While I understand that the situation in the US is that if you stop at a house to ask for directions, you can be shot on sight, the UK has or at least used to have different laws.
Trespassing per se was not a crime. So you can stand in someones yard or unlocked house without committing a crime. Of course if you do criminal damage that *is* a crime. Breaking and entering is a crime - entering an open door is not.
If you want to extend the analogy to hacking, if someone puts their info on a web server with default security set to "serve all files to anyone who asks", that should not be a crime to view. If you are creating a special stack-smashing packet that happens to kill version 2.78.2a of a web server, that might be another matter.
Probably most of the US funded ones do (IRA, contras etc.) but the Muslim ones no doubt carry small watering cans into the toilet to wipe their bums with. And get it (the water) all over the floor. Argh!
Pah, there's a broadband cable and junction box passing 10 metres in front of my block of flats in London, but our chances of getting access to it (which would involve digging up a private road) are slim to say the least. I imagine tapping into an offshore cable is non-trivial from both physical and economic points of view...
Well, since my PS2 can play normal DVDs full-screen without doing m-m-m-max head-head-headroomomom impersonations-ations-ations, and my Windows PC (which in theory is several times faster) can't, I think I'll wait until they can do that before I hold my breath.
Well, there are communities of people who write new games for the Atari 2600, C64 (with or without megabytes of RAM), Game Boy Advance. Perhaps you might find some joy there.
That's one word I do find offensive. Nigger/Negro/Nigre/Noir/Schwarz etc. are just words for black in another language.
But as far as I know faggot means a bundle of sticks used for kindling wood. I.e. someone who is burned at the stake. I am not keen on being burned at the stake (or the muslim equivalents, being stoned/decapitated/cast into quicklime) so I find this offensive.
"Fag" for cigarette seems to be obviously from the same route.
On the other hand, "shirtlifter" seems quite innocent...:-)
Nope, my keyboard (for a Pentium based machine, not exactly that old!) won't fit into new fangled machines with their skinny little keyboard ports. I think they must have shrunk the ports about 5 years ago.
And floppy disks seem to be smaller now too; I haven't seen a 5 1/4 incher for a while...
I read that there are two Compaq servers running around in vans (not sealed against dust unfortunately) which control the battlefield system to ensure against friendly fire.
I wonder what standard programs they are running. Best not say though, since that would give a list of known security holes.
Gosh, all this effort each year just to make fun of people who still think April 1st is the first day of the year. I.e. the tax departments of the world, who don't care what that uppity new guy Julius Caesar says, starting the year in January will never catch on.
but in the olden days we had RAM disks to put temporary files on. If virtual memory is effectively write-through rather than write-back, that might explain the poorer performance these days.
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Making a bunch of 30x30 sprites (and that would have been LARGE back "in the day") doesn't require the intervention of an artist.
Whoah! I have to disagree with you there. Artists entered the industry in the 8 bit days and were very much needed. "Programmer graphics" is a well-used insult. We may be able to draw 8*8 monochrome characters (e.g. text) but when you get up to 16*16 by 4 colours, you really need an artist, or an artist/programmer, not a straight "i can't draw for toffee" programmer like myself.
Even for icons in tools, artists make an improvement in looks (a specialist graphic designer might be even more useful).
Like waiting 5 minutes for a one line change to compile and link.
Perhaps some people should try modularising the projects better; I have the same problem on a project I am helping with.
My personal style is normally not to #include every damn header file in the world in every other header file, and then make most of the functions inline, but other people do that. And for good measure turn off precompiled headers.:-(
During compilation its only using 50% cpu anyway; does microsoft scatter sleep(10) calls throughout its code or something? Or is the disk caching totally useless:-( </rant>
The management put me up in a hotel for a month to finish off a project (working at the hotel instead of the noisy office, sleeping at home). Despite the fact that I lived ten minutes walk from work (the hotel was in between). It got done and was a big success, but it must have cost them money! (Maybe that was the point, to show the client that they were spending money on the problem).
You get started on work, and then the artist on another project starts playing his "music" loudly, and/or screaming at irregular intervals "me paul young! me paul young!" (I don't think that was what he was listening to).
Of course managers are off in their offices so they don't have to put up with it...
That can be done on GBA using software, i.e. displaying luma at three times the horizontal resolution of chroma. There are high-colour bitmap modes that can be used. It's simply a case of can the coders for a particular title be bothered to use it (e.g. for static images/FMV). Admittedly the hardware sprites don't do this.
What I find so funny is pictures of American sportsman decked out in huge body armour, so that they look like war correspondants in a battlefield. Have you never seen a game of Rugby?:-)
The wonderful bookshop Foyles was organised for many years by publisher, and still partly is.
