My debut was on the Oric 1 back in 1983. Now, loading games from tape was pretty time consuming, but the Oric had an option that made it even slower.
For those of you who ever tried an Oric, you may remember the default load command; CLOAD "". But if you prepended ",S" it would go into something called a slow mode. ON A CASSETTE.
Loading "The Hobbit" in slow mode took about 25 minutes, and I'm not even kidding here. It was so slow that you could almost hear every bit and tell wether it was a cool game or not before typing "RUN".
Michael's departure, if true, would be the best thing to happen to Slashdot in a long time... and I've got two karma points to burn for saying so.
I've been reading slashdot for a few years, but have no preferences amongst the editors. I've never noticed anything negative about Michael.. However I have noticed the frequent "MICHAEL SUXX!" posts from a bunch of AC's.
Why do people dislike him so much? Can someone please enlighten me?
So how is Microsoft supposed to make money from selling apps to home users then?
Actually, the AC has a point.
I'd love a free version of Windows, since all I use Windows for is Counter-Strike. I don't use IE, I use FireFox and Opera. My Linux server provides me with mutt for email, and I never used Windows Movie Maker. OpenOffice takes care of all my office needs.
Give the OS away for free, and sell the apps. It's an excellent idea.
I'm thinking "go ahead". I'll do the same thing tonight.
If you don't want to delete your Windows or Linux partitions, you can probably run Solaris inside a VM, like VMWare.
The main reason I'm installing Solaris is to test the cross-platform compability on the programs I develop. But who knows, maybe I'll fall in love with it..:-)
Most DSL solutions I've seen here in Norway use DHCP. I've been using the ISP's Telenor Avidi and NextGenTel, both use DHCP. I consider DHCP a Good Thing(tm). If it's such a security risk, then secure it instead of disabling it.
Ms. Sandlin is so devoted to [Firefox] that she has taped a note to her monitor warning guests not to click on the desktop shortcut to Internet Explorer. "Do not touch the blue E!" the note says.
The US Government has sent out a warning out to internet users through its Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT), pleading users to stop using Microsofts Internet Explorer.
[A]ll-conquering Internet Explorer has been stuck in the mud for the past year, as Microsoft stopped delivering new versions. The company now rolls out only an occasional fix as part of its Windows updates. Gates and company won the browser war, so why keep fighting it?
The problem is that hackers continue to find and exploit security holes in Explorer
A little while ago, Honda introduced a car in scandinavia called Honda Fitta. Honda didn't do enough research as it turned out that "fitta" is a scandinavian slang for.. "cunt".
If you haven't seen it yet, try Hobgoblins from MST3K.
It's the worst possible combination of awful acting, terrible plot and the ridicilous 1980's fashion and music. (BT )
For those of you who haven't seen MST3K, here's how it works: One guy and two robots are forced to watch crappy movies, and during the whole film you see their silhouettes and hear them throw hilarious remarks about the awful movie.
Invite a couple of friends, have a few beers, and you'll have a killer evening with MST3K!
I only have NES, SNES (type 1) and N64 from Nintendo, but I also have a PSX and PS2, and a Sega Megadrive.
It's not just for the games. I code a lot of stuff on the consoles (mainly the PS2 these days). It reminds me of coding on the good old C64 - you know exactly what's inside the box, no surprises ahead.
Running a little offtopic here, just thought of something while I read 'perl' and 'indian' in the same article:
A few months ago I was hired through RentACoder to fix some buggy perl scripts on a server that were developed by several indian developers (outsourcing).
Seriously, it was the worst piece of crap I've ever seen. I can write cleaner and more efficient code while fighting rabid dogs on crack.
I'm sure that doesn't represent the code that your average Joe Ghandi will write, but it was a good lesson to mr.Fat Wallet that the cheapest outsourced solution isn't always the best choice.
..if you're a "newbie" in the business. Ofcourse, it all depends on where you decide to work.
Now, I'm from Norway, and I can only tell you what it's like over here. And keep in mind that I don't have any education except high school.
