I love to laugh at audiophiles. The music they listen to was recorded in a project studio that uses $90 studio monitor headphones that put those $300 ones to shame in just about every way except penis size.
I've done that... with stuff I owned on tape. And those tapes weren't even down in the basement, they were right there on the floor next to my computer. It's just not worth ripping in real-time, fiddling with input levels, or converting AIFF/WAV to MP3 or whatever. All of that for a lossy-compressed, analog-to-digital converted recording of a song on poor-quality media? No thanks. I think I'll just drop the $9.99 on iTunes to replace it.
Only one SNES game ever used the SA-1, and that game was Super Mario RPG.
Other coprocessors used in SNES cartridges were: SuperFX 1 - StarFox, Stunt Race FX, Vortex SuperFX 2 - SMW2: Yoshi's Island, StarFox 2(Japan only) DSP2 - Mega Man X2, Mega Man X3
That's all the ones I know of, but there could be more.
You'll note that all of the games above took a while for emulators to support, and to this day have some "issues" on various emulators. That's because each one of those coprocessors had to have an emulator written for it, and usually in assembly for performance reasons.
This looks up (for example) 2006121042 (the B10 values are 1,2,3,4,BH,SQ), in a "database" in a different sheet (named "SomeOtherSheetName" in this case). It checks if the value of the lookup is not 0 (null number), as well as if A5 is "" (null string). If it passes this check, the value of this cell is the value of the lookup. If it fails this check, the value is "" (null string).
Nasty as it is, the Excel function is certainly more compact than any language is going to be. It also has this habit of updating automatically in realtime, which is "the right way". Correct data should never rely on user input.
And just to allay the fears of those who retched at this, this is a temporary implementation (to stop the bleeding), and a replacement using MAPP (Mac, Apache, Postgres, PHP) is on track to replace this nastiness within two months.
Umm... Crossover Mac states that Office versions 2000 and XP (2002) are "supported" but not recommended, while Office 2003 is fully supported.
It even shows a warning in the installer dialog when you choose to install the older versions of Office. It says something about how they're supported, but that there are usually glitches with those versions. I've not seen a glitch yet, though, and I use Office 2000. Rarely.
I left the autonomous robotic house minders and the holographic repair people in my other pants.
Really? I didn't know BuildingAutomationSystems would fit into anyone's pants. These systems are all quite capable of monitoring and controlling the temperature in the building, as well as notifying him of catastrophic failures (or warning signs of an impending one). They also all allow remote logins via web interfaces.
Personally, I recommend the Automated Logic one, as I've had experience with it and I know that it's a solid system. Not cheap, though. The hardware necessary (a custom PLC, essentially) will cost you at least $10k, and the software will be another $3-5k. Installation will cost $5-10k.
The Super Scope was released with Super Scope 6 in February 1992. (The hardware page doesn't list a release date, but it was only available with the game.) It's wireless, has buttons on both top and bottom, and is used in much the same way as the Wiimote. In fact, it even has a "sensor bar" of sorts (more of a sensor box) that both provides a positioning beacon (which is why you have to calibrate the 'Scope's targetting all the time) as well as a data transfer point.
The button on the bottom of the device is hard to see in the pic on the Wikipedia page, but it's on the back of the hand grip. There are multiple buttons on the top of the device.
Isn't "open source" supposed to be about developing platforms and extending them for personal gain, then releasing your changes back to the community so that others may use the improvements as they see fit? Wouldn't it be better if each car "developer" goes and designs a car, then they all come back and show each other the designs so that the committee can pick and choose? Design-by-committee never works, but choice-by-committee of finished designs and components does.
ANSI is the American version of ECMA, and I (as one who lives and works in America) won't consider this new format a standard until it's ANSI or ISO approved since the ECMA has no clout here.
IETF and W3C are web/internet standards groups and should not be concerning themselves with general technology standards that don't affect the web/internet.
Goldeneye was awesome. Perfect Dark was ok. Halo is ass. Metroid Prime is also ass. I think it has something to do with whether or not the control layout sucks donkey balls, though. On the N64, you could use the analog stick for "look" and the C-buttons for "walk". You can't do that on the Xbox or Gamecube, thus the FPSes suffer.
Oh, and Twisted Metal 2 on the original PSX was a riot, even if it was only 2 player. You should try it (if you care).
I won't need an Aware-Aware Car, just a James Bond car with missiles behind the headlights. Anytime I see a driver with a cap, a flick of a switch rids the world of one more fogey driver that should've had their license taken away from them long before.
It's a joke about stupid, distracted Californian bad drivers (hence the "California Rules" subject line). The rule-of-thumb referred to states that you should have 1 carlength between you and the next car for every 10 MPH you're travelling.
In my experience, morons are universal. An example: I live in Missouri, and we had a HUGE ice storm this week. There was an inch of ice on everything, an inch of snow on that, and another crust of ice on top of that. I was driving in it (I had to get my license plates renewed by the end of the month, or I would've stayed home like a sane person), and there was some moron that followed me down a fairly steep hill at 30 MPH and was so close that I couldn't see his headlights in my mirror. If I slid into a phone pole (bringing me to a full stop almost instantly), he couldn't have even skidded around me, much less get his car stopped before slamming into me.
