/sarcasm Their next album will be called "Metal Pipe" featuring (heavy/speed) Metal based on Pi -- probably because you need to be smoking something to enjoy it.;-)
The "editors", and I use the term loosely, have always been lazy fucks.
With the sheer number of dupes I've seen over ~20 years it is obvious they don't actually read the site let alone know how to do a basic search to see if a story has been already been posted before. But I guess that keeps the memes alive./. has editors? LOL, yeah, right.
Microsoft doesn't respect your time, space, or money. Fuck 'em.
The community needs to send a letter to MS:
Dear Microsoft,
Here is a fucking clue-stick:
1. It is NOT your fucking machine regardless of how much of your software we run on it.
2. Instead of nagging people to upgrade to your latest spyware how about you produce a better replacement with the option to disable all your Telemetry shit? Oh, wait, that would involve work./sarcasm
When I moved I kept my old phone number + area code. Makes it REALLY easy to tell who is spamming you when you get an "out of state" call. 99% of the time is is spam, with 1% a wrong number.
Of course these bastards have resorted to spoofing my phone number when they phone me but that makes it even easier to tell that it is spam. "Oh look, I'm phoning myself, yeah right!"**Click.**
No, it is NOT needed. You should be doing this in JavaScript -- not in a (static) layout language.
Where will this bloat end? Adding a scripting language??? Because there will always be some "wouldn't it be nice to be able to do...". We _already_ have requestAnimationFrame for smooth, jank free 120 Hz animation. To see if your browser supports 120 fps check use testufo.
Agreed, that is a dangerous slipperly slope. Today's justification for censorship is that it for health reasons but who knows if tomorrow it will be for political reasons? One only needs to look at China and how the number 64 is banned since it is a reference to the Tiananmen Square protests. Yes, a fucking number is banned in China. That's where this stupidity ends.
What's that quote by Martin Niemoller ?
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out -- because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out -- because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out -- because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me -- and there was no one left to speak for me.
Maybe it needs to be updated for the modern times?
First, they came for Alex Jones and I did not speak out -- because I didn't believe in stupid Conspiracy Theories Then they came for the Anti-vaxxers and I did not speak out -- because I didn't believe in anti medicine. Then they came for "Hate Speech" and I did not speak out -- because anyone with a brain knows speech has no feelings. Then they came for the ____ Then they came for me -- and there was no one left to speak for me because everyone else had been silenced and afraid to state their opinion for fear of being fired or ostracized.
How is the rest of the narrative going to be written over the next decade?
Technically, everyone is an atheist -- as there are two definitions for atheism: a person who does not believe in the existence of 1. a god, or 2. any gods.
Bold emphasis added.
By the first definition a Christian who doesn't believe in the existence of Zeus is an atheist.:-)
Atheism has nothing to do with Rationalism. A lack of belief, and therefore a lack of knowledge, doesn't imply, or diminish, rationality.
Sad when a company has to resort to artificial scarcity in order to drive sales.
I guess they have run out of ideas because I see they are remaking the same crap over and over again. e.g. Lion King (2019)
Bringing this back on topic -- so if the vault is going to be closed does that mean that everything can now be finally bought as a physical copy instead of being artificially restricted or will the only way to "own" these movies is to pay for a subscription to Disney+ ?
Yeah bc is wonky; it has a bug / feature where it only uses the precision of the input. Dividing by 1.0 forces full precision. These seem to be the general heuristics:
> make the programmer version allow floating point numbers?
Agreed. In the mean-time here are 3 different solutions (shamelessly stolen from this thread) to show a floating-point in hex:
1. Use Windows Calc 2. Use Javascript 3. Use Unix bc
1. Using Windows Calculator press the following hotkeys: (Note: This worked in Windows 7, I'm not sure if it still works in Windows 10. Who knows if MS fucked up the hotkeys...)
Explanation of what those cryptic hotkeys do:
Alt-2 (switch to Scientific mode)... enter number or do calculations...
