Ok, you are right about it being Ask Slashdot and not a proper article. I just don't see why you would use Ask Slashdot to replicate the same answers that could be found in a discussion board for SNES hardware, a discussion board that could easily be found by searching for it on a search engine.
I can understand it if there weren't any resources for the question readily available, but there are a lot of people out there that are interested in SNES hardware and SNES hardware emulation. These discussion boards and forums and resources readily exist and have for some time. As others have mentioned there is even an emulator out there that aims at 100% hardware emulation down to recreating strange glitches and artifacts.
I agree with you that its good to have a current, real-time discussion with a range of knowledgeable people. Where we differ is he could easily have searched for "SNES hardware forum" or "SNES hardware disccusion" or even "SNES hardware specifications" and found a better place to ask this question, or even found that it was asked already and answered.
I searched for "SNES hardware specifications" and the number 1 search result took me to a SNES hardware discussion forum that appears to be pretty active. The article at the top of the page says this:
Here's is a new decoument with SNES hardware specs, http://nocash.emubase.de/fullsnes.htm http://nocash.emubase.de/fullsnes.txt it should be the most complete SNES specs ever released (unless I've missed something important), covering both the console (based on Anomie's docs), and all existing add-ons, controllers, coprocessors (based on my own research & info found on various webpages; including the nesdev forum)... I hope the doc will be of some use.
And there are lots of entries after that I glanced over that look like more posting of more information. Anyway, going straight to an interest group in the topic you claim to be interested in seems to me like a better way to get an answer. Just posting to Slashdot and basically saying "hey I have this hobby I want to start, can you do my research for me" reeks of helplessness or laziness to me.
Actually yeah, I did easily come across the information he was looking for, by searching for "SNES hardware specifications" and clicking on the top search result, and reading. It took me to this forum where people are actively discussing SNES hardware specifications and posting links to the information he requested. Here is an excerpt from the first post on the page google linked me to:
Here's is a new decoument with SNES hardware specs, http://nocash.emubase.de/fullsnes.htm http://nocash.emubase.de/fullsnes.txt it should be the most complete SNES specs ever released (unless I've missed something important), covering both the console (based on Anomie's docs), and all existing add-ons, controllers, coprocessors (based on my own research & info found on various webpages; including the nesdev forum)... I hope the doc will be of some use.
I forgot to mention that Iranians are not even Arabs, they are Persian. I don't know the whole deal as I don't study the matter closely, but it seems like Iran is trying to get support from the Arab community by being so anti-Israel, and trying to support and promote their version of Islam, Shia.
The ratio of Jews to non-Jews at the the turn of the start of the 20th century in the lands that Israel occupies were greatly in the favor of non-Jews. The majority of the non-Jews were of Arabic descent, though there were other sizable non-Jewish, non-Arab people there. This was the ethnic makeup of the land of Israel for many centuries. At one time, way way way way way back there, there was a sizable tribe of people calling themselves the Israelites that did the tribal things with the many other tribes that inhabited the area, fighting, killing, expanding, contracting, etc. The Israelites obviously did not establish a strong and lasting presence in the area. A presence yes, but the area ended up belonging (in the sense of being conquered and ruled by) to other tribal/ethnic groups. Also, the Israelites were not the first ones there.
Jews from around the world did not establish a sizable population again in the lands that Israel occupies until a movement started in the late 1800s among some Jews to establish a homeland. The movement was called Zionism and it chose what we now call Israel. Mass immigration started, and there was much conflict in various areas because sometimes there were more people moving into an area than there was land to support, and usually the Jewish immigrants won out on the disputes over who should stay and who should go. People that were living there for some hundreds of years sometimes were displaced to make way. This is the root of the dislike of Jews in the Arab world.
Much later, in 1947, the United Nations made a resolution to divide the area into separate Jewish and Palestinian states. The following year Israel declared itself an independent nation and was attacked almost immediately. Israel was prepared for this, as they had built up sizable military forces in preparation for such an event, took more lands, and the rest is history. Most of the Arab community does not look to Israel with much love for what they perceive as stealing Arab lands and feel helpless to do anything about it using force as Israel has more military power and an amazing intelligence service than do its Arab neighbors. Also, as the USA is one of Israel's major supporters both in the international political scene and in direct monetary and military aid, they tend to see us as "supporting the bad guy".
Basically it comes down to Israel took its land by force, keeps its land by force, and their adversaries in the area are pissed that they are too weak and inept to do something about it.
