From about 2009 through mid-2012, 10" Linux laptops were available. But in late 2012, manufacturers discontinued 10" laptops. The commonly suggested workaround was to buy a tablet and a clip-on keyboard. At the time, the Surface Pro was three times the price of the 10" laptops it replaced.
(Nowadays the workaround is to buy a Chromebook, put it in developer mode, and make sure nobody else touches it so that it doesn't get accidentally factory restored.)
Say an OS publisher wants to add a feature to make installation of a boot-time rootkit, which runs the host OS in a virtual machine, obvious to a PC's user. How should this be achieved without appearing anticompetitive?
I'm out of the games biz now but if I wanted to go from 1080p to 4K with VR on the horizon I'd prefer 10x performance minimum. Too bad Sony likes to fuck over the programmers with generally shitty hardware.
Is Nintendo's or Microsoft's or Apple's any less shitty? Or are GPUs for the mass market just not ready for 4K yet?
But in the end, fuck consoles. They are holding back PC game development.
How so? A developer can choose to target PC first and then streamline the game later for a port to consoles. It worked for SimCity and The Sims and Skyrim and Diablo 3.
Pixel shaders probably do take four times longer to render at twice the pixel density, with texture caching perhaps mitigating a bit of that. But not all games are pixel shader bound. With geometry, you can usually get away with less than x4. This is especially true of games whose art style isn't "brown" enough to need photoreal shading, especially games as stylized as Nintendo's first-party games.
Until consoles get controls where the user controls the full speed of movement, and not only the direction and low speeds
An analog stick controls speed of movement by how far the stick is tilted from center. WASD is like a D-pad: either a key is pressed or it isn't. That's why some games for PlayStation 3 and 4 let the player plug in a USB mouse, use the mouse to control aiming, and use the DualShock's left stick to control movement.
Some people seem to think, and continue to put forth the myth, that the NES looks at the scan lines on the CRT. A CRT draws scan lines from the top of the screen to the bottom in a certain time interval. By looking at the time between the start of a scan and the time the Zapper sees the scan, the NES can know where the Zapper is pointed. And because a digital monitor will show all scan lines simultaneously, there is no way for it to calculate where the Zapper is pointed. This might be true of some other types of photodiode based guns, but it is not how the NES works. Not even close.
Mr. Sweatman appears not to have tried Operation Wolf or the Zap Ruder tech demo. Both of these NES games actually do count scanlines from the start of the frame to the start of light, though the Zapper isn't precise enough to derive horizontal position. Perhaps what he's trying to say is that Duck Hunt is simpler and thus slightly more forgiving.
The state legislatures are the ones that need to be removed/fired.
Bingo.
Democrats and Republicans are both equally culpable in the broadband shitshow.
Democrats and Republicans are not the only U.S. political parties. Case in point: Recent polls show Libertarian POTUS nominee Gary Johnson tied for second among millennials and independents.
And even if they were, there's still a way to tie a soap box to the ballot box. Form an IEOPAC around this issue with a policy of always supporting the opponent of each district's incumbent legislator, regardless of party affiliation, if the incumbent acts in the ISP cartel's favor.
I seem to remember reading that a lot of cell towers run their upstream on point-to-point microwave links, especially in remote areas where burying fiber would be cost prohibitive.
You don't need a scaler with a HDMI product like this
You'd be surprised. If the thing is putting out a 720p signal, it still needs to be resized to the 1366x768 pixel panel of a "720p"-class TV or the 1920x1080 pixel panel of a 1080p TV. If it's putting out a 1080p signal, it needs to be resized down to 1366x768 or up to 1920x1080 because TVs by default assume that the signal includes overscan data to ignore.
For one thing, not all backlights flicker at a rate that triggers the Zapper's resonator. For another, those who buy a console with a built-in 30-in-1 multicart (such as this product) are somewhat less likely to be using an ultra-low-delay scaler. And even then, it'll break Operation Wolf, which depends on the Zapper's ability to discern up and down by measuring the exact time from the top of the frame to when it starts to detect light.
The photodiode's output runs through a resonator circuit, similar to that used by remote controls to demodulate pulses, to distinguish 15.7 kHz CRT scanning from other light sources.
and the games then had to make the interesting object bright and everything else on the screen dark during a frame to be able to detect the hit.
Or if the game makes the whole screen bright, it can time from the start of the frame to determine how far up or down it is pointed. A game can use this information in one of two ways: to narrow down how many "interesting objects" it needs to test, or to directly move an object up or down. The Zap Ruder tech demo shows this, and its Pong-like air hockey simulator called "ZapPing" feels just as responsive as "Laser Hockey" in Wii Play.
