Now that the (UK keyboard) shift keys are eaten away by a backslash and a euro, and the space bar has two ctrls, three windows keys and two alt keys alongside it, how long before it ends up being the size of the zx spectrums space key?
99% of my spam is american. And I don't live there. There is the occasional british message (about all the spare IT/C++ jobs in london, once a week or so) german message (once a month from Helga) or chinese message (once every three months in gibberish) but the rest is written in USian.
This happened all the time - our house was connected via overhead wires and cars liked to crash into the poles.
So we just used candles for lighting, wound up the gramophone (yup we still have it - lovely edison beast) or played the piano, used the hand pump for water (tiring!) and lit the (efficient) wood fire. I'm not sure if it had a wetback (for hot water) or not.
The only pain was the freezer defrosting, since we didn't have an icebox, which means some food needs to be eaten quick (wood barbeque) or wasted.
Don't forget the "IBM confidential" farce. Lawyers argued that since some empty forms had "ibm confidential" written on them and obviously weren't that confidential had no meaning and that therefore the filled in forms were fair game.
So ibm had to change the forms to say "ibm confidential when filled in".
Water is most dense at 4 degrees celcius. So when the oceans get warmer than that, it will expand. When you consider how deep the ocean is, even less than 1 percent expansion would not be pleasant.
The Russians. Because when the USA sent a copy of the microsoft spreadsheet over that the USA uses to keep track of weapons grade materials (asking the russians to use it too), the russians spotted errors in the processing which meant that the numbers didn't tally up correctly.
He is the one getting the US out of non-proliferation treaties. Because he thinks the world needs loads more small portable nukes (and more biological and chemical weapons too of course).
Congress on the other hand is the one who is signing money over to pay for it all.
Wouldn't it be easier to go to a restaurant instead of learning how to cook?
We are a very specialised society at the moment, but learning a teensy bit about hardware (via FPGAs) should be part of every rounded programmers diet, just as many basic algorithms (e.g. how to multiply two numbers in binary) or data structures (e.g. that a float contains a sign, exponent, mantissa) should be lurking in the back of your head. Now if only I had time to follow that advice and write some cores:-) (I was tempted to get a standard FPGA kit but this and the commodore one both appeal instead).
Hah, I know a good book... hmm finally there is 1 used copy on amazon.com so I'm bidding for it. Can't tell you what it is but it was published in 1983.:-)
Magazines such as "computer and video games" were available in little bookshops in the villages where I grew up and had full type-in listings of games. The populist books were available from shops that sold home computers, and some were around in general bookshops also.
A 68000 costs $3. That's too much for a mass-produced toy, but not much for a homebrew kit. And with that you get something powerful enough to run C. But maybe that's the point of the kit - teach kids assembly rather than lazing away with high level languages.
Well the base C64 has redefinable character set, unlike the base NES (sure some cartridges added VRAM but going by that principle you might as well say the C64 runs at 16Mhz with 2Mbytes ram).
And raster interrupts (requires an MM3 chip or better on NES).
So there were some things it could do better, e.g. 3d games. The most stupid thing about the C64 is that it could be so much better with that level of technology if they simply added a double buffer for the colour RAM, and full 9 bit/8 bit registers for the scroll (instead of 3 bit/3 bit). That would have meant games not spending most of their time blitting stuff around instead of doing something useful. Oh and some people say they should have hooked up the I/O chips properly to the I/O ports, increasing the disk drive transfer rate by a factor of 25 or so (with the screen turned on).
If they had of asked simply, "Should Australia be a Republic", it would have been a dominant majority.
And you would have got the same broken scheme. Aren't you glad they actually spelled it out instead?
If you have a referendum which says "(a) status quo. (b) change" then you either have to follow it with a different referendum (as NZ did when they went to proportional representation) or you get stuck at halfway house like the UK house of lords where they got rid of heriditeries but didn't introduce elections, leaving appointees.
The Queen of Great Britain (England/Wales, Scotland) and Northern Ireland is also the Queen of Canada (AFAIK) and the Queen of Australia (they had a vote recently - she won) (and New Zealand for that matter).
And surely the descendants of those slave-owning native-land-grabbing rebels (Thomas Jefferson et al) will soon be back in the fold once they realise their mistake... just as the renegade mainland will rejoin taiwan.