Show me a study. No I am serious. My understanding is that around 24 fps is necessary to trick the human eye into seeing continuous motion, hence movies are shown at 24 frames per second, but also using blurring on individual frames. In other words if you look at a single frame of a scene in a movie where the action is happening quickly, the single frame will not be a static image, it will have blurring artifacts. If the single frame was a sharp static picture and was in between other sharp static pictures, the movie would look really weird playing at 24 fps whenever there was a lot of motion happening on the screen.
I can see the difference in a game running at 30 fps and 60 fps. Both look like they are moving pictures and not a series of still images being constantly redrawn, but there is a distinction i can make between the two. You probably can too. Setup a blind seeing test if you want to find out.
I also prefer games at a constant 60fps over games at a constant 30fps. I notice the difference. I like the 60fps ones more.
Foxit, the maker of the Foxit PDF reader claims ISO-32000 compliance for their Enterprise Edition on their website. I couldn't find the binary as this version requires registration and looks like it costs money. Their regular free version is currently 14MB for the installer. I don't know how compliant it is, but it can't be too far (it reads all PDF's I've thrown at it).
So how much of Adobe Reader code is not for conforming to ISO 32000 and instead for supporting additional features that are not in the standard and for features for interoperability with other Adobe products that have nothing to do with the simple task of opening and rendering a PDF file? My hunch is quite a bit. More code == more possibilities of vulnerabilities.
I realize Foxit Reader is probably no more secure than Adobe Reader (except for having the smaller attack surface) but I like that it is very unpopular and thus does not get targeted as much by malicious hackers.
Ahh, you are correct. I did not think about that, and something like that is happening at the moment. When I got into bitcoins a few months ago, the cost was about $.80 per bitcoin, and had been stable for some time. I took a vacation and came back and all of a sudden the prices went up to $4 and then $5, hit $8 and are now in the $7 range. I feel dumb for having spent bitcoins previously.
So it is possible that bitcoins will lose their main function, to act as a currency for exchange, and will become purely a speculative commodity?
What would cause deflation in BitCoin if it took off? If anything, if BitCoin were to take off in a major way there would be massive inflation (inflation in the sense of value of BitCoin to other currencies, i.e., instead of costing $7 for a bitcoin, it would now cost $70)
I apologize, I assumed that you were both disagreeing with the thesis of the parent post (China conducts industrial espionage on a regular basis, and does very little to stop it) as well as the arguments/analysis/reasoning the parent poster was using. In light of your presented information, I find myself not agreeing with the parent poster's arguments/analysis/reasoning, and applaud you for bringing forward information.
And I now notice you did not say one thing about the thesis, just the parent post's arguments, so my reply was a little hasty. So then the question remains, why does China (as a government, and as an assumed general consensus of the Chinese population) seem to condone conducting industrial espionage on the rest of the world? My own argument is pretty simple: they want to win.
Aside from the errors in the OPs post that you rightfully pointed out, and the flaw in his reasoning, you are saying that he/she is incorrect in his thesis, and that China (government and people's mentality) does not implicitly condone spying on other countries to conduct industrial espionage? Because it looks to me like they do.
The 3ds is a handheld console that does 3-dimensional displays (3-d like Avatar 3-D, or Tron 3-D) without the need for glasses. The mention of bringing mario to 3-d refers to bringing it to a console with a 3-dimensional display, not to having a game that takes place in a 3-d world/environment, like mario 64 and all the others.
Last time I checked (a few years ago), Al-Jazeera was a shining example of independent journalism that reports all sides of a story, and is criticized in the West for being too pro-Islam, and very harshly criticized in the Islamic world for being too anti-Islam. Have things changed? Can you please cite me an example of Al-Jazeera having an agenda (other than "the truth", which is what Al-Jazeera means)?
Al-Jazeera receives funding from the government of Qatar (and is based in Qatar). The government of Qatar is a pretty big ally of the government of the United States. The government of the United State is a pretty big supporter of the Government of Israel. You make of that what you will when you see them report on news that is not taken well in Israel, the United State, or Qatar.
My first thought (if this claim is true) was how soon until the engineers, scientists and owners of this company start disappearing, dying in car accidents or having cancer............