The saying is 1 carlength for every 10 MPH. A carlength is more like 15 feet. At 50 MPH, that puts you at 75 feet, which is close to a 1s reaction window.
It's a TDMA thing. GSM is based on TDMA-style transmissions, so it affects Cingular and T-Mobile GSM services. It also affects traditional Nextel iDEN (another TDMA variant) transmissions.
TDMA is time-division multiplexing. That basically means that every phone on a tower gets a slice of time to do a burst transmission of buffered data. Those bursts are all over the frequency range, making some of them interfere with analog receiver circuitry (CRT's, speakers, etc.).
CDMA is carrier-division multiplexing, which limits each phone on a tower to a specific frequency, but with nonstop transmission/reception. Unless the frequency in use specifically interferes with a device, you won't see any interference since the frequency doesn't change.
Sure, why not? MAD worked for over half a century, I don't see why it wouldn't work now.
Plus, it'd finally give us something else to hear about on the news other than the latest round of "omg you have nukes" "omg no we don't that's a power station" "omg yes you do you're just faking it" "omg we are not" "omg are too" "omgnot" "omgtoo" between the US and Iran or NK.
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I love to laugh at audiophiles. The music they listen to was recorded in a project studio that uses $90 studio monitor headphones that put those $300 ones to shame in just about every way except penis size.
I've done that... with stuff I owned on tape. And those tapes weren't even down in the basement, they were right there on the floor next to my computer. It's just not worth ripping in real-time, fiddling with input levels, or converting AIFF/WAV to MP3 or whatever. All of that for a lossy-compressed, analog-to-digital converted recording of a song on poor-quality media? No thanks. I think I'll just drop the $9.99 on iTunes to replace it.
Only one SNES game ever used the SA-1, and that game was Super Mario RPG.
Other coprocessors used in SNES cartridges were:
SuperFX 1 - StarFox, Stunt Race FX, Vortex
SuperFX 2 - SMW2: Yoshi's Island, StarFox 2(Japan only)
DSP2 - Mega Man X2, Mega Man X3
That's all the ones I know of, but there could be more.
You'll note that all of the games above took a while for emulators to support, and to this day have some "issues" on various emulators. That's because each one of those coprocessors had to have an emulator written for it, and usually in assembly for performance reasons.
Why use a button? Excel has these amazing things called "formulas". I've made some amazingly disgusting ones in my time. Like this one:
) ,"00")&TEXT(DAY($A$5),"00")&$B10&"2",SomeOtherShee tName,2,0)0),VLOOKUP(YEAR($A$5)&TEXT(MONTH($A$5)," 00")&TEXT(DAY($A$5),"00")&$B10&"2",SomeOtherSheetN ame,2,0),"")
) + (((Date)a5.getCellData()).getDay()).format("00") + b10.getCellData() + "2";
=IF(AND($A$5"",VLOOKUP(YEAR($A$5)&TEXT(MONTH($A$5
In pseudo-Java style, that looks something like this:
Cell a5 = new Cell("A", "5");
Cell b10 = new Cell("B", "10");
CellData lookup;
String lookupTag;
if(a5.contents != null)
{
lookupTag = ((Date)a5.getCellData()).getYear() + (((Date)a5.getCellData()).getMonth()).format("00"
lookup = CellData.vlookup(lookupTag, "SomeOtherSheetName", 2, 0);
if(lookup != null)
{
return lookup;
}
}
return null;
This looks up (for example) 2006121042 (the B10 values are 1,2,3,4,BH,SQ), in a "database" in a different sheet (named "SomeOtherSheetName" in this case). It checks if the value of the lookup is not 0 (null number), as well as if A5 is "" (null string). If it passes this check, the value of this cell is the value of the lookup. If it fails this check, the value is "" (null string).
Nasty as it is, the Excel function is certainly more compact than any language is going to be. It also has this habit of updating automatically in realtime, which is "the right way". Correct data should never rely on user input.
And just to allay the fears of those who retched at this, this is a temporary implementation (to stop the bleeding), and a replacement using MAPP (Mac, Apache, Postgres, PHP) is on track to replace this nastiness within two months.
Umm... Crossover Mac states that Office versions 2000 and XP (2002) are "supported" but not recommended, while Office 2003 is fully supported.
It even shows a warning in the installer dialog when you choose to install the older versions of Office. It says something about how they're supported, but that there are usually glitches with those versions. I've not seen a glitch yet, though, and I use Office 2000. Rarely.
And this is what happens to English when it descends into the pit known only by the phrase "Darmok and Jelad at Tenagra."
I left the autonomous robotic house minders and the holographic repair people in my other pants.
Really? I didn't know Building Automation Systems would fit into anyone's pants. These systems are all quite capable of monitoring and controlling the temperature in the building, as well as notifying him of catastrophic failures (or warning signs of an impending one). They also all allow remote logins via web interfaces.
