Wash your mouth out with soap and water, sunny Jim!
Rock is proper music played on musical instruments.
Techno handbag disco music is just a noise that comes out of machines. And just look on your local high street on a Friday or Saturday night and see the barely-clad, drug-crazed, orange, under-age youngsters queuing up to get into over-priced night-clubs to techno handbag disco the night away and possibly later surrendering their bodies to the nearest sentient being wearing the right brand of training shoes.
Zombies.
Give me some good old-fashioned guitar-based rock any day. Slayer, Voivod or even Metallica if things get desperate.
Surely you would have been better to use inverted commas in that unlikely case, rather than quotation marks?My Higher English teacher told me I could use either " or ' as long as I was consistent. That much I learned from school...
Well you might if you were a moron, while the rest of us say voila.
The reason I put it in quotes is because I deliberately spelt it wrongly in a crude attempt at anti-slashbot irony. I'm not quite that stupid. I note that you post as AC.
Doesn't this mean that what you see is actually a mirror image of yourself, and that in order to guide the cursor to an icon, you have to manipulate your on-screen finger to the right place and then flick it? (As opposed to a touch screen, where your REAL, not virtual, finger actually does the clicking).
You do realise that the camera is digital and merely passes a stream of numbers into the computer? It is relatively trivial to reverse the order of the numbers in software. "Walla", as they say, you have a non-mirror image.
Maybe I missed the ironic content in your post however.
Without alpha transparency, you may as well use JPEG or GIF in most circumstances.
Everyone is obsessed with "alpha transparency" these days.
The most useful aspect of PNG is that it is a proper open standard with portable implementations. It was designed to handle 32-bit RGBA images from the outset (c.f. GIF that does 8-bit pallete-based colour). It has better (and unpatented) compression. That compression is lossless, so it works extremely well on artificial images (e.g. icons, screen shots and cartoons) compared with JPEG which uses a form of lossy compression better suited to realistic images such as photographs. You can decompress a PNG and be assured of getting exactly what you started with. When you decompress a JPEG you get an approximation to what you started with, of vfarying quality depending on how much data you chose to throw away during compression. Also because of the algorithm (discrete cosine transformation) used in analysing the image, artifacts are introduced. You can see these if you look closely. It's a kind of patchy effect like a kind of woven table placemat.
So you see, alpha transparency is only an added bonus. Anyone still using GIFs is either ignorant or is condemned to use Microsoft Internet Explorer.
This is still a feature of IBM mainframes and higher-end servers (and some other companies too). It's called Capacity on Demand. You buy e.g. a 64-way machine but pay for a 32-way one. Then one day when your business is really busy, and you need the extra capacity, you pay them, they send someone out to flip a switch and you get to use that capacity. When you're done with it, they send the engineer back to reset the switch and you're back with a 32-way machine. It's not a secret. It's a marketing feature and is touted as such. PHBs love it.
The 6502 was so primitive, and the instruction set so poor, that I'm surprised anyone managed to write anything at all that wasn't self-modifying on that architecture.
I don't envy those poor VAX folks having to migrate over to itanium, whose future is very much in question just now. Almost every week now, a report comes out about how disappointing itanium sales are, how software vendors are abandoning it, or not developing fot it in the first place, and how HP and intel keep revising their sales projections and PR fluff. itanium has gone from "going to be the defacto 64-bit standard CPU early in the 21st century offered by all major vendors" to the most widely deployed in 2-way servers and up, to 8-way servers and up, and now it will be regarded as a success if it achieves moderate acceptance in niches at the very high end. itanium was to rely on economies of scale to recoup its R&D expenditure and to become profitable. Now it will have to limp along as a costly, esoteric niche player. How long can intel and HP keep it propped up? When will the money dry up? When will HP cut its losses and move over completely to intel's Opteron clone?
Hopefully it has stopped at least one family having their lives blighted by idiots.
That's true, but when it comes to "criticism" of a religion, who defines what is criticism and what is hatred? Some may judge that criticism is blasphemy and therefore hatred. Harmless jokes may be outlawed. What about the "holy" and "righteous" who chose to harass those of no religion, or a different one? At what point does vigorous evangelism become intimidation? Where do you draw the line? Who gets to chose?
I'm posting this at +2 because I'm going out on a limb here: I agree with the grandparent poster. That's a politically-incorrect thing to say, and it might make people angry. I have not targetted Muslims specifically, but I suppose it could be classed as racist, and by implication religionist.
The Arab world is a hotbed of oppression, religious fundamentalism, hatred and cruelty, just like Christian Europe many hundreds of years ago. That's what I can figure out from the media (TV, radio, newspapers) and no wonder there are so many people from that region desperate to leave. I believe that we in civillised countries owe it to these people to accomodate as many of them as we can and allow them to prosper. I just wish the religious loony ones wouldn't come over here and spread their lies, ignorance and hatred.
OK, I've spoken. It may be naieve and simplistic, but that's my take on things.
In the days of 8-bit micros, as games became more advanced, allegedly self-modifying code was used to get enough stuff in the sparse RAM available and for performance reasons when a dynamically-modified unrolled loop was required IIRC.