Because of that it was possible to cheat by pointing the Zapper at a lamp to get a guaranteed hit.
Hardly. If the photodiode sees light just before the start of the frame, the game sees it as a disconnected Zapper. (From the CPU's point of view, the resonator produces a 1 for dark and a 0 for light, and a disconnected input is pulled to 0.)
The NES picture is 256x240 pixels in size. (The video signal also includes 12 pixels of border on each side, for a total of 280x240 pixels that are stretched to a 4:3 frame. This makes each pixel slightly wider than it is tall, for an 8:7 pixel aspect ratio.)
I ran PocketNES in VBA for a couple reasons. One was to verify that games work in PocketNES without having to burn them onto my GBA flash cart every time. (They never did get Big Bird working.) Another was that around 2005, VisualBoyAdvance supported lossless video codecs, and NES emulators didn't. Many would crash soon after I started recording if I chose Huffyuv from the VFW codec selection dialog. (Huffyuv was what we had before Lagarith.)
Obtaining the ROMs legally is a bit more difficult. You can't just buy the loose Game Pak and then download the GoodNES set off some torrent site (UMG v. MP3.com). Instead, to qualify under the "essential step" exception of 17 USC 117 and foreign counterparts, you have to buy a Kazzo board, hook it up to a computer, and find the appropriate dumping script for the mapper that each game uses.
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Microsoft no longer owns the Most Socialist Network on Basic Cable. It sold MSNBC TV to NBC in 2005 and MSNBC.com to NBC in 2012.
From about 2009 through mid-2012, 10" Linux laptops were available. But in late 2012, manufacturers discontinued 10" laptops. The commonly suggested workaround was to buy a tablet and a clip-on keyboard. At the time, the Surface Pro was three times the price of the 10" laptops it replaced.
(Nowadays the workaround is to buy a Chromebook, put it in developer mode, and make sure nobody else touches it so that it doesn't get accidentally factory restored.)
Say an OS publisher wants to add a feature to make installation of a boot-time rootkit, which runs the host OS in a virtual machine, obvious to a PC's user. How should this be achieved without appearing anticompetitive?
I'm out of the games biz now but if I wanted to go from 1080p to 4K with VR on the horizon I'd prefer 10x performance minimum. Too bad Sony likes to fuck over the programmers with generally shitty hardware.
Is Nintendo's or Microsoft's or Apple's any less shitty? Or are GPUs for the mass market just not ready for 4K yet?
Who's to say the capability of the hardware doing 1080P didn't have headroom to do more
Though PlayStation 4 has 1080p on a lot of games where Xbox One needs to upscale, several PlayStation 4 games still end up running at 900p on PS4, such as Battlefield 4 . But what you say about headroom is likely for any game that's 1080p on both consoles.
But in the end, fuck consoles. They are holding back PC game development.
How so? A developer can choose to target PC first and then streamline the game later for a port to consoles. It worked for SimCity and The Sims and Skyrim and Diablo 3.
Pixel shaders probably do take four times longer to render at twice the pixel density, with texture caching perhaps mitigating a bit of that. But not all games are pixel shader bound. With geometry, you can usually get away with less than x4. This is especially true of games whose art style isn't "brown" enough to need photoreal shading, especially games as stylized as Nintendo's first-party games.
Intel is not remotely interested in gaming consoles
Not even a Skylake NUC running Steam in Big Picture mode?
Until consoles get controls where the user controls the full speed of movement, and not only the direction and low speeds
An analog stick controls speed of movement by how far the stick is tilted from center. WASD is like a D-pad: either a key is pressed or it isn't. That's why some games for PlayStation 3 and 4 let the player plug in a USB mouse, use the mouse to control aiming, and use the DualShock's left stick to control movement.
What is not prohibited is allowed.
The reverse is true in any industry that is deemed "regulated". Medicine, law, and broadcasting are three examples of regulated industries.
Local regulation of cable is one of the prohibited things, as are exclusive franchises (government granted monopolies.)
What in federal regulation of cable TV and Internet guarantees access to local rights of way for competing last mile providers?
Rubbing alcohol also contains 30% DHMO in addition to 70% isopropanol, but whatever the drying pass doesn't remove, evaporation certainly will.
You appear to imply that there exist federal statutes or regulations that explicitly permit these ISP cartels to keep cartelling. Which are they?
