My first thought was: "Hmm. A discovery about Poland's Prime Numbers? What's the definition of a Poland's Prime anyway?". Ok. Time for the first coffee of the day, I guess.
Hey! I think there's also a joke somewhere about the bag being perforated, bringing a new sense to a "system overflow" but I can't quite work it out either...
Maybe we could create a group on Facebook and have fun with our not-quite-working-slashdot-jokes?
Because there are still a few countries which haven't yet adopted the U.S. customary units (just joking, hey... but go ahead and start bashing me now):
three-quarters of an inch is approximately 1.9 centimeters. Which is not *that* thin, IMO. At least for a 2015 laptop, I mean.
Here's another source of recent (and less recent) prods for the ZX Spectrum. This one is more specifically oriented towards demoscene and technical feats.
(The link mentionned in the article seems to be slashdotted, btw.)
It partly depends on whether you're using something like this or something like this.
Now, more seriously, the fact is that the dynamic range of vinyl records is about 60dB in the best case, as opposed to about 100dB for a CD. What makes a vinyl actually sound good (or at least 'different') is all the sound enhancement process which is performed to overcome the 'poor' dynamic range.
There's also some maths behind that if you're curious: RIAA curve. (And yeah, that was way before these guys were most known for their efforts against file sharing.)
Hey, seems like we're working in the same company! But strangely enough, I don't remember you. Now, since I've been in vacation for 3 years, that may be why... Everything's ok at the office??
From TFA: The effect is strange, though not as annoying as one would think.
Not so annoying, really? I'm somewhat skeptical...
Clone #1 : That sounds like a crazy idea.
Clone #2 : And that's $395!
Clone #3 : Isn't that old news?
Clone #4 : Geeeez...
Clone #2 : And that's $395!
Clone #4 : Geeeez...
Clone #3 : Isn't that old news?
Clone #1 : That sounds like a crazy idea.
Clone #3 : Isn't that old news?
Clone #4 : Geeeez...
And if we go a step further, there might be no TinyURL anymore, actually. While the hack is -- arguably -- interesting, this is clearly a misuse / abuse of the system, which is likely to make their DB grow at an unexpected rate, not talking about wasted bandwidth.
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It has already been mentioned by other posters, but let me say it once again: you can't print RFID.
I've been working on a B2B web solution designed for daily exchanges between automotive manufacturers and their smaller suppliers. Most of them have a very limited computer equipement. That makes sense in that their job is to produce pieces, not to process complex data flows. Most of the time, the guys barely have a PC with an Internet connection and an inkjet or laser printer.
When a supplier is doing a physical delivery, he will use the web solution to send an electronic message to the constructor *and* to download a PDF file with labels, which will be put on the different packages and palets. And guess what? These labels have bar codes. Some bar codes are just used to quickly identify the article references, and other ones are IDs which were sent through the electronic message in order to check integrity with the goods which were actually received. You may have, say, up to 70 or 80 labels per delivery, and one or two deliveries a day.
I can't see any easy way for them to put RFID instead of bar codes in the near future.
A few days ago, I saw something strange happening at the office. A secretary was sitting in front of my boss with her panties off, and the damn guy had put his finger into her... er... you know...
I was a bit perplexed.
But now I understand that he was just doing a backup.
I'm rather surprised not to see many (any?) posts about demo coding for the moment.
IMHO, demo coding *used to be* some kind of art. Back in the day, demo effects were mostly based on code because of terrible hardware limitations. You had to create some new ways to display such or such effect as fast as possible (preferably in one VBL) by pushing the limits of the processor and the video chip. That was done most of the time in 100% assembly language, and often by figuring out special tricks and undocumented features. You had to innovate. You had to be very imaginative. I think that's what art is all about. Maybe not a fine art, but still some art.
Today, it's quite easy to deal with the hardware and you'll probably just have to carefully read the OpenGL or DirectX API documentation to implement your effects. (I realize it's not *that* easy, but you don't have to be so imaginative anymore.) So, I'm not saying that demos are not art anymore, but this "art" is now much more a matter of graphics, 3D objects and original ideas of effects. Not anymore a matter of code, because the implementation is much straightforward.
1) It's probably going to be actually hard to find any tape recorder in the next coming years, just like it's not quite easy to find a Vic-20 today.
2) Many programs were (are) protected, using very specific properties of the original hardware used at the time. That's mostly true for floppies, for instance. (Just try to read a protected 3"1/2 Atari ST or Amiga floppy on today's PC floppy drives -- if your PC still has one -- and you'll see what I mean). But even some audio tapes are not that easy to decode correctly without the original tape recorder.