Ctrl-L (equivalent to MC button)
Ctrl-P (equivalent to M+ button)
Ctrl-R (equivalent to MR button)
-
Ctrl-R
; (equivalent to Int button)
Ctrl-C
Alt-3 (switch to Programmer mode)
F6 (equivalent to DEC button)
Ctrl-V
F5 (equivalent to hex button
b) Fractional portion:
Alt-2 Ctrl-R - Ctrl-R ; = * 2 y 32 = ; Ctrl-C Alt-3 F6 Ctrl-V F5
Exampe: 123.456 will show two outputs: 7B, and 74BC 6A7E
2. Use Javascript. Open up any browser and start the developer console (Windows Chrome press Ctrl-Shift-I)
var n = 123.456;
console.log( n.toString(16) );
Will display: 7b.74bc6a7ef9dc
3. Use the Un*x arbitrary precision calculator: bc -l. bc -l obase=16; scale=40;
Notes
a) make sure you load the math library with -L.
b) You have to use the stupid divide by 1.0 trick to force the full output because bc only defaults to the precision of the input numbers.
Sad that MS can't even implement a basic programmer calculator after all these years. LOL.
It is rather ironic that pirates preserved the digital culture of old 8-bit games and apps on the Apple ][, C64, Atari, etc.
Many of these software titles are so obscure that they would have been lost to the annals of time otherwise.
It's fun to reverse engineer the copy protection, Virtual Machines, and p-code that some of them used. Yes, people were using VMs in the 80's such as Zork.
Sometimes old classics like Oregon Trail are better then the shitty pay to win remake.
2. The Walkman sold ~400 million (*) copies (~200 million were the cassette player). That is roughly on par with ALL the PlayStations combined (~434 million)
PS1 = 102 million sales PS2 = 155 million sales PS3 = 83 million PS3 = 94 million
(*) Not sure where the Verge is getting 400 million from. Wikipedia lists 385 million as of 2009.
Regardless, while Sony has been extremely successful in the Electronics sector their bread-and-butter is still Insurance.
Agree with your first half. However your time table is a just a little bit off:
Sony was selling their transistor radio, TR-55, back in 1955 -- long BEFORE Apple. One of Sony's last mass popular consumer electronics was the Walkman which starting selling in 1979 -- the same year Apple was selling the Apple ][+.
How is Sony copying Apple when they were selling electronics before Apple even existed???
Sony makes MOST of its money (63%) selling insurance.
Sony pivoted to finance from electronics a long time ago.
Not ALL comments are useless. Often times a comment will be time stamps because the original uploader was too lazy. People asking for the name of the song / video / game / etc. are also very handy. I've come across a LOT of new media due to user comments: "If you liked this you may also like..."
Also having questions about the content answered by _other knowledgeable viewers_ provides value.
Throwing the baby out with bath water just dumbs YouTube down even further.
This is why we can't have nice things -- because a few asshole wreck it for everyone else.:-/
What's next? Removing the ability to downvote incorrect information or click-bait videos?
Slashdot Mirror
/sarcasm Their next album will be called "Metal Pipe" featuring (heavy/speed) Metal based on Pi -- probably because you need to be smoking something to enjoy it. ;-)
Ouch! Cue the inevitable flame war between Tool and Muse fans. =P
Came for the stories, stayed for the user comments -- there have been some amazing gems over the years.
Why throw the baby out with the bathwater?
The "editors", and I use the term loosely, have always been lazy fucks.
With the sheer number of dupes I've seen over ~20 years it is obvious they don't actually read the site let alone know how to do a basic search to see if a story has been already been posted before. But I guess that keeps the memes alive. /. has editors? LOL, yeah, right.
Microsoft doesn't respect your time, space, or money. Fuck 'em.
The community needs to send a letter to MS:
When I moved I kept my old phone number + area code. Makes it REALLY easy to tell who is spamming you when you get an "out of state" call. 99% of the time is is spam, with 1% a wrong number.