I agree with you and hate to be a nitpicker, but the Declaration of Independence is not part of US law. It is a statement of principles and reasons for the thirteen colonies rebelling against the British Empire. Legal rights start at and derive from the US Constitution. The Declaration of Independence was and is tremendously influential towards US political philosophy, so maybe what you meant to say is that "clearly the rights enshrined in US government philosophy are intended to apply to all humans." And yes, we have never fully lived up to our principles, and have done many things completely counter to them throughout history and up until now, and that it is the job, the duty of the citizens of the country, to keep the government continually in check, even when it means inconveniencing our lives.
Knowingly exposing sensitive government information is a crime. Anyone with a security clearance knows that (or should know that) because it is beaten into you when you get a government clearance.
Subpoenaing Private Manning in this case is not unusual. He is involved in a criminal investigation.
I am not familiar with all of the other names on that short list. The ones I am familiar with are not US citizens. Non US citizens outside of the territory of the US do not have any of the same rights that US citizens have. (Non US citizens inside the territory of the United States have very many rights). Subpoenaing the records of non-US citizens that are currently not located inside of a US territory is not against any law I know of. IANAL, please someone that has more knowledge clarify that issue.
Also, the US government does do things I do not agree with. Bringing up a list of bad things the government does/has done and tying it into this, when there is little relation, does not help your cause.
There is a catch-22 situation of exposing government bad stuff. Most (but not all) government bad stuff is classified, not necessarily to hide the government doing bad stuff, but for other security reasons. If you really want more of this to come to light, support more political candidates that support greater government transparency. Texas Senator Ron Paul comes to mind, but before you blindly support him because his views on say US foreign policy and the economy align with yours, investigate the whole man and all his beliefs (he is extremely conservative. More so than any other Republican conservative).
Also you say "your country" so I assume you mean that you are not a US citizen. The problems of the US are best solved by US citizens, but unfortunately most of us can't be bothered to stop and think about our government.
They should just tell the students who don't pay attention not to even bother showing up, and save the students a walk or a drive and save the teacher a half classroom full of teaching-energy suckers.
In the last thousand years, until recently, there were no Jews in the Muslim world because all the Jews in those areas were slaughtered and persecuted even longer ago and Jews didn't move back in. Even the Muslim world has calmed its ways a bit in this last millennium.
This is a very common misconception. It is not true. Until about the beginning of the 20th century (1900 ad) Jews lived in the Middle East and in other Muslim countries in the area in relative peace.
Animosity between Arab and Muslim countries (Iran is a Muslim country but IS NOT an Arab country) increased greatly in the last century for a variety of reasons. The creation of the state of Israel and the handling of some of the non-Jews living in that reason prior is one of the issues. Israel has done what it thinks is best* to ensure the continued existence of the state of Israel, and as they still exist 60 years later, they have been successful so far. Israel puts its own interests above the interests of the region. Why should they do anything else? Why should any nation state do anything else?
*This includes maintaining a very strong military, which they have used to defend themselves from foreign aggression as well as to be aggressors in preemptive wars and doing preemptive military strikes that they felt were in the interests of Israel. Includes using assassination as one of their options. Includes developing strong alliances with countries that can help them (most notably the USA). Includes expanding their borders into areas that are strategically significant.
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AC:
Ok, you are right about it being Ask Slashdot and not a proper article. I just don't see why you would use Ask Slashdot to replicate the same answers that could be found in a discussion board for SNES hardware, a discussion board that could easily be found by searching for it on a search engine.
I can understand it if there weren't any resources for the question readily available, but there are a lot of people out there that are interested in SNES hardware and SNES hardware emulation. These discussion boards and forums and resources readily exist and have for some time. As others have mentioned there is even an emulator out there that aims at 100% hardware emulation down to recreating strange glitches and artifacts.
Sootman:
I agree with you that its good to have a current, real-time discussion with a range of knowledgeable people. Where we differ is he could easily have searched for "SNES hardware forum" or "SNES hardware disccusion" or even "SNES hardware specifications" and found a better place to ask this question, or even found that it was asked already and answered.
I searched for "SNES hardware specifications" and the number 1 search result took me to a SNES hardware discussion forum that appears to be pretty active. The article at the top of the page says this:
Here's is a new decoument with SNES hardware specs,
http://nocash.emubase.de/fullsnes.htm
http://nocash.emubase.de/fullsnes.txt
it should be the most complete SNES specs ever released (unless I've missed something important), covering both the console (based on Anomie's docs), and all existing add-ons, controllers, coprocessors (based on my own research & info found on various webpages; including the nesdev forum)... I hope the doc will be of some use.