3) Audio cassette tapes is just a special case, anyway. How do you read, say, a 5"1/4 floppy? How do you read cartridges without the original hardware? You may try to build a homebrew cart dumper, but you'll need detailed specifications, which may simply not be available. And if you decide to do some reverse engineering, then... having the original hardware handy might help.
doesnt this happen a frame late though? you would only get the collision results after the frame has been drawn (or rather, after the stic has drawn the objects).
That's correct. But it's however perfectly synchronized with what the player is seeing on the screen at frame N. This is more the whole display process which is shifted by one frame -- just like on most systems as long as you sync. with active display. I mean, what you see at frame N actually is what was computed at frame N-1, before the last VBlank interrupt.
Incidentally, one peculiarity of the STIC is that its registers are accessible by the CPU only during VBlank 1 period which last for about 2900 cycles after the interrupt.
Back in 1979, that's how you would have 'asked' the STIC (Standard Television Interface Chip) of the Intellivision whether MOB (Moveable OBject) #0 collides with MOB #1. Typically, MOB #0 could be a cool 8x16 pixels character and MOB #1, say, a funky 2x2 pixels bullet.
Yup: that's a hardware collision detection, commonly used to drive some important 'physics' of the game and save quite a lot of precious CPU cycles (remember that I'm talking about a 895Khz machine of the early 80's).
And no: this thing is not the World's First Physics Processing Unit! It's just... er... slightly more sophisticated.:-)
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My first thought was: "Hmm. A discovery about Poland's Prime Numbers? What's the definition of a Poland's Prime anyway?". Ok. Time for the first coffee of the day, I guess.
Griffin? Is that you?
Hey! I think there's also a joke somewhere about the bag being perforated, bringing a new sense to a "system overflow" but I can't quite work it out either...
Maybe we could create a group on Facebook and have fun with our not-quite-working-slashdot-jokes?
1. Set up a website with a 5.45 MB background image
2. Submit it on Slashdot
3. You're done
Because there are still a few countries which haven't yet adopted the U.S. customary units (just joking, hey ... but go ahead and start bashing me now):
three-quarters of an inch is approximately 1.9 centimeters. Which is not *that* thin, IMO. At least for a 2015 laptop, I mean.
Here's another source of recent (and less recent) prods for the ZX Spectrum. This one is more specifically oriented towards demoscene and technical feats.
(The link mentionned in the article seems to be slashdotted, btw.)
It partly depends on whether you're using something like this or something like this.
Now, more seriously, the fact is that the dynamic range of vinyl records is about 60dB in the best case, as opposed to about 100dB for a CD. What makes a vinyl actually sound good (or at least 'different') is all the sound enhancement process which is performed to overcome the 'poor' dynamic range.
There's also some maths behind that if you're curious: RIAA curve. (And yeah, that was way before these guys were most known for their efforts against file sharing.)
Hey, seems like we're working in the same company! But strangely enough, I don't remember you. Now, since I've been in vacation for 3 years, that may be why ... Everything's ok at the office??
I more wonder how someone got three girls together that actually were willing to do that... I guess I don't get out enough...
:-)
Well, either that or these girls have been getting out too much.
While your approach is interesting, I'd like to point out another argument:
... er ... their Windows desktop. Bummer.
the logo
Now, the problem is that some of your friends may just want to "install" that as their new wallpaper on
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From TFA:
The effect is strange, though not as annoying as one would think.
Not so annoying, really? I'm somewhat skeptical...
Clone #1 : That sounds like a crazy idea.
Clone #2 : And that's $395!
Clone #3 : Isn't that old news?
Clone #4 : Geeeez...
Clone #2 : And that's $395!
Clone #4 : Geeeez...
Clone #3 : Isn't that old news?
Clone #1 : That sounds like a crazy idea.
Clone #3 : Isn't that old news?
Clone #4 : Geeeez...
Here is another document which provides definitive proof of the existence of giant apes.
Big deal ... just change the name to NotSoTinyAnymoreURL, and that's fixed!
TinyURL might become not so tiny anymore...
And if we go a step further, there might be no TinyURL anymore, actually. While the hack is -- arguably -- interesting, this is clearly a misuse / abuse of the system, which is likely to make their DB grow at an unexpected rate, not talking about wasted bandwidth.
Launch Windows just once. Chances are that you will not be able to launch it another time.
Results 1 - 10 of about 337,000,000 for hotel. (0.11 seconds)
Your search was limited to: Solar System / Earth.
Would you like to extend your search to other locations?
Please note that it may take up to a couple trillions years for our Googled-Nasa Probes (tm) (beta) to scan the most distant, not yet explored galaxies. Thank you for your patience.