Of course these bastards have resorted to spoofing my phone number when they phone me but that makes it even easier to tell that it is spam. "Oh look, I'm phoning myself, yeah right!" **Click.**
No, it is NOT needed. You should be doing this in JavaScript -- not in a (static) layout language.
Where will this bloat end? Adding a scripting language??? Because there will always be some "wouldn't it be nice to be able to do ...". We _already_ have requestAnimationFrame for smooth, jank free 120 Hz animation. To see if your browser supports 120 fps check use testufo.
Agreed, that is a dangerous slipperly slope. Today's justification for censorship is that it for health reasons but who knows if tomorrow it will be for political reasons? One only needs to look at China and how the number 64 is banned since it is a reference to the Tiananmen Square protests. Yes, a fucking number is banned in China. That's where this stupidity ends.
What's that quote by Martin Niemoller ?
Maybe it needs to be updated for the modern times?
How is the rest of the narrative going to be written over the next decade?
Ah, good old Microsoft, adding features 20+ years after the fact when people needed them. /sarcasm
Technically, everyone is an atheist -- as there are two definitions for atheism: a person who does not believe in the existence of
1. a god, or
2. any gods.
Bold emphasis added.
By the first definition a Christian who doesn't believe in the existence of Zeus is an atheist. :-)
Atheism has nothing to do with Rationalism. A lack of belief, and therefore a lack of knowledge, doesn't imply, or diminish, rationality.
Sad when a company has to resort to artificial scarcity in order to drive sales.
I guess they have run out of ideas because I see they are remaking the same crap over and over again. e.g. Lion King (2019)
Bringing this back on topic -- so if the vault is going to be closed does that mean that everything can now be finally bought as a physical copy instead of being artificially restricted or will the only way to "own" these movies is to pay for a subscription to Disney+ ?
Thanks for the suggestion. This is actually pretty decent as it works across Windows, Linux, and OSX! And its GPL as a bonus.
Mod parent +1 interesting.
> The only thing missing from SpeedCrunch is hex to decimal and decimal to hex conversions.
Maybe I'm missing something but could you clarify what you mean because I'm not seeing that?
hex(123.456)
0x7B.74BC6A7EF9DB22D0E56
dec(0x7B.74BC)
123.45599365234375
(press F2 for decimal then enter in)
123.456
(press F8 for hex and it will now show as)
0x7B.74BC6A7EF9DB22D0E56
No need to replace the batteries on my HP48SX or HP48GX when I use m48+ on my phone. Plus it's one less device to haul around.
Now get off my LAN ... :-)
Yeah bc is wonky; it has a bug / feature where it only uses the precision of the input. Dividing by 1.0 forces full precision. These seem to be the general heuristics:
Addition: precision = min( lhs, rhs )
Multiplication: precision = lhs + rhs - 1, but doesn't seem consistent
Division: precision specified by scale
Given this input ...
bc -l
obase=16;scale=40;
0.456 + 0.
0.456 + 0.0
0.456 + 0.00
0.456 + 0.000
0.456 + 0.0000
0.456 + 0.00000
0.456 + 0.000000
0.456 * 1.
0.456 * 1.0
0.456 * 1.00
0.456 * 1.000
0.456 * 1.0000
0.456 * 1.00000
0.456 * 1.000000
--
Slashdot: Too fucking lazy to fixing their shitty LAMENESS filter so people can't actually post SHORT code snippets.
> make the programmer version allow floating point numbers?
Agreed. In the mean-time here are 3 different solutions (shamelessly stolen from this thread) to show a floating-point in hex:
1. Use Windows Calc
2. Use Javascript
3. Use Unix bc
1. Using Windows Calculator press the following hotkeys: (Note: This worked in Windows 7, I'm not sure if it still works in Windows 10. Who knows if MS fucked up the hotkeys...)
a) Integer portion:
Alt-2 (enter number) Ctrl-L Ctrl-P Ctrl-R - Ctrl-R ; Ctrl-C Alt-3 F6 Ctrl-V F5
Explanation of what those cryptic hotkeys do:
... enter number or do calculations ...
