There was this Bollywood film advertised as being the story of this great king who spread Buddhism across India. I went to see it hoping for some insight. It turned out to be four hours of blood and gore as he rampaged across the sub-continent and killed the people he loved.
And at the very end of the film there was a text screen saying "oh, and after this he converted to buddhism and became a nice guy." Argh!
Christmas Island, of disturbing pictures fame, is run by australia and close to the equator. But despite asylum seekers' notions to the contrary it lacks a decent deep-water port.
Is for one person to read out their number, the other person rings it without answering, and you both type in names on the "last dialled" / "missed calls" lists of your phones without having been charged by either network!
The only problem is the stalker with hyper hearing who also notes down the number while one of you is saying it aloud, but that is easily fixed by having one person dial their number on the other persons phone, as long as you like them enough to not worry about whether their hands are sticky or not.
I heard that a university used a technique whereby graphics were saved to RAM and then restored when an overlying graphical menu was removed. Some company then patented this technique and sued the university for it.
Just because you invented something doesn't mean that a patent holder can't sue you (and win) - it's the person who first patents it who gets the rights, not the first inventor). IANAL.
Underneath the Apple ][ keyboard was a little rocker switch, which would change the graphical representation of # to £. This seemed a bit strange since surely that would mean your spreadsheet could not display #1 and £50 on the same page!
Yeah, when I was a kid at school I wrote a simple compiler that compiled a usable subset of BASIC down into bit-code (none of this wasteful byte-code malarky!:-) and then executed it with a simple execution unit. My test program came down to half the size of (tokenised) BASIC program, and ran five times as fast... Of course it still used the O/S for some I/O which added a few Kbytes of ROM requirements (and 1K of RAM).
Just imagine a stack machine with huffman-ish operators
is an offence. If you don't have a good reason to be carrying it they can do you. A screwdriver counts. Of course, nerds get "stop-and-search"ed less often than other groups...
Low-quality mobile phones are given away in cornflakes packets in the UK:-)
The majority of new subscribers are on pay-as-you-go, which is a nominal charge for a handset and then paying for service (with the result that young people often cannot make outgoing (non-emergency) calls because they have temporarily run out of credit).
That is/was the real pain with 80286 and 65816 architectures - segments/banks. The CPUs could address 20/24 bits but only process 16. That sort of thing is rife in the mainframe world too (Big Iron - the people that brought you 9 bit bytes, EBCDIC and 6 character function names)
And yes, I do realise that 2048 bits is generally 32 bits float * 4 channels * 16 pixels/texels per cycle. But I was having a dig at Intel, whose adverts seem to show that the Pentium brand lets you read CD-rom drives, access the internet and get high texture fill-rates, when with some games, it almost is a housekeeping chip.
are also famous for not having money, and leaving university thousands of pounds/dollars in debt. I think the year before they go, when they are sponging off their parents, is probably a better time to extract money from them.
I see mickey/donald etc. on the shelves every time I visit netherlands/italy/spain/greece etc. but it seems they have not bothered to translate any of their comics into English.
Which seems a shame. I guess if only there was a longer copyright term, Walt Disney might have an incentive to translate them into english.
Hey, I used to feel guilty about vacuuming up the little bats and mice, especially since they so much so wanted to live, and why were you killing them anyway? It reminds me a little of the time at the chicken hatchery when I had to put the four legged / two headed chickens into the mincer... peep, peep, peep, kwiiish...
Which created lots of treasured content, then wiped over the video tapes to save money by reusing them, and stored original films in a room with a leaky roof and pools of water on the floor.
they'd join in with "My country tis of thee..." (same tune, different lyrics. In the beginning all national anthems were the same:-) but then the americans got a new tune with their anthem about rockets and bombs, allegedly for the 1896 olympics(?)
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And at the very end of the film there was a text screen saying "oh, and after this he converted to buddhism and became a nice guy." Argh!
Christmas Island, of disturbing pictures fame, is run by australia and close to the equator. But despite asylum seekers' notions to the contrary it lacks a decent deep-water port.
The only problem is the stalker with hyper hearing who also notes down the number while one of you is saying it aloud, but that is easily fixed by having one person dial their number on the other persons phone, as long as you like them enough to not worry about whether their hands are sticky or not.
My bar's too stingy for beer mats anyway.
Just because you invented something doesn't mean that a patent holder can't sue you (and win) - it's the person who first patents it who gets the rights, not the first inventor). IANAL.
Underneath the Apple ][ keyboard was a little rocker switch, which would change the graphical representation of # to £. This seemed a bit strange since surely that would mean your spreadsheet could not display #1 and £50 on the same page!
Just imagine a stack machine with huffman-ish operators
is an offence. If you don't have a good reason to be carrying it they can do you. A screwdriver counts. Of course, nerds get "stop-and-search"ed less often than other groups...
The majority of new subscribers are on pay-as-you-go, which is a nominal charge for a handset and then paying for service (with the result that young people often cannot make outgoing (non-emergency) calls because they have temporarily run out of credit).
And yes, I do realise that 2048 bits is generally 32 bits float * 4 channels * 16 pixels/texels per cycle. But I was having a dig at Intel, whose adverts seem to show that the Pentium brand lets you read CD-rom drives, access the internet and get high texture fill-rates, when with some games, it almost is a housekeeping chip.
Do you want your eyes plucked out to get around a problem you have had?
You mean Watford.
And pay-as-you go phones are still anonymous aren't they? And make up 2/3rds of mobiles.
Well apart from New Zealanders and Icelanders of course :-)
are also famous for not having money, and leaving university thousands of pounds/dollars in debt. I think the year before they go, when they are sponging off their parents, is probably a better time to extract money from them.
Or are we talking about the housekeeping processor that keeps track of scores and stuff?
Which seems a shame. I guess if only there was a longer copyright term, Walt Disney might have an incentive to translate them into english.
Hey, I used to feel guilty about vacuuming up the little bats and mice, especially since they so much so wanted to live, and why were you killing them anyway? It reminds me a little of the time at the chicken hatchery when I had to put the four legged / two headed chickens into the mincer... peep, peep, peep, kwiiish...
Written by Dave Perry and published by Virgin in 1993 I think. He wrote Global Gladiators (McDonalds) as well...
A complete game based on (non-core) McDonalds characters, years ago. I think Dave Perry (Earthworm Jim/Aladdin/etc. etc.) wrote that.
Is that still there at the crossroads?
Which created lots of treasured content, then wiped over the video tapes to save money by reusing them, and stored original films in a room with a leaky roof and pools of water on the floor.
"This is Edison speaking. This, th-th-th-this this, th-th-th-th-this is Edison Ed-ed-edison speaking"...
It's a bit hissy though (recorded on a cheap tape from a wind-up gramophone).
An online resource just makes that sort of thing too easy :-)
The only slight problem was that he doesn't drive :-)
They make tasty soft drinks as well.
they'd join in with "My country tis of thee..." (same tune, different lyrics. In the beginning all national anthems were the same :-) but then the americans got a new tune with their anthem about rockets and bombs, allegedly for the 1896 olympics(?)