It has already been mentioned by other posters, but let me say it once again: you can't print RFID.
I've been working on a B2B web solution designed for daily exchanges between automotive manufacturers and their smaller suppliers. Most of them have a very limited computer equipement. That makes sense in that their job is to produce pieces, not to process complex data flows. Most of the time, the guys barely have a PC with an Internet connection and an inkjet or laser printer.
When a supplier is doing a physical delivery, he will use the web solution to send an electronic message to the constructor *and* to download a PDF file with labels, which will be put on the different packages and palets. And guess what? These labels have bar codes. Some bar codes are just used to quickly identify the article references, and other ones are IDs which were sent through the electronic message in order to check integrity with the goods which were actually received. You may have, say, up to 70 or 80 labels per delivery, and one or two deliveries a day.
I can't see any easy way for them to put RFID instead of bar codes in the near future.
The change is mostly a legal/tax thing to avoid the problems of pursuing revenue-generating avenues while remaining a non-profit.
Hmm... This is unusual.
1. Fix this legal/tax thing
2. Avoid the problems of pursuing revenue-generating avenues
3. ???
4. non-profit!
A few days ago, I saw something strange happening at the office. A secretary was sitting in front of my boss with her panties off, and the damn guy had put his finger into her ... er ... you know ...
I was a bit perplexed.
But now I understand that he was just doing a backup.
I'm rather surprised not to see many (any?) posts about demo coding for the moment.
IMHO, demo coding *used to be* some kind of art. Back in the day, demo effects were mostly based on code because of terrible hardware limitations. You had to create some new ways to display such or such effect as fast as possible (preferably in one VBL) by pushing the limits of the processor and the video chip. That was done most of the time in 100% assembly language, and often by figuring out special tricks and undocumented features. You had to innovate. You had to be very imaginative. I think that's what art is all about. Maybe not a fine art, but still some art.
Today, it's quite easy to deal with the hardware and you'll probably just have to carefully read the OpenGL or DirectX API documentation to implement your effects. (I realize it's not *that* easy, but you don't have to be so imaginative anymore.) So, I'm not saying that demos are not art anymore, but this "art" is now much more a matter of graphics, 3D objects and original ideas of effects. Not anymore a matter of code, because the implementation is much straightforward.
I tend to disagree for several reasons.
... having the original hardware handy might help.
1) It's probably going to be actually hard to find any tape recorder in the next coming years, just like it's not quite easy to find a Vic-20 today.
2) Many programs were (are) protected, using very specific properties of the original hardware used at the time. That's mostly true for floppies, for instance. (Just try to read a protected 3"1/2 Atari ST or Amiga floppy on today's PC floppy drives -- if your PC still has one -- and you'll see what I mean). But even some audio tapes are not that easy to decode correctly without the original tape recorder.
3) Audio cassette tapes is just a special case, anyway. How do you read, say, a 5"1/4 floppy? How do you read cartridges without the original hardware? You may try to build a homebrew cart dumper, but you'll need detailed specifications, which may simply not be available. And if you decide to do some reverse engineering, then
In related news, it's still called "Yousa Documents" in the Gungan edition, though.
And, while the BSOD has turned red as well, it's still claiming "AHHHH!!! DIS IS IT!!! AHHHHHH!!! WEESA ALL DEAD!!! AHHHHHHHH!!!"
doesnt this happen a frame late though? you would only get the collision results after the frame has been drawn (or rather, after the stic has drawn the objects).
That's correct. But it's however perfectly synchronized with what the player is seeing on the screen at frame N. This is more the whole display process which is shifted by one frame -- just like on most systems as long as you sync. with active display. I mean, what you see at frame N actually is what was computed at frame N-1, before the last VBlank interrupt.
Incidentally, one peculiarity of the STIC is that its registers are accessible by the CPU only during VBlank 1 period which last for about 2900 cycles after the interrupt.
MVI $0018, R0
... er ... slightly more sophisticated. :-)
ANDI #$2, R0
BNEQ @@kaboom
Back in 1979, that's how you would have 'asked' the STIC (Standard Television Interface Chip) of the Intellivision whether MOB (Moveable OBject) #0 collides with MOB #1. Typically, MOB #0 could be a cool 8x16 pixels character and MOB #1, say, a funky 2x2 pixels bullet.
Yup: that's a hardware collision detection, commonly used to drive some important 'physics' of the game and save quite a lot of precious CPU cycles (remember that I'm talking about a 895Khz machine of the early 80's).
And no: this thing is not the World's First Physics Processing Unit! It's just
Just an example among others, of course.