> There goes my idea of a covert 802.11 butt plug antenna.
I'm not sure I understand... are you saying that for some reason putting the antenna in your butt would put it too close to your head?
If you did go with the idea, you could probably market it as a fitness tool, since it would give the wearer a very hot ass. They don't have to know that "hot" refers to temperature...
Apparently, they even had a feature that caused the virtual battery to fail after 18 months, but Apple Legal forced them to remove that... Something about a patented business model.
I spent two weeks locked in a dark room with Zork III. Worse than crack, those old Infocom games. Too bad that, without a keyboard, you really couldn't replicate the gameplay of those on an iPod.
Anyone interested in developing same for the Handspring Treo 600?
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how would you describe George W. Bush's idiocy?
Make sure to type them verbatim, including all punctuation, hitting return after each one.
At UC Berkeley, you can make your own majors. Maybe if games are so important to you, you can go there and become a network gaming major.
I mean really, what are you at college for? Is this a survival issue? I don't know if the bnetd project is right or wrong, but it should be argued on its own merits rather than whether or not the guy from I Phelta Thi can play WCIII against his tri-Lamda counterpart.
I had a bunch of fun playing Think Tanks when it came out for the Mac. It's fast paced and cartoony, and a lot of fun. I gues it's really a 3PS, not FPS, but I figured I'd mention it anyway.
See if you can get a system to include even more information such as the direction the camera was pointing, lens size and zoom settings, etc. Then combine the whole thing together so that as more and more images come in, you can do matrix-esque bullet-time renderings of scenery, buildings and more.
And you could build in error-correcting routines so that once you have multiple image sources for a particular location, it'll learn to throw away non-static elements such as vehicles and people. Imagine being able to do a fully-rendered fly-through of New York City. Wouldn't that be awesome?
There was about 4k that was guaranteed untouched by the system at $C000 (49152). But since the darn thing wasn't a multi-tasker, you could put machine code anywhere that didn't have a purpose. There were some special locations down near the bottom: I think the text screen was 1K starting at 1024.
IIRC, the region just below $C000 was where the fonts were stored, and the region just above was "underneath" the ROM image of the BASIC OS. When the machine was booted, the OS was copied from ROM to RAM, and it was possible to modify the OS and restart, or modify the fonts, etc. It was also possible to do all this by accident, something I did often.
$20 $D2 $FF, just to follow up was "jsr $FFD2", a Jump to SubRoutine which was the part of the kernel that printed whatever byte that was currently in the accumulator into whatever slot the cursor was currently in on the screen.
I remember writing assembly for my C64 when I determined that BASIC was just too darned slow for me. What's scary is that I got good enough at understanding the underlying binary code that I was able to detect a bug when typing in a machine language program from Compute's Gazette; I recognized the numeric pattern of a command that just did not make sense in one line out of hundreds in a program which just would not run as published.
Any of you old C64 wonks remember what the following code would translate to? $20 $D2 $FF
What would that do on a C64?
So I say, forget assembler; it's too high level. Make those kids flip bits, for g'd's sake!
Hmmm... your comment really makes me think about that old saying about "swords to ploughshares." Maybe when a less war-like administration is put in place in the states, they'll decide to make the money back on these robots by "teaching" them to do the most back-breaking chores on farms, and giving them away to small farmers who will use them to compete against corporate farmers who will have to pay full price, and...
Apparently now Apple is making a product called iTag. It's part of the $49.00 iLife bundle and includes 1000 graphiti clip-art items that auto-taggers can include in their "artwork".
Tagging just isn't the same as it was when I was a kid.
It really is just a matter of perspective, isn't it?
I really couldn't justify buying an iPod just over a year ago, when I was thinking about it. But I was tired of having to make tapes for long drives, so I was seriously considering getting a 10-CD changer for my car. When I priced out the low end on that, it was over $400.00, including installation.
Instead, I got a 10GB iPod at MWSF 2003 for $369 and now I have a 100+CD changer whenever I drive! And work out. And go on/.!
Hell, I went out and bought the complete rules to football once I really started getting in to it.
That's great; geeking out to football to such a point that you buy a manual. Do you shout out RTFRB (RB=Rule Book) when the people you watch football with question a call?
Wouldn't that be wonderful if it worked? At least James Halperin thought so when he wrote The Truth Machine a few years back. It's a fanciful novel the central concept of which is that enforcing honesty changes the world and brings on a wonderful Utopian society.
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You're right; it really only got coverage because of speculation that it was going to be quashed by Apple.
7. Because I'm too cheap and too short-sighted to buy a PowerMac G5.
Really, what else would it be?
Mod parent up "+1 Pun Intended"!
I'm not sure I understand... are you saying that for some reason putting the antenna in your butt would put it too close to your head?
If you did go with the idea, you could probably market it as a fitness tool, since it would give the wearer a very hot ass. They don't have to know that "hot" refers to temperature...
Apparently, they even had a feature that caused the virtual battery to fail after 18 months, but Apple Legal forced them to remove that... Something about a patented business model.
I spent two weeks locked in a dark room with Zork III. Worse than crack, those old Infocom games. Too bad that, without a keyboard, you really couldn't replicate the gameplay of those on an iPod.
Anyone interested in developing same for the Handspring Treo 600?
man woman
got a light?
how would you describe George W. Bush's idiocy?
Make sure to type them verbatim, including all punctuation, hitting return after each one.
I mean really, what are you at college for? Is this a survival issue? I don't know if the bnetd project is right or wrong, but it should be argued on its own merits rather than whether or not the guy from I Phelta Thi can play WCIII against his tri-Lamda counterpart.
that makes my voice sound screechy and out of tune!
Windows, Mac and Linux versions here...
I had a bunch of fun playing Think Tanks when it came out for the Mac. It's fast paced and cartoony, and a lot of fun. I gues it's really a 3PS, not FPS, but I figured I'd mention it anyway.
And you could build in error-correcting routines so that once you have multiple image sources for a particular location, it'll learn to throw away non-static elements such as vehicles and people. Imagine being able to do a fully-rendered fly-through of New York City. Wouldn't that be awesome?
they forgot the '-ed', too. As in, "this page has been /.-ed"
IIRC, the region just below $C000 was where the fonts were stored, and the region just above was "underneath" the ROM image of the BASIC OS. When the machine was booted, the OS was copied from ROM to RAM, and it was possible to modify the OS and restart, or modify the fonts, etc. It was also possible to do all this by accident, something I did often.
$20 $D2 $FF, just to follow up was "jsr $FFD2", a Jump to SubRoutine which was the part of the kernel that printed whatever byte that was currently in the accumulator into whatever slot the cursor was currently in on the screen.
Any of you old C64 wonks remember what the following code would translate to? $20 $D2 $FF
What would that do on a C64?
So I say, forget assembler; it's too high level. Make those kids flip bits, for g'd's sake!
Whoops, there goes the socialist in me again...
Tagging just isn't the same as it was when I was a kid.
I really couldn't justify buying an iPod just over a year ago, when I was thinking about it. But I was tired of having to make tapes for long drives, so I was seriously considering getting a 10-CD changer for my car. When I priced out the low end on that, it was over $400.00, including installation.
Instead, I got a 10GB iPod at MWSF 2003 for $369 and now I have a 100+CD changer whenever I drive! And work out. And go on /.!
So will my patch for AmigaOS be coming out some time in the next five years or so?
That's great; geeking out to football to such a point that you buy a manual. Do you shout out RTFRB (RB=Rule Book) when the people you watch football with question a call?
Remember when Perl
was the language of choice for
lazy programmers?
Back in my day, we had eight bits, and we liked it!
Sigh... if only.