Alt-2 (switch to Scientific mode)
Ctrl-L (equivalent to MC button)
Ctrl-P (equivalent to M+ button)
Ctrl-R (equivalent to MR button)
-
Ctrl-R
; (equivalent to Int button)
Ctrl-C
Alt-3 (switch to Programmer mode)
F6 (equivalent to DEC button)
Ctrl-V
F5 (equivalent to hex button
b) Fractional portion:
Alt-2 Ctrl-R - Ctrl-R ; = * 2 y 32 = ; Ctrl-C Alt-3 F6 Ctrl-V F5
Exampe: 123.456 will show two outputs: 7B, and 74BC 6A7E
2. Use Javascript. Open up any browser and start the developer console (Windows Chrome press Ctrl-Shift-I)
var n = 123.456;
console.log( n.toString(16) );
Will display: 7b.74bc6a7ef9dc
3. Use the Un*x arbitrary precision calculator: bc -l.
bc -l
obase=16; scale=40;
123.456 / 1.0
7B.74BC6A7EF9DB22D0E5604189374BC6A7EF
Notes
a) make sure you load the math library with -L.
b) You have to use the stupid divide by 1.0 trick to force the full output because bc only defaults to the precision of the input numbers.
Sad that MS can't even implement a basic programmer calculator after all these years. LOL.
It is rather ironic that pirates preserved the digital culture of old 8-bit games and apps on the Apple ][, C64, Atari, etc.
Many of these software titles are so obscure that they would have been lost to the annals of time otherwise.
It's fun to reverse engineer the copy protection, Virtual Machines, and p-code that some of them used. Yes, people were using VMs in the 80's such as Zork.
Sometimes old classics like Oregon Trail are better then the shitty pay to win remake.
1. Which is why I said "One of".
2. The Walkman sold ~400 million (*) copies (~200 million were the cassette player). That is roughly on par with ALL the PlayStations combined (~434 million)
PS1 = 102 million sales
PS2 = 155 million sales
PS3 = 83 million
PS3 = 94 million
(*) Not sure where the Verge is getting 400 million from. Wikipedia lists 385 million as of 2009.
Regardless, while Sony has been extremely successful in the Electronics sector their bread-and-butter is still Insurance.
Agree with your first half. However your time table is a just a little bit off:
Sony was selling their transistor radio, TR-55, back in 1955 -- long BEFORE Apple. One of Sony's last mass popular consumer electronics was the Walkman which starting selling in 1979 -- the same year Apple was selling the Apple ][+.
How is Sony copying Apple when they were selling electronics before Apple even existed???
Sony makes MOST of its money (63%) selling insurance.
Sony pivoted to finance from electronics a long time ago.
So the cliche has been updated? :-)
from: Nobody gets fired for buying IBM
to: Nobody gets fired for buying AWS
Not ALL comments are useless. Often times a comment will be time stamps because the original uploader was too lazy. People asking for the name of the song / video / game / etc. are also very handy. I've come across a LOT of new media due to user comments: "If you liked this you may also like ..."
Also having questions about the content answered by _other knowledgeable viewers_ provides value.
Throwing the baby out with bath water just dumbs YouTube down even further.
This is why we can't have nice things -- because a few asshole wreck it for everyone else. :-/
What's next? Removing the ability to downvote incorrect information or click-bait videos?
Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem. -- Gabe Newell
Didn't we already have this discussion 8 years ago ???
> We are running $2k PC's to run games are nearly the same quality as a $400 console.
Consoles at a shity 30 fps is NOT the same quality as PC's running a silky smooth 60 or 120 fps!
Also, it depends on the console. There is a vast difference between The Switch, PS4, and PS4 Pro performance and quality.
Lastly, games with crappy frame rates such as the original vs remastered Dark Souls also matter.
--
Only a blind fool thinks a crappy 24 fps is "cinematic" for stuttering camera pans.
Yup. In other words:
What you resist, persists
By drawing attention to these issues they are ironically making people MORE aware of their stupidity.
Yup I bust out laughing at:
"You fighting cancer not static electricity!"