I've been hired at various places so to speak constantly since '96, but all employers seems to offer about the same amount in salary.
In my first job, back in 1998, I earned 200,000 NOK (about $29,000) which is very low. I'm currently making 320,000 (about $46,000) which is reasonably better, but about $15,000 lower than my colleagues with an education.
As I understand it: Over here, a "freshman" may expect 300,000 (~$43,000) NOK at first, then gradually crawling up towards 400,000 (~$58,000) NOK. If you're long enough in the right business, you may even expect 500,000 NOK ++.
I have no idea why this account gets so little spam?
I've had my email account for about 6 years now, and about 70-80% of all my email is spam. These are the mistakes I've done:
- My email address was written in plain text (and mailto:) on my homepage
- I've had my email address written in plain text in several sources that I've released (crawled by search engines, harvested by spammers later)
- I've posted my email address by mistake on the usenet
I'm seriously considering whitelisting now. It's a bit more work, but I honestly think it's worth the effort.
Obligatory Monkey Island quote
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· Score: 2, Funny
So how many chicks would a wood chipper chip if a wood chipper could chip chicks?
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From the terms you use, you don't seem to be a mechanic or tuner.
Sorry 'bout the terms, I'm not english.
How going from AWD to RWD would give you better acceleration and handling in a rally is beyond me.
Me too, but I was speaking of an arcade game.
Friend of mine has a BMW
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A while ago I used to play the multiplayer arcade game "Sega mega rally championship". I guess a few of you readers have played that game as well.
In this game you have a cheat, the rear wheel drive hack. Once you start a single player game, you can hit the camera button, shift to gear 1,2,3,4 then hit the gas pedal and press the start button. At this moment you'll hear a clear "swhoosh" sound confirming that the cheat works. At this point you can play the game with better accelleration and better performance in every turn.
Now, this cheat kind of works on the BMW 750 as well. A friend of mine did a similar cheat, and it was something like hitting the pedal, shifting into reverse (automatic trasmission) while doing something else (sorry I can't rembmer). A this point he turned the injection into full throttle forcing the car to full performance at all time, giving him maxium performance at drag racing.
You have a good point. I code assembly on many different CPU's, and I can only see a minor difference between them
For example, on the 6502 family (like the 6510 from the C64), you have only three registers; X, Y and A. These registers can only hold a byte each. Most of the variables you have are stored in zero pointers, a 255-byte range from address $00-$FF.
Then the 68k CPU (as in the Amiga, Atari, etc) you have several more registers which can be used more freely. You have D0-D7 data registers and A0-A7 address registers. These can be operated as bytes, words or longwords as you wish, from wherever you want.
The x86 assembly is written the "wrong way", and is pretty confusing at times. Where I would say "move.l 4,a6" on the 68k, I have to say "mov dx,4" on the x86. Takes a few minutes to adjust each time.
Once you master assembly language on one CPU, it's pretty easy to switch to another.
Apparently, a russian comedian named Yakov Smirnoff made a lot of jokes where he took, for example, a sentence and switched the subject and object around, removed a few words, and prepended "In Soviet Russia".
Like the example from the everything2.com article above:
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
becomes
In Soviet Russia, lazy dog jumps over quick brown fox!
Slashdot Mirror
My debut was on the Oric 1 back in 1983. Now, loading games from tape was pretty time consuming, but the Oric had an option that made it even slower.
For those of you who ever tried an Oric, you may remember the default load command; CLOAD "". But if you prepended ",S" it would go into something called a slow mode. ON A CASSETTE.
Loading "The Hobbit" in slow mode took about 25 minutes, and I'm not even kidding here. It was so slow that you could almost hear every bit and tell wether it was a cool game or not before typing "RUN".
Heck, I might as well burn some points as well:
Michael's departure, if true, would be the best thing to happen to Slashdot in a long time... and I've got two karma points to burn for saying so.