Personally, I recommend the Automated Logic one, as I've had experience with it and I know that it's a solid system. Not cheap, though. The hardware necessary (a custom PLC, essentially) will cost you at least $10k, and the software will be another $3-5k. Installation will cost $5-10k.
What I think of is a spout-on-stilts used to fill a truck or train car with granulated substances such as coal, grain, or sand.
I'd rather just line up an army of Fruit Fuckers. Once "Code Omega" is engaged, the RIAA won't have a leg to stand on or a stomach for juice.
The Super Scope was released with Super Scope 6 in February 1992. (The hardware page doesn't list a release date, but it was only available with the game.) It's wireless, has buttons on both top and bottom, and is used in much the same way as the Wiimote. In fact, it even has a "sensor bar" of sorts (more of a sensor box) that both provides a positioning beacon (which is why you have to calibrate the 'Scope's targetting all the time) as well as a data transfer point.
The button on the bottom of the device is hard to see in the pic on the Wikipedia page, but it's on the back of the hand grip. There are multiple buttons on the top of the device.
Why would they be bickering about anything?
Isn't "open source" supposed to be about developing platforms and extending them for personal gain, then releasing your changes back to the community so that others may use the improvements as they see fit? Wouldn't it be better if each car "developer" goes and designs a car, then they all come back and show each other the designs so that the committee can pick and choose? Design-by-committee never works, but choice-by-committee of finished designs and components does.
And ANSI.
ANSI is the American version of ECMA, and I (as one who lives and works in America) won't consider this new format a standard until it's ANSI or ISO approved since the ECMA has no clout here.
IETF and W3C are web/internet standards groups and should not be concerning themselves with general technology standards that don't affect the web/internet.
Don't set fire to Redmond. Nintendo's in Redmond. If you burn their HQ down, we'll never get more Wiis.
By your logic, the Genesis was a huge failure because Sega no longer makes consoles.
No, by his logic, the Dreamcast was a failure, whereas the Saturn was a success. That's the "absurd" point you were aiming for.
Goldeneye was awesome. Perfect Dark was ok. Halo is ass. Metroid Prime is also ass. I think it has something to do with whether or not the control layout sucks donkey balls, though. On the N64, you could use the analog stick for "look" and the C-buttons for "walk". You can't do that on the Xbox or Gamecube, thus the FPSes suffer.
Oh, and Twisted Metal 2 on the original PSX was a riot, even if it was only 2 player. You should try it (if you care).
I'm guessing it's about like the Wavebird. Two AA's last for 100+ hours of gameplay in those.
how about eliminating the need for piloted driving totally?
They already did that. Seriously, what would be the point to having auto-drive cars?
I won't need an Aware-Aware Car, just a James Bond car with missiles behind the headlights. Anytime I see a driver with a cap, a flick of a switch rids the world of one more fogey driver that should've had their license taken away from them long before.
It's a joke about stupid, distracted Californian bad drivers (hence the "California Rules" subject line). The rule-of-thumb referred to states that you should have 1 carlength between you and the next car for every 10 MPH you're travelling.
In my experience, morons are universal. An example: I live in Missouri, and we had a HUGE ice storm this week. There was an inch of ice on everything, an inch of snow on that, and another crust of ice on top of that. I was driving in it (I had to get my license plates renewed by the end of the month, or I would've stayed home like a sane person), and there was some moron that followed me down a fairly steep hill at 30 MPH and was so close that I couldn't see his headlights in my mirror. If I slid into a phone pole (bringing me to a full stop almost instantly), he couldn't have even skidded around me, much less get his car stopped before slamming into me.
Thus the joke.
The saying is 1 carlength for every 10 MPH. A carlength is more like 15 feet. At 50 MPH, that puts you at 75 feet, which is close to a 1s reaction window.
It's a TDMA thing. GSM is based on TDMA-style transmissions, so it affects Cingular and T-Mobile GSM services. It also affects traditional Nextel iDEN (another TDMA variant) transmissions.
TDMA is time-division multiplexing. That basically means that every phone on a tower gets a slice of time to do a burst transmission of buffered data. Those bursts are all over the frequency range, making some of them interfere with analog receiver circuitry (CRT's, speakers, etc.).
CDMA is carrier-division multiplexing, which limits each phone on a tower to a specific frequency, but with nonstop transmission/reception. Unless the frequency in use specifically interferes with a device, you won't see any interference since the frequency doesn't change.
No, I think he was thinking of the iBrator.
if 69 ninjas suddenly attack them
Hmm... how would I provoke such an attack by this particular type of ninja?
Sure, why not? MAD worked for over half a century, I don't see why it wouldn't work now.
Plus, it'd finally give us something else to hear about on the news other than the latest round of "omg you have nukes" "omg no we don't that's a power station" "omg yes you do you're just faking it" "omg we are not" "omg are too" "omgnot" "omgtoo" between the US and Iran or NK.
a young oriental women being raped
That's a picture of the factory the Zune is made in.