In Search of Schroedinger's Cat by John Gribbin and A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking really did it for me. Also, the Douglas Adams books: the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (all of them) and the two Dirk Gently novels: Dirk Gently's Hollistic Detective Agency and the Long, Dark Tea-time of the Soul. The Dirk Gently books are quite different and very entertaining. To this day I still think of the Electric Monk who believes that everything is pink.
Remind your boss that the reason the sites look so terrible in non-IE browsers is because the sites do not conform to WWW standards.
PHBs don't think like that unfortunately. They think, "Microsoft is everywhere so it is the standard. Everything else is broken or not good enough." When one of their PHB friends talks about how cool moving over to Firefox was next time they are out playing golf instead of working, you'll get a memo telling you about this great new thing that he's found and insisting that you try it out and have it installed on his machine. Next thing you know, a committee will go away and do a cost/benefit analysis and within 12 to 18 months a document will be written recommending that it becomes corporate policy to only use Firefox. Three to four years later it will become policy, you'll get to install it, but it'll be a 2-year-old version full of bugs and security holes and lacking modern standards.
They have to be to hold the darned thing in place. I doubt something as feeble as a passenger plane crashing into it will do much damage other than making it vibrate for a bit. I don't envy the people on the plane, though.
They decided to build a tower that stretched all the way to heaven. God thought this was presumptious, and prevented the construction of the tower by cursing the people so that they spoke different languages and could no longer understand each other.
Since then, and particularly since Everest was conquered and modern aviation and space flight have developed, god keeps on moving Heaven higher and higher up since the old "many languages" curse has been quite successfully worked around. Every time astronomers build better telescopes, god just keeps on making heaven ever higher, and inventing new and exotic objects for us to observe.
Am I a terrorist because I was part of a peacefull protest where we broke into a nuclear power station dressed as homer simpson?
No, you are a prize fool, though. It's funny how the "environmentalists" oppose the cleanest, safest way of generating electricity on an industrial scale. It's also funny how they believe as fact what they see on a comedy television programme. You put yourself and others at risk, you broke the law, you completely misunderstand the costs and benefits of nuclear power, you made yourself look like an idiot and so on...
If you people weren't likely to cause someone to get hurt some day, I'd be asking you for an encore, because you're the funniest thing since the Flat Earth Society, Creationism, and that chap who calls himself King Arthur Pendragon, calls his sword Excalibur and plays at being a Druid.
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Don't you know that the Saxophone is the instrument of the Devil, young man?
Wash your mouth out with soap and water, sunny Jim!
Rock is proper music played on musical instruments.
Techno handbag disco music is just a noise that comes out of machines. And just look on your local high street on a Friday or Saturday night and see the barely-clad, drug-crazed, orange, under-age youngsters queuing up to get into over-priced night-clubs to techno handbag disco the night away and possibly later surrendering their bodies to the nearest sentient being wearing the right brand of training shoes.
Zombies.
Give me some good old-fashioned guitar-based rock any day. Slayer, Voivod or even Metallica if things get desperate.
Remember kids, God gave Rock'N'Roll to you.
Surely you would have been better to use inverted commas in that unlikely case, rather than quotation marks?My Higher English teacher told me I could use either " or ' as long as I was consistent. That much I learned from school...
So it's the Victorians who are to blame for techno handbag disco music! :-)
It's America. You don't have any rights unless you're a corporation or a right-wing fascist.
Scalp um pale-face!
The reason I put it in quotes is because I deliberately spelt it wrongly in a crude attempt at anti-slashbot irony. I'm not quite that stupid. I note that you post as AC.
It's first thing on a Monday morning, and unluckily, I chose you upon whom to vent my pent-up domestic strife from the weekend.
Doesn't this mean that what you see is actually a mirror image of yourself, and that in order to guide the cursor to an icon, you have to manipulate your on-screen finger to the right place and then flick it? (As opposed to a touch screen, where your REAL, not virtual, finger actually does the clicking).
You do realise that the camera is digital and merely passes a stream of numbers into the computer? It is relatively trivial to reverse the order of the numbers in software. "Walla", as they say, you have a non-mirror image.
Maybe I missed the ironic content in your post however.
Everyone is obsessed with "alpha transparency" these days.
The most useful aspect of PNG is that it is a proper open standard with portable implementations. It was designed to handle 32-bit RGBA images from the outset (c.f. GIF that does 8-bit pallete-based colour). It has better (and unpatented) compression. That compression is lossless, so it works extremely well on artificial images (e.g. icons, screen shots and cartoons) compared with JPEG which uses a form of lossy compression better suited to realistic images such as photographs. You can decompress a PNG and be assured of getting exactly what you started with. When you decompress a JPEG you get an approximation to what you started with, of vfarying quality depending on how much data you chose to throw away during compression. Also because of the algorithm (discrete cosine transformation) used in analysing the image, artifacts are introduced. You can see these if you look closely. It's a kind of patchy effect like a kind of woven table placemat.
So you see, alpha transparency is only an added bonus. Anyone still using GIFs is either ignorant or is condemned to use Microsoft Internet Explorer.