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Now that the (UK keyboard) shift keys are eaten away by a backslash and a euro, and the space bar has two ctrls, three windows keys and two alt keys alongside it, how long before it ends up being the size of the zx spectrums space key?
Used to crash if you pressed the "windows" key, losing all your work. As a result, artists would rip the windows key out of the new-fangled keyboards.
A portable wind-up Simon Cowell doll.
Wind up your gramophone. The sound quality might not be as good as some DVDs but it's less tiring than singing.
99% of my spam is american. And I don't live there. There is the occasional british message (about all the spare IT/C++ jobs in london, once a week or so) german message (once a month from Helga) or chinese message (once every three months in gibberish) but the rest is written in USian.
Who saw that and thought lda #254, $e2 - wtf, illegal opcode? :-)
So we just used candles for lighting, wound up the gramophone (yup we still have it - lovely edison beast) or played the piano, used the hand pump for water (tiring!) and lit the (efficient) wood fire. I'm not sure if it had a wetback (for hot water) or not.
The only pain was the freezer defrosting, since we didn't have an icebox, which means some food needs to be eaten quick (wood barbeque) or wasted.
Hmm, seems to be still up. I wonder if New York will be down for 5 weeks like Auckland was.
So ibm had to change the forms to say "ibm confidential when filled in".
Is this true or an urban myth?
Please ignore this post if it turns out to be bin laden and saddam having a go at you and this is in bad taste.
Water is most dense at 4 degrees celcius. So when the oceans get warmer than that, it will expand. When you consider how deep the ocean is, even less than 1 percent expansion would not be pleasant.
The Russians. Because when the USA sent a copy of the microsoft spreadsheet over that the USA uses to keep track of weapons grade materials (asking the russians to use it too), the russians spotted errors in the processing which meant that the numbers didn't tally up correctly.
Let me introduce you to the 20th century. Terrorists have these things called "cars" which are strong enough to carry lead cannisters.
Congress on the other hand is the one who is signing money over to pay for it all.
Hey, I bought it. It's OK. The framerate's a bit slow :-)
In Thailand and other countries where an educated population is seen as helpful, the age is 18. When I went to school it was 14 :-)
Still the USA would never try protectionist tariffs to favour local companies would it? :-)
We are a very specialised society at the moment, but learning a teensy bit about hardware (via FPGAs) should be part of every rounded programmers diet, just as many basic algorithms (e.g. how to multiply two numbers in binary) or data structures (e.g. that a float contains a sign, exponent, mantissa) should be lurking in the back of your head. Now if only I had time to follow that advice and write some cores :-) (I was tempted to get a standard FPGA kit but this and the commodore one both appeal instead).
Why would they not just put analog filters after the DACs? Low-res shouldn't necessary mean jaggy lines.
Hah, I know a good book... hmm finally there is 1 used copy on amazon.com so I'm bidding for it. Can't tell you what it is but it was published in 1983. :-)
Magazines such as "computer and video games" were available in little bookshops in the villages where I grew up and had full type-in listings of games. The populist books were available from shops that sold home computers, and some were around in general bookshops also.
A 68000 costs $3. That's too much for a mass-produced toy, but not much for a homebrew kit. And with that you get something powerful enough to run C. But maybe that's the point of the kit - teach kids assembly rather than lazing away with high level languages.
So there were some things it could do better, e.g. 3d games. The most stupid thing about the C64 is that it could be so much better with that level of technology if they simply added a double buffer for the colour RAM, and full 9 bit/8 bit registers for the scroll (instead of 3 bit/3 bit). That would have meant games not spending most of their time blitting stuff around instead of doing something useful. Oh and some people say they should have hooked up the I/O chips properly to the I/O ports, increasing the disk drive transfer rate by a factor of 25 or so (with the screen turned on).
And you would have got the same broken scheme. Aren't you glad they actually spelled it out instead?
If you have a referendum which says "(a) status quo. (b) change" then you either have to follow it with a different referendum (as NZ did when they went to proportional representation) or you get stuck at halfway house like the UK house of lords where they got rid of heriditeries but didn't introduce elections, leaving appointees.
And surely the descendants of those slave-owning native-land-grabbing rebels (Thomas Jefferson et al) will soon be back in the fold once they realise their mistake... just as the renegade mainland will rejoin taiwan.