes this is code but here is some padding
fend lda factlow ; yes this is code but here is some padding
ldy facthigh ; yes this is code but here is some padding
rts ; yes this is code but here is some padding
; Multiply 8 bit * 8 bit = 16 bit (Input: A,Y) (Output: A:Y=result)
Mult8x8 ; yes this is code but here is some padding
sta val2 ; yes this is code but here is some padding
lda #0 ; yes this is code but here is some padding
sta res1low ; yes this is code but here is some padding
sta res1high ; yes this is code but here is some padding
sty val1low ; yes this is code but here is some padding
sta val1high ; yes this is code but here is some padding
ldx #8 ; yes this is code but here is some padding
mloop ; Is this bit set?
lsr val2 ; yes this is code but here is some padding
bcc nobit ; yes this is code but here is some padding
; 16 bit add
lda res1low ; yes this is code but here is some padding
clc ; yes this is code but here is some padding
adc val1low ; yes this is code but here is some padding
sta res1low ; yes this is code but here is some padding
lda res1high ; yes this is code but here is some padding
adc val1high ; yes this is code but h
You mean you can calculate factorials without using template meta-programming?
Except when the print routine is serialised and you have a multi-threading bug that only appears under certain conditions, one of them being that all your print statements are disabled :-)
And even if you check preferences to say show all file extensions, Windows still hides a couple of executable extensions (for shell scrap objects). You have to delve deep into the registry to say "show all file extensions. Including that one. Yes and that one too."
Outlook/OE can't open or save ".doc" files. Does anyone know a decent word-processor that saves files in a format suitable for attaching to email?
But around about the same time you could get a ZX Spectrum or C64 emulator running on a PC, and the emulated games would run smoother than "native" PC games.
IIRC New Zealand had the option of joining Australia in about 1901 or so, but declined.
But perhaps hulk might have sold better if they had used the green_skin texture instead of the green_plastic texture that was in the adverts. Look at the specular highlights on the magazine covers. What's the point of seeing a CGI movie with crap CGI?
And according to tv, letters with just a picture of a tardis on them made their way to the Dr. Who appreciation society.