I've been reading slashdot for a few years, but have no preferences amongst the editors. I've never noticed anything negative about Michael.. However I have noticed the frequent "MICHAEL SUXX!" posts from a bunch of AC's.
Why do people dislike him so much?
Can someone please enlighten me?
So how is Microsoft supposed to make money from selling apps to home users then?
Actually, the AC has a point.
I'd love a free version of Windows, since all I use Windows for is Counter-Strike. I don't use IE, I use FireFox and Opera. My Linux server provides me with mutt for email, and I never used Windows Movie Maker. OpenOffice takes care of all my office needs.
Give the OS away for free, and sell the apps. It's an excellent idea.
I'm thinking "go ahead". I'll do the same thing tonight.
:-)
If you don't want to delete your Windows or Linux partitions, you can probably run Solaris inside a VM, like VMWare.
The main reason I'm installing Solaris is to test the cross-platform compability on the programs I develop. But who knows, maybe I'll fall in love with it..
I have speed holes on my car too, although my friends call them as "rust".
vi! *)
Most DSL solutions I've seen here in Norway use DHCP. I've been using the ISP's Telenor Avidi and NextGenTel, both use DHCP. I consider DHCP a Good Thing(tm). If it's such a security risk, then secure it instead of disabling it.
*) instead of "word!", stupid!
Why is Internet Explorer unsafe?
See what people are saying about Internet Explorer, in the wake of its most recent security issues:
New York Times, In Search of a Browser That Banishes Clutter:
USA Today, Security risks swell for Microsofts Explorer:
The Inquirer, US Government warns against Internet Explorer:
Slate, Are the Browser Wars Back?:
The problem is that hackers continue to find and exploit security holes in Explorer
A little while ago, Honda introduced a car in scandinavia called Honda Fitta. Honda didn't do enough research as it turned out that "fitta" is a scandinavian slang for.. "cunt".
If you haven't seen it yet, try Hobgoblins from MST3K.
It's the worst possible combination of awful acting, terrible plot and the ridicilous 1980's fashion and music. (BT )
For those of you who haven't seen MST3K, here's how it works: One guy and two robots are forced to watch crappy movies, and during the whole film you see their silhouettes and hear them throw hilarious remarks about the awful movie.
Invite a couple of friends, have a few beers, and you'll have a killer evening with MST3K!
In the not too distant future... lalala
*bangs head to keyboard*
Must use preview button
Must use preview button
Must use preview button
What I tried to say, was "Don't forget one of the most agressive advertisers in time, X10", but the spontanity is somewhat gone now.
Oh well.
Don't one of the most aggresive advertisers in time, X10.
Why type when you can just point and click?
/var/log/apache/access_log|sort|uniq|wc -l
Because some tasks are easier from shell than GUI.
Take this, for example, counting the unique visits from your apache access log. How would you do this in GUI?
awk '{print$1}'
Maybe that's a stupid example, but you get my point.
Its very nice that your PS2 plays PS1 games. But unfortunately it doesn't play NES, SNES, N64 or GameCube games.
Sure it does. At least NES, SNES (and hey, even C64)
I only have NES, SNES (type 1) and N64 from Nintendo, but I also have a PSX and PS2, and a Sega Megadrive.
It's not just for the games. I code a lot of stuff on the consoles (mainly the PS2 these days). It reminds me of coding on the good old C64 - you know exactly what's inside the box, no surprises ahead.
I'm sorry.. what? You switched before training the admins? Didn't you sort of see it coming?
Running a little offtopic here, just thought of something while I read 'perl' and 'indian' in the same article:
A few months ago I was hired through RentACoder to fix some buggy perl scripts on a server that were developed by several indian developers (outsourcing).
Seriously, it was the worst piece of crap I've ever seen. I can write cleaner and more efficient code while fighting rabid dogs on crack.
I'm sure that doesn't represent the code that your average Joe Ghandi will write, but it was a good lesson to mr.Fat Wallet that the cheapest outsourced solution isn't always the best choice.