I sometimes think "hey, I wonder if the latest Addison-Wesley book is out yet." Luckily they are kept separate from the SAMs books and the...for dummies ones, so I have less to search.:-)
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Trespassing per se was not a crime. So you can stand in someones yard or unlocked house without committing a crime. Of course if you do criminal damage that *is* a crime. Breaking and entering is a crime - entering an open door is not.
If you want to extend the analogy to hacking, if someone puts their info on a web server with default security set to "serve all files to anyone who asks", that should not be a crime to view. If you are creating a special stack-smashing packet that happens to kill version 2.78.2a of a web server, that might be another matter.
But surely a yoke (which does have a steering wheel in it for banking) is more fun than one of those namby-pamby fly-by-wire joysticks :-)
The US has always been at war with Eurasia. Or was it Oceania?
What were the GPS co-ordinates of that meeting again? And which service pack of Windows is the US air force currently running?
Probably most of the US funded ones do (IRA, contras etc.) but the Muslim ones no doubt carry small watering cans into the toilet to wipe their bums with. And get it (the water) all over the floor. Argh!
Hunt the Wumpus and Hangman should be enough for anyone.
You mean like Boutros-boutros-boutros Ghali?
Pah, there's a broadband cable and junction box passing 10 metres in front of my block of flats in London, but our chances of getting access to it (which would involve digging up a private road) are slim to say the least. I imagine tapping into an offshore cable is non-trivial from both physical and economic points of view...
Well, since my PS2 can play normal DVDs full-screen without doing m-m-m-max head-head-headroomomom impersonations-ations-ations, and my Windows PC (which in theory is several times faster) can't, I think I'll wait until they can do that before I hold my breath.
Well, there are communities of people who write new games for the Atari 2600, C64 (with or without megabytes of RAM), Game Boy Advance. Perhaps you might find some joy there.
But as far as I know faggot means a bundle of sticks used for kindling wood. I.e. someone who is burned at the stake. I am not keen on being burned at the stake (or the muslim equivalents, being stoned/decapitated/cast into quicklime) so I find this offensive.
"Fag" for cigarette seems to be obviously from the same route.
On the other hand, "shirtlifter" seems quite innocent... :-)
And floppy disks seem to be smaller now too; I haven't seen a 5 1/4 incher for a while...
I wonder what standard programs they are running. Best not say though, since that would give a list of known security holes.
Let's hope you're very, very good.
Gosh, all this effort each year just to make fun of people who still think April 1st is the first day of the year. I.e. the tax departments of the world, who don't care what that uppity new guy Julius Caesar says, starting the year in January will never catch on.
but in the olden days we had RAM disks to put temporary files on. If virtual memory is effectively write-through rather than write-back, that might explain the poorer performance these days.
Making a bunch of 30x30 sprites (and that would have been LARGE back "in the day") doesn't require the intervention of an artist.
Whoah! I have to disagree with you there. Artists entered the industry in the 8 bit days and were very much needed. "Programmer graphics" is a well-used insult. We may be able to draw 8*8 monochrome characters (e.g. text) but when you get up to 16*16 by 4 colours, you really need an artist, or an artist/programmer, not a straight "i can't draw for toffee" programmer like myself.
Even for icons in tools, artists make an improvement in looks (a specialist graphic designer might be even more useful).
Perhaps some people should try modularising the projects better; I have the same problem on a project I am helping with.
My personal style is normally not to #include every damn header file in the world in every other header file, and then make most of the functions inline, but other people do that. And for good measure turn off precompiled headers. :-(
During compilation its only using 50% cpu anyway; does microsoft scatter sleep(10) calls throughout its code or something? Or is the disk caching totally useless :-( </rant>
The management put me up in a hotel for a month to finish off a project (working at the hotel instead of the noisy office, sleeping at home). Despite the fact that I lived ten minutes walk from work (the hotel was in between). It got done and was a big success, but it must have cost them money! (Maybe that was the point, to show the client that they were spending money on the problem).
She was from mainland China. Maybe that's where they are all hiding.
Of course managers are off in their offices so they don't have to put up with it...
That can be done on GBA using software, i.e. displaying luma at three times the horizontal resolution of chroma. There are high-colour bitmap modes that can be used. It's simply a case of can the coders for a particular title be bothered to use it (e.g. for static images/FMV). Admittedly the hardware sprites don't do this.
Robot Wars and Scrap Heap Challenge aren't quite the same :-(
What I find so funny is pictures of American sportsman decked out in huge body armour, so that they look like war correspondants in a battlefield. Have you never seen a game of Rugby? :-)
The wonderful bookshop Foyles was organised for many years by publisher, and still partly is.
I sometimes think "hey, I wonder if the latest Addison-Wesley book is out yet." Luckily they are kept separate from the SAMs books and the ...for dummies ones, so I have less to search. :-)
Not to mention that Pacman is currently in the top ten of the GBA charts, and has been for some weeks.