The PS1's main processor may have been slower, but the PS1 also more specific processing chips to push work off to, such as a dedicated chip for sound. The N64, as I understand it, only had a main CPU and a GPU.
True. So why did PS1's 3D virtual worlds (like Spyro, Tomb Raider, Xenogears) look so crappy next to Mario 64, Banjo, or Zelda? I tend to look less at the hardware, and more at the actual results displayed on screen, and the PS1 always looked inferior to my eyes. It's main advantage was the huge library.
The PS1's main processor may have been slower, but the PS1 also more specific processing chips to push work off to, such as a dedicated chip for sound. The N64, as I understand it, only had a main CPU and a GPU.
I can't look up the details here at work (the corporate firewall blocks me from visiting game related sites), but GameFAQs has FAQs for systems as well as games, and there's usually at least one technical FAQ per system.
Actually, to be pedantic, that particular song isn't made in Mario Paint, but a clone of it named Mario Paint Composer that someone created for Windows. It doesn't have someone of those "pesky" limitations like not being able to use sharps/flats and having a limited song length.
Also, will the jQuery API eventually be integrated into the browser instead of being a huge JS blob for every page?
I imagine not, since it would make upgrading a major pain. As long as the site controls which version of jQuery you have, they can opt in to the latest and greatest version without having to wait for the browser manufacturers.
Funny thing is that your example is a typical case of horrible design that makes me wonder whether whoever came up with it ever spends any time communicating with human beings.
This dialog's purpose is immediately clear when you consider it in context. It appears when you try to exit the program.
Given the context, Save and Cancel are self explanatory. Discard (which I would have named Don't Save) is the only one not immediately obvious, and you can figure out what it does by process of elimination.
No, I just switched his COBOL quote out for the BASIC one on my whiteboard at work on Monday.
The BASIC one is
It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
When I was pricing out chips a few months back, an Intel Core 2 Duo 3.0Ghz and an Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4Ghz were about the same price.... 3.0Ghz is only 1.25 times the clock speed of 2.4Ghz.
Consistence is good, but why it "one way of doing things" good in any sense?
It makes the code easier to read and follow. For an example of why multiple ways of doing things in a can be bad (in a programming context), see PHP or Perl.
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I'm going to make a wild guess and say it's because you can choose where to put the brackets.
However, more importantly, you can also wrap things to multiple lines for easier reading; to prevent the need to scroll left and right to read long commands.
(Note: I haven't used Python enough to know if there's some way to do line continuations in it.)
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Well, of course, that's how they plan to bind them in the darkness?
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It defaults to sending the data to google because it's a beta release.
In case you haven't noticed, Google product never leave beta once they get there.
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Precisely. This is why I tagged this article "duh" and encourage everyone else to do the same.
Because the N64 had a better graphics processor.
The PS1's main processor may have been slower, but the PS1 also more specific processing chips to push work off to, such as a dedicated chip for sound. The N64, as I understand it, only had a main CPU and a GPU.
I can't look up the details here at work (the corporate firewall blocks me from visiting game related sites), but GameFAQs has FAQs for systems as well as games, and there's usually at least one technical FAQ per system.
Actually, to be pedantic, that particular song isn't made in Mario Paint, but a clone of it named Mario Paint Composer that someone created for Windows. It doesn't have someone of those "pesky" limitations like not being able to use sharps/flats and having a limited song length.
I imagine not, since it would make upgrading a major pain. As long as the site controls which version of jQuery you have, they can opt in to the latest and greatest version without having to wait for the browser manufacturers.
I haven't read the DMCA that closely, but I vaguely remember reading an exemption for breaking DRM if the DRM in question is no longer supported.
Did I imagine it, or is there really wording in there somewhere to that effect?
"it" being my brain.
I just assumed he meant IMAP. Gah, I can tell I've been on the Internet too long when it starts auto-correcting acronyms and I don't even notice.
This dialog's purpose is immediately clear when you consider it in context. It appears when you try to exit the program.
Given the context, Save and Cancel are self explanatory. Discard (which I would have named Don't Save) is the only one not immediately obvious, and you can figure out what it does by process of elimination.
This is why there's a push to move away from common dialogs to ones where you choices are spelled out on the buttons themselves.
For example, OpenOffice.org Writer has this dialog when you try to close the Word Processor without saving the current document:
with 3 buttons: Save, Discard, and Cancel.
Except that none of us use IE, so they could very well block the same domains in IE7's phishing filter and we'd never know it.
Well, these quotes were both from 1975...
No, I just switched his COBOL quote out for the BASIC one on my whiteboard at work on Monday.
The BASIC one is
See: Wikiquote
Either that or everyone is tired of hearing about them.
Maybe they meant Eich, the next version of Javascript*!
*Actually, Eich is the last name of the guy who wrote Javascript, but eh.
That link was great.
Oh, I thought you just ran out of memory. ;)
So, there's a way that the word "bought" relates to Spore after all!
When I was pricing out chips a few months back, an Intel Core 2 Duo 3.0Ghz and an Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4Ghz were about the same price.... 3.0Ghz is only 1.25 times the clock speed of 2.4Ghz.
No, MIR refers to parts that have been certified by the Russian space program for use in space station installations.
(Note: I am not the grandparent poster)
It makes the code easier to read and follow. For an example of why multiple ways of doing things in a can be bad (in a programming context), see PHP or Perl.
I'm going to make a wild guess and say it's because you can choose where to put the brackets.
However, more importantly, you can also wrap things to multiple lines for easier reading; to prevent the need to scroll left and right to read long commands.
(Note: I haven't used Python enough to know if there's some way to do line continuations in it.)
Well, of course, that's how they plan to bind them in the darkness?
In case you haven't noticed, Google product never leave beta once they get there.
I would say they stole it from me, but I use ++i ...