And there are lots of entries after that I glanced over that look like more posting of more information. Anyway, going straight to an interest group in the topic you claim to be interested in seems to me like a better way to get an answer. Just posting to Slashdot and basically saying "hey I have this hobby I want to start, can you do my research for me" reeks of helplessness or laziness to me.
AC:
Actually yeah, I did easily come across the information he was looking for, by searching for "SNES hardware specifications" and clicking on the top search result, and reading. It took me to this forum where people are actively discussing SNES hardware specifications and posting links to the information he requested. Here is an excerpt from the first post on the page google linked me to:
Here's is a new decoument with SNES hardware specs,
http://nocash.emubase.de/fullsnes.htm
http://nocash.emubase.de/fullsnes.txt
it should be the most complete SNES specs ever released (unless I've missed something important), covering both the console (based on Anomie's docs), and all existing add-ons, controllers, coprocessors (based on my own research & info found on various webpages; including the nesdev forum)... I hope the doc will be of some use.
Seriously, is this worthy of an article on Slashdot?
I forgot to mention that Iranians are not even Arabs, they are Persian. I don't know the whole deal as I don't study the matter closely, but it seems like Iran is trying to get support from the Arab community by being so anti-Israel, and trying to support and promote their version of Islam, Shia.
The ratio of Jews to non-Jews at the the turn of the start of the 20th century in the lands that Israel occupies were greatly in the favor of non-Jews. The majority of the non-Jews were of Arabic descent, though there were other sizable non-Jewish, non-Arab people there. This was the ethnic makeup of the land of Israel for many centuries. At one time, way way way way way back there, there was a sizable tribe of people calling themselves the Israelites that did the tribal things with the many other tribes that inhabited the area, fighting, killing, expanding, contracting, etc. The Israelites obviously did not establish a strong and lasting presence in the area. A presence yes, but the area ended up belonging (in the sense of being conquered and ruled by) to other tribal/ethnic groups. Also, the Israelites were not the first ones there.
Jews from around the world did not establish a sizable population again in the lands that Israel occupies until a movement started in the late 1800s among some Jews to establish a homeland. The movement was called Zionism and it chose what we now call Israel. Mass immigration started, and there was much conflict in various areas because sometimes there were more people moving into an area than there was land to support, and usually the Jewish immigrants won out on the disputes over who should stay and who should go. People that were living there for some hundreds of years sometimes were displaced to make way. This is the root of the dislike of Jews in the Arab world.
Much later, in 1947, the United Nations made a resolution to divide the area into separate Jewish and Palestinian states. The following year Israel declared itself an independent nation and was attacked almost immediately. Israel was prepared for this, as they had built up sizable military forces in preparation for such an event, took more lands, and the rest is history. Most of the Arab community does not look to Israel with much love for what they perceive as stealing Arab lands and feel helpless to do anything about it using force as Israel has more military power and an amazing intelligence service than do its Arab neighbors. Also, as the USA is one of Israel's major supporters both in the international political scene and in direct monetary and military aid, they tend to see us as "supporting the bad guy".
Basically it comes down to Israel took its land by force, keeps its land by force, and their adversaries in the area are pissed that they are too weak and inept to do something about it.
Show me a study. No I am serious. My understanding is that around 24 fps is necessary to trick the human eye into seeing continuous motion, hence movies are shown at 24 frames per second, but also using blurring on individual frames. In other words if you look at a single frame of a scene in a movie where the action is happening quickly, the single frame will not be a static image, it will have blurring artifacts. If the single frame was a sharp static picture and was in between other sharp static pictures, the movie would look really weird playing at 24 fps whenever there was a lot of motion happening on the screen.
I can see the difference in a game running at 30 fps and 60 fps. Both look like they are moving pictures and not a series of still images being constantly redrawn, but there is a distinction i can make between the two. You probably can too. Setup a blind seeing test if you want to find out.
I also prefer games at a constant 60fps over games at a constant 30fps. I notice the difference. I like the 60fps ones more.
Foxit, the maker of the Foxit PDF reader claims ISO-32000 compliance for their Enterprise Edition on their website. I couldn't find the binary as this version requires registration and looks like it costs money. Their regular free version is currently 14MB for the installer. I don't know how compliant it is, but it can't be too far (it reads all PDF's I've thrown at it).
