Once, a long time ago, people wrote code in assembly.
In my case, last Thursday... not every computer chip in the world is made by Intel you know. In fast, desktop chips are a tiny minority of the chips in your house, although they may employ more programmers.
On the other hand, most of my code was in C, but the compiler is inefficient enough that I'm going to have to rewrite chunks of code in assembler to get acceptable performance.
And if our client can save 10 cents a unit by removing one hardware component and causing us to rewrite the code, they will definitely tell us to do that.:-(
you could do better by joining a construction site.
Yeah, that sounds like a sensible move in a *worldwide global shutdown* of property development due to a *global mortgage crisis*. Last I heard, Dubai was shipping construction workers home by the plane load, and the UK building industry had ground to a halt. I don't know what the situation is like where you live though (the US government spent a few trillion dollars bailing out mortgage companies) but I'm not convinced that that is the best industry to join in the coming year. Constructing a new power-grid/series of eco-power stations for the government maybe.
Well I was talking about optomechanical mice there (shining LEDs through a rotating grating, instead of video processing a picture of your desk), which might be a little out of date now, so if you have a new PC your mileage may vary. Winbond are/were a major manufacturer for mice chips based on 6502 chips lets say five years ago (no patents and licensing fees there), but this year they have been spun off into Nuvoton, which apparently uses the "CompactRISC 16" CPU from National Semiconductor. I guess 16 bits is so cheap now they can use it even for mice and keyboards. It looks roughly the same power as the chips I am using at the moment (hopefully less banking involved) which are doing rather more than managing a keyboard.
The moderate version of Islam isn't found in the mideast or Africa, where Obama's associations are all located.
Oh boy, you must have a different map of the world from what I have, because in my map of the world (on my living room wall) Indonesia is in south-east Asia, between the Philippines and Australia. OK he has long-lost relatives in Kenya (a mostly christian country) but he didn't even meet them until he was 27 years old.
And I think the fact that none of the rest of us have ever heard of those chips/companies proves the GP's point.
Well if you only look at "name brand" stuff advertised on tv, instead of the components that go into it:-)
Do you think your mouse runs by magic? No, it may well have an 8 bit CPU based on a *cut-down* 6502 (who needs a Y register after all...) by WinBond in it (or equivalent).
Admittedly the mighty ARM is all-conquering, but SunPlus group design their own chip which is (in various forms) in tens of millions or maybe hundreds of millions of toys on the shelves of Walmart. And finally they have admitted to its design with a website that actually contains real information! (Well probably not about the variants that have sound processing and graphics processing, but the core CPU is described. Now if only it described the object file relocation info format...).
And the ARM itself is getting a little... bloated... perhaps, after so many years.
There is a significant group that not only believe in the teachings of books such as Leviticus, but they believe everything there is the literal truth.
Do they shave or trim their beard? (forbidden by Leviticus) Do they wear clothing of more than one fabric (e.g. poly-cotton)? (forbidden) Do they follow the hygiene rules? Do they keep Saturday holy? Basically, do they behave like Hassidic Jews (who I can at least respect for being consistent with what they claim to believe)? If not, then they don't believe in Leviticus being still in force, and probably haven't even bothered to spend the half-hour reading it.
I do love exaggeration on occasion, but if anything those were gross understatements.
You obviously haven't seen the EU regulations! They are here and vary by animal. For cattle it is 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit)(with 5 degrees leeway).
Sheriff Joe Arpaio keeps inmates in tents in temperatures allegedly up to 138 degrees F (58 degrees Celsius). That is considerably worse!
As for FPMITA prison, that comes up every single time prison is mentioned on Slashdot, I am assuming primarily from Americans. It also is one of the most archetypal themes in US male-on-male porn films, unlike in the EU.
To the country where they make jokes about the inevitability of prison rape (FPYITA prison), and the Arizona sheriff who keeps people in conditions that the EU would not let animals on the way to slaughter be kept? I think not.
Oh, you mean KoTR which has "DRM" on it which means that the store bought copy does not actually run on a store bought PC? Bastards. I should have pirated it instead, at least then it might have worked. Luckily, there are professional platforms out there which you can buy working games for.