..if you're a "newbie" in the business. Ofcourse, it all depends on where you decide to work.
Now, I'm from Norway, and I can only tell you what it's like over here. And keep in mind that I don't have any education except high school.
I've been hired at various places so to speak constantly since '96, but all employers seems to offer about the same amount in salary.
In my first job, back in 1998, I earned 200,000 NOK (about $29,000) which is very low. I'm currently making 320,000 (about $46,000) which is reasonably better, but about $15,000 lower than my colleagues with an education.
As I understand it: Over here, a "freshman" may expect 300,000 (~$43,000) NOK at first, then gradually crawling up towards 400,000 (~$58,000) NOK. If you're long enough in the right business, you may even expect 500,000 NOK ++.
Hey, boss, you reading this?
Yeah, that's ofcourse the downside with whitelisting... :/
Another option is to have the user go through a puzzle in order to get my email address (on my webpage that is)
I have no idea why this account gets so little spam?
I've had my email account for about 6 years now, and about 70-80% of all my email is spam. These are the mistakes I've done:
- My email address was written in plain text (and mailto:) on my homepage
- I've had my email address written in plain text in several sources that I've released (crawled by
search engines, harvested by spammers later)
- I've posted my email address by mistake on the usenet
I'm seriously considering whitelisting now. It's a bit more work, but I honestly think it's worth the effort.
So how many chicks would a wood chipper chip if a wood chipper could chip chicks?
From the terms you use, you don't seem to be a mechanic or tuner.
Sorry 'bout the terms, I'm not english.
How going from AWD to RWD would give you better acceleration and handling in a rally is beyond me.
Me too, but I was speaking of an arcade game.
A while ago I used to play the multiplayer arcade game "Sega mega rally championship". I guess a few of you readers have played that game as well.
In this game you have a cheat, the rear wheel drive hack. Once you start a single player game, you can hit the camera button, shift to gear 1,2,3,4 then hit the gas pedal and press the start button. At this moment you'll hear a clear "swhoosh" sound confirming that the cheat works. At this point you can play the game with better accelleration and better performance in every turn.
Now, this cheat kind of works on the BMW 750 as well. A friend of mine did a similar cheat, and it was something like hitting the pedal, shifting into reverse (automatic trasmission) while doing something else (sorry I can't rembmer). A this point he turned the injection into full throttle forcing the car to full performance at all time, giving him maxium performance at drag racing.
Fun ride though.
You have a good point. I code assembly on many different CPU's, and I can only see a minor difference between them
For example, on the 6502 family (like the 6510 from the C64), you have only three registers; X, Y and A. These registers can only hold a byte each. Most of the variables you have are stored in zero pointers, a 255-byte range from address $00-$FF.
Then the 68k CPU (as in the Amiga, Atari, etc) you have several more registers which can be used more freely. You have D0-D7 data registers and A0-A7 address registers. These can be operated as bytes, words or longwords as you wish, from wherever you want.
The x86 assembly is written the "wrong way", and is pretty confusing at times. Where I would say "move.l 4,a6" on the 68k, I have to say "mov dx,4" on the x86. Takes a few minutes to adjust each time.
Once you master assembly language on one CPU, it's pretty easy to switch to another.
I still think the 680x0 series are the best.
Running a little off-topic here, but I feel I need to quote this from the article:
SETI@home is now our planet's largest supercomputer, averaging 60 teraflops, thanks to 4.7 million SETI@home volunteers in 226 countries.
Three years ago I created one extra seti account by mistake, for which I processed 3 packets.
According to the seti@home individual user stats page, this account has processed more packets than 46.361% of their users.
I wonder if they count the idle and non-active user accounts when they claim 4.7 million users?
If not, it's probably safe to exclude about 50% of that user mass.
Apparently, a russian comedian named Yakov Smirnoff made a lot of jokes where he took, for example, a sentence and switched the subject and object around, removed a few words, and prepended "In Soviet Russia".
Like the example from the everything2.com article above:
- The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
becomesJust FYI.