From "Resurrecting Duckhunt" by Will Sweatman:
Mr. Sweatman appears not to have tried Operation Wolf or the Zap Ruder tech demo. Both of these NES games actually do count scanlines from the start of the frame to the start of light, though the Zapper isn't precise enough to derive horizontal position. Perhaps what he's trying to say is that Duck Hunt is simpler and thus slightly more forgiving.
The state legislatures are the ones that need to be removed/fired.
Bingo.
Democrats and Republicans are both equally culpable in the broadband shitshow.
Democrats and Republicans are not the only U.S. political parties. Case in point: Recent polls show Libertarian POTUS nominee Gary Johnson tied for second among millennials and independents.
And even if they were, there's still a way to tie a soap box to the ballot box. Form an IEOPAC around this issue with a policy of always supporting the opponent of each district's incumbent legislator, regardless of party affiliation, if the incumbent acts in the ISP cartel's favor.
Unless they run their backhaul on wireless
I seem to remember reading that a lot of cell towers run their upstream on point-to-point microwave links, especially in remote areas where burying fiber would be cost prohibitive.
In my state our PUC told me directly that they would be fired if they even brought up the issue of telecom or broadband.
Who are the PUC's bosses? Fire them at the ballot box.
A higher-capacity network theoretically lets the carrier fit more customers onto the same spectrum.
You don't need a scaler with a HDMI product like this
You'd be surprised. If the thing is putting out a 720p signal, it still needs to be resized to the 1366x768 pixel panel of a "720p"-class TV or the 1920x1080 pixel panel of a 1080p TV. If it's putting out a 1080p signal, it needs to be resized down to 1366x768 or up to 1920x1080 because TVs by default assume that the signal includes overscan data to ignore.
For one thing, not all backlights flicker at a rate that triggers the Zapper's resonator. For another, those who buy a console with a built-in 30-in-1 multicart (such as this product) are somewhat less likely to be using an ultra-low-delay scaler. And even then, it'll break Operation Wolf, which depends on the Zapper's ability to discern up and down by measuring the exact time from the top of the frame to when it starts to detect light.
I think the Zapper only had a light filter
The photodiode's output runs through a resonator circuit, similar to that used by remote controls to demodulate pulses, to distinguish 15.7 kHz CRT scanning from other light sources.
and the games then had to make the interesting object bright and everything else on the screen dark during a frame to be able to detect the hit.
Or if the game makes the whole screen bright, it can time from the start of the frame to determine how far up or down it is pointed. A game can use this information in one of two ways: to narrow down how many "interesting objects" it needs to test, or to directly move an object up or down. The Zap Ruder tech demo shows this, and its Pong-like air hockey simulator called "ZapPing" feels just as responsive as "Laser Hockey" in Wii Play.
Because of that it was possible to cheat by pointing the Zapper at a lamp to get a guaranteed hit.
Hardly. If the photodiode sees light just before the start of the frame, the game sees it as a disconnected Zapper. (From the CPU's point of view, the resonator produces a 1 for dark and a 0 for light, and a disconnected input is pulled to 0.)
As usual, NESdev Wiki explains it in detail.
Confusion with Commodore 64 is why.
The NES picture is 256x240 pixels in size. (The video signal also includes 12 pixels of border on each side, for a total of 280x240 pixels that are stretched to a 4:3 frame. This makes each pixel slightly wider than it is tall, for an 8:7 pixel aspect ratio.)
I ran PocketNES in VBA for a couple reasons. One was to verify that games work in PocketNES without having to burn them onto my GBA flash cart every time. (They never did get Big Bird working.) Another was that around 2005, VisualBoyAdvance supported lossless video codecs, and NES emulators didn't. Many would crash soon after I started recording if I chose Huffyuv from the VFW codec selection dialog. (Huffyuv was what we had before Lagarith.)
I went to the usual sources, and it turns out his ancestry is Irish Catholic, not Native American. (Source: "What You Didn't Know About Rep. Mike Pence of Indiana" by Danielle Burton in U.S. News )
That sounds about right: $20 for the BOM, $20 for royalties payable to third-party publishers, and $20 for retailer markup.
Obtaining the ROMs legally is a bit more difficult. You can't just buy the loose Game Pak and then download the GoodNES set off some torrent site (UMG v. MP3.com). Instead, to qualify under the "essential step" exception of 17 USC 117 and foreign counterparts, you have to buy a Kazzo board, hook it up to a computer, and find the appropriate dumping script for the mapper that each game uses.