Um, we are talking the USA aren't we, where lying for profit is a constitutional right?
Just look at the advertisements in any popular "scientific" magazine from the USA and you will see ads for magic water that has hydrogen bond angles different from normal water, and gym equipment that can make you a muscleman in just two minutes a day.
It is quite clear that there is no ASA (advertising standards agency) over there, and as for the political advertisements...
Well this video proves that a 14Mhz Mac Classic is faster than a Dual-core multi-gigahertz PC running Vista.
I think to beat the Mac and the PC, the 1Mhz C64 would have to be running Warp 25 on a 1541 floppy disk drive though (6 seconds to load any program), and I am not sure that is compatible with GEOS (which uses its own file system). Although if it had a hard-drive it could probably beat Vista into the dust on that challenge.
Unless you buy it within daylight hours from a marketplace within the bounds of the City of London, IIRC:-) Gotta love those legacy laws and concessions...
Don't forget the "Top Gear" show where they got second-hand non-4wd cars to drive across Africa (well, Botswana anyway) to prove that "Chelsea Tractors" were unnecessary. Although the VW beetle came out the best in that.
Well it's got one of my games in there, (not the other one alas - big seller but not critically acclaimed) so I should really get a copy. But I normally get such things through Amazon (or on the shelf at Foyles) rather than via someone's homepage (apart from people I know). I wonder why he didn't go through the "print-on-demand" process that some online booksellers offer...
I hope not - it hasn't exactly been a shining beacon of democracy in the last couple of years. But maybe there would be some merit in putting the Clinton/Bush/Kennedy families into the Great Council of Chiefs and keeping them out of the executive for a while.
While my pay was less than $800 a month in the army,
Ouch, I think a London bus driver makes nearly that a week, including overtime, and that is considered low-paid. You probably got full board as well, but "key workers" often get subsidised housing here. Not that I am saying nurses and teachers need military training these days...
What exactly is it the US produces now, other than food? Knowledge?
Bombs of course. The US makes bombs, which it sells to dictators for dollars. The dictators get these dollars by selling oil to China. The Chinese get them from the US by making actual useful stuff. And so the triangle is complete.
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In my case, last Thursday... not every computer chip in the world is made by Intel you know. In fast, desktop chips are a tiny minority of the chips in your house, although they may employ more programmers.
On the other hand, most of my code was in C, but the compiler is inefficient enough that I'm going to have to rewrite chunks of code in assembler to get acceptable performance.
And if our client can save 10 cents a unit by removing one hardware component and causing us to rewrite the code, they will definitely tell us to do that. :-(
Yeah, that sounds like a sensible move in a *worldwide global shutdown* of property development due to a *global mortgage crisis*. Last I heard, Dubai was shipping construction workers home by the plane load, and the UK building industry had ground to a halt. I don't know what the situation is like where you live though (the US government spent a few trillion dollars bailing out mortgage companies) but I'm not convinced that that is the best industry to join in the coming year. Constructing a new power-grid/series of eco-power stations for the government maybe.
Well I was talking about optomechanical mice there (shining LEDs through a rotating grating, instead of video processing a picture of your desk), which might be a little out of date now, so if you have a new PC your mileage may vary. Winbond are/were a major manufacturer for mice chips based on 6502 chips lets say five years ago (no patents and licensing fees there), but this year they have been spun off into Nuvoton, which apparently uses the "CompactRISC 16" CPU from National Semiconductor. I guess 16 bits is so cheap now they can use it even for mice and keyboards. It looks roughly the same power as the chips I am using at the moment (hopefully less banking involved) which are doing rather more than managing a keyboard.
Oh boy, you must have a different map of the world from what I have, because in my map of the world (on my living room wall) Indonesia is in south-east Asia, between the Philippines and Australia. OK he has long-lost relatives in Kenya (a mostly christian country) but he didn't even meet them until he was 27 years old.
Well if you only look at "name brand" stuff advertised on tv, instead of the components that go into it :-)
Do you think your mouse runs by magic? No, it may well have an 8 bit CPU based on a *cut-down* 6502 (who needs a Y register after all...) by WinBond in it (or equivalent).