This is still a feature of IBM mainframes and higher-end servers (and some other companies too). It's called Capacity on Demand. You buy e.g. a 64-way machine but pay for a 32-way one. Then one day when your business is really busy, and you need the extra capacity, you pay them, they send someone out to flip a switch and you get to use that capacity. When you're done with it, they send the engineer back to reset the switch and you're back with a 32-way machine. It's not a secret. It's a marketing feature and is touted as such. PHBs love it.
The 6502 was so primitive, and the instruction set so poor, that I'm surprised anyone managed to write anything at all that wasn't self-modifying on that architecture.
I don't envy those poor VAX folks having to migrate over to itanium, whose future is very much in question just now. Almost every week now, a report comes out about how disappointing itanium sales are, how software vendors are abandoning it, or not developing fot it in the first place, and how HP and intel keep revising their sales projections and PR fluff. itanium has gone from "going to be the defacto 64-bit standard CPU early in the 21st century offered by all major vendors" to the most widely deployed in 2-way servers and up, to 8-way servers and up, and now it will be regarded as a success if it achieves moderate acceptance in niches at the very high end. itanium was to rely on economies of scale to recoup its R&D expenditure and to become profitable. Now it will have to limp along as a costly, esoteric niche player. How long can intel and HP keep it propped up? When will the money dry up? When will HP cut its losses and move over completely to intel's Opteron clone?
That's true, but when it comes to "criticism" of a religion, who defines what is criticism and what is hatred? Some may judge that criticism is blasphemy and therefore hatred. Harmless jokes may be outlawed. What about the "holy" and "righteous" who chose to harass those of no religion, or a different one? At what point does vigorous evangelism become intimidation? Where do you draw the line? Who gets to chose?
I'm posting this at +2 because I'm going out on a limb here: I agree with the grandparent poster. That's a politically-incorrect thing to say, and it might make people angry. I have not targetted Muslims specifically, but I suppose it could be classed as racist, and by implication religionist.
The Arab world is a hotbed of oppression, religious fundamentalism, hatred and cruelty, just like Christian Europe many hundreds of years ago. That's what I can figure out from the media (TV, radio, newspapers) and no wonder there are so many people from that region desperate to leave. I believe that we in civillised countries owe it to these people to accomodate as many of them as we can and allow them to prosper. I just wish the religious loony ones wouldn't come over here and spread their lies, ignorance and hatred.
OK, I've spoken. It may be naieve and simplistic, but that's my take on things.
Religion and polititcs suck.
You soon won't be allowed to say that sort of thing in the UK.
In the days of 8-bit micros, as games became more advanced, allegedly self-modifying code was used to get enough stuff in the sparse RAM available and for performance reasons when a dynamically-modified unrolled loop was required IIRC.
Apologise not, for the moderators are often slow-witted.
I keep thinking of "Mintolas" the very yummy dark chocolate sweets with a creamy mint centre. They're called "Mint Munchies" nowadays. :-)
"If you're enjoying your work, you're not working hard enough." - Scottish proverb.
In Search of Schroedinger's Cat by John Gribbin and A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking really did it for me. Also, the Douglas Adams books: the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (all of them) and the two Dirk Gently novels: Dirk Gently's Hollistic Detective Agency and the Long, Dark Tea-time of the Soul. The Dirk Gently books are quite different and very entertaining. To this day I still think of the Electric Monk who believes that everything is pink.
PHBs don't think like that unfortunately. They think, "Microsoft is everywhere so it is the standard. Everything else is broken or not good enough." When one of their PHB friends talks about how cool moving over to Firefox was next time they are out playing golf instead of working, you'll get a memo telling you about this great new thing that he's found and insisting that you try it out and have it installed on his machine. Next thing you know, a committee will go away and do a cost/benefit analysis and within 12 to 18 months a document will be written recommending that it becomes corporate policy to only use Firefox. Three to four years later it will become policy, you'll get to install it, but it'll be a 2-year-old version full of bugs and security holes and lacking modern standards.
True, but didn't a troll live under the 3 Billy Goats' Gruff bridge?
They have to be to hold the darned thing in place. I doubt something as feeble as a passenger plane crashing into it will do much damage other than making it vibrate for a bit. I don't envy the people on the plane, though.
Since then, and particularly since Everest was conquered and modern aviation and space flight have developed, god keeps on moving Heaven higher and higher up since the old "many languages" curse has been quite successfully worked around. Every time astronomers build better telescopes, god just keeps on making heaven ever higher, and inventing new and exotic objects for us to observe.
No, you are a prize fool, though. It's funny how the "environmentalists" oppose the cleanest, safest way of generating electricity on an industrial scale. It's also funny how they believe as fact what they see on a comedy television programme. You put yourself and others at risk, you broke the law, you completely misunderstand the costs and benefits of nuclear power, you made yourself look like an idiot and so on...
If you people weren't likely to cause someone to get hurt some day, I'd be asking you for an encore, because you're the funniest thing since the Flat Earth Society, Creationism, and that chap who calls himself King Arthur Pendragon, calls his sword Excalibur and plays at being a Druid.