Admittedly the mighty ARM is all-conquering, but SunPlus group design their own chip which is (in various forms) in tens of millions or maybe hundreds of millions of toys on the shelves of Walmart. And finally they have admitted to its design with a website that actually contains real information! (Well probably not about the variants that have sound processing and graphics processing, but the core CPU is described. Now if only it described the object file relocation info format...).
And the ARM itself is getting a little... bloated... perhaps, after so many years.
Do they shave or trim their beard? (forbidden by Leviticus) Do they wear clothing of more than one fabric (e.g. poly-cotton)? (forbidden) Do they follow the hygiene rules? Do they keep Saturday holy? Basically, do they behave like Hassidic Jews (who I can at least respect for being consistent with what they claim to believe)? If not, then they don't believe in Leviticus being still in force, and probably haven't even bothered to spend the half-hour reading it.
I do love exaggeration on occasion, but if anything those were gross understatements.
You obviously haven't seen the EU regulations! They are here and vary by animal. For cattle it is 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit)(with 5 degrees leeway).
Sheriff Joe Arpaio keeps inmates in tents in temperatures allegedly up to 138 degrees F (58 degrees Celsius). That is considerably worse!
As for FPMITA prison, that comes up every single time prison is mentioned on Slashdot, I am assuming primarily from Americans. It also is one of the most archetypal themes in US male-on-male porn films, unlike in the EU.
To the country where they make jokes about the inevitability of prison rape (FPYITA prison), and the Arizona sheriff who keeps people in conditions that the EU would not let animals on the way to slaughter be kept? I think not.
Oh, you mean KoTR which has "DRM" on it which means that the store bought copy does not actually run on a store bought PC? Bastards. I should have pirated it instead, at least then it might have worked. Luckily, there are professional platforms out there which you can buy working games for.
Do you work in the financial services industry?
mumble, mumble, iPhone devkits, mumble argh.
Um, we are talking the USA aren't we, where lying for profit is a constitutional right?
Just look at the advertisements in any popular "scientific" magazine from the USA and you will see ads for magic water that has hydrogen bond angles different from normal water, and gym equipment that can make you a muscleman in just two minutes a day.
It is quite clear that there is no ASA (advertising standards agency) over there, and as for the political advertisements...
Any language that doesn't scale well to real work :-)
Not if his name was Timbaland. He'd be feted by the RIAA instead for raising the profile of games music composers.
I think to beat the Mac and the PC, the 1Mhz C64 would have to be running Warp 25 on a 1541 floppy disk drive though (6 seconds to load any program), and I am not sure that is compatible with GEOS (which uses its own file system). Although if it had a hard-drive it could probably beat Vista into the dust on that challenge.
Unless you buy it within daylight hours from a marketplace within the bounds of the City of London, IIRC :-) Gotta love those legacy laws and concessions...
IIRC the skylab death in australia was from someone who had a heart attack after dreaming they were being hit by it!
Don't forget the "Top Gear" show where they got second-hand non-4wd cars to drive across Africa (well, Botswana anyway) to prove that "Chelsea Tractors" were unnecessary. Although the VW beetle came out the best in that.
Well it's got one of my games in there, (not the other one alas - big seller but not critically acclaimed) so I should really get a copy. But I normally get such things through Amazon (or on the shelf at Foyles) rather than via someone's homepage (apart from people I know). I wonder why he didn't go through the "print-on-demand" process that some online booksellers offer...
There were tape alignment programs for adjusting that. God knows how they worked.
Did he change his name to Jive Bunny afterwards? ;-)
I hope not - it hasn't exactly been a shining beacon of democracy in the last couple of years. But maybe there would be some merit in putting the Clinton/Bush/Kennedy families into the Great Council of Chiefs and keeping them out of the executive for a while.
And optimising the code would probably cost more (in my time) than buying the RAM...
Ouch, I think a London bus driver makes nearly that a week, including overtime, and that is considered low-paid. You probably got full board as well, but "key workers" often get subsidised housing here. Not that I am saying nurses and teachers need military training these days...
Bombs of course. The US makes bombs, which it sells to dictators for dollars. The dictators get these dollars by selling oil to China. The Chinese get them from the US by making actual useful stuff. And so the triangle is complete.