So how much of Adobe Reader code is not for conforming to ISO 32000 and instead for supporting additional features that are not in the standard and for features for interoperability with other Adobe products that have nothing to do with the simple task of opening and rendering a PDF file? My hunch is quite a bit. More code == more possibilities of vulnerabilities.
I realize Foxit Reader is probably no more secure than Adobe Reader (except for having the smaller attack surface) but I like that it is very unpopular and thus does not get targeted as much by malicious hackers.
So it is possible that bitcoins will lose their main function, to act as a currency for exchange, and will become purely a speculative commodity?
What would cause deflation in BitCoin if it took off? If anything, if BitCoin were to take off in a major way there would be massive inflation (inflation in the sense of value of BitCoin to other currencies, i.e., instead of costing $7 for a bitcoin, it would now cost $70)
Oh god, conservative vs. liberal with ((mac vs pc) vs linux) on an Easter Sunday.......I'm gonna go steal eggs from kids or something.
And I now notice you did not say one thing about the thesis, just the parent post's arguments, so my reply was a little hasty. So then the question remains, why does China (as a government, and as an assumed general consensus of the Chinese population) seem to condone conducting industrial espionage on the rest of the world? My own argument is pretty simple: they want to win.
Aside from the errors in the OPs post that you rightfully pointed out, and the flaw in his reasoning, you are saying that he/she is incorrect in his thesis, and that China (government and people's mentality) does not implicitly condone spying on other countries to conduct industrial espionage? Because it looks to me like they do.
The 3ds is a handheld console that does 3-dimensional displays (3-d like Avatar 3-D, or Tron 3-D) without the need for glasses. The mention of bringing mario to 3-d refers to bringing it to a console with a 3-dimensional display, not to having a game that takes place in a 3-d world/environment, like mario 64 and all the others.
Last time I checked (a few years ago), Al-Jazeera was a shining example of independent journalism that reports all sides of a story, and is criticized in the West for being too pro-Islam, and very harshly criticized in the Islamic world for being too anti-Islam. Have things changed? Can you please cite me an example of Al-Jazeera having an agenda (other than "the truth", which is what Al-Jazeera means)?
Al-Jazeera receives funding from the government of Qatar (and is based in Qatar). The government of Qatar is a pretty big ally of the government of the United States. The government of the United State is a pretty big supporter of the Government of Israel. You make of that what you will when you see them report on news that is not taken well in Israel, the United State, or Qatar.
And if the company refuses to sell, because they are, literally, sitting on a goldmine (of black gold)?
My first thought (if this claim is true) was how soon until the engineers, scientists and owners of this company start disappearing, dying in car accidents or having cancer............
Instead of funny this comment should be modded deeply insightful.
This creeps me the fuck out on a base level.
I agree with you and hate to be a nitpicker, but the Declaration of Independence is not part of US law. It is a statement of principles and reasons for the thirteen colonies rebelling against the British Empire. Legal rights start at and derive from the US Constitution. The Declaration of Independence was and is tremendously influential towards US political philosophy, so maybe what you meant to say is that "clearly the rights enshrined in US government philosophy are intended to apply to all humans." And yes, we have never fully lived up to our principles, and have done many things completely counter to them throughout history and up until now, and that it is the job, the duty of the citizens of the country, to keep the government continually in check, even when it means inconveniencing our lives.
Subpoenaing Private Manning in this case is not unusual. He is involved in a criminal investigation.
I am not familiar with all of the other names on that short list. The ones I am familiar with are not US citizens. Non US citizens outside of the territory of the US do not have any of the same rights that US citizens have. (Non US citizens inside the territory of the United States have very many rights). Subpoenaing the records of non-US citizens that are currently not located inside of a US territory is not against any law I know of. IANAL, please someone that has more knowledge clarify that issue.
Also, the US government does do things I do not agree with. Bringing up a list of bad things the government does/has done and tying it into this, when there is little relation, does not help your cause.
There is a catch-22 situation of exposing government bad stuff. Most (but not all) government bad stuff is classified, not necessarily to hide the government doing bad stuff, but for other security reasons. If you really want more of this to come to light, support more political candidates that support greater government transparency. Texas Senator Ron Paul comes to mind, but before you blindly support him because his views on say US foreign policy and the economy align with yours, investigate the whole man and all his beliefs (he is extremely conservative. More so than any other Republican conservative).
Also you say "your country" so I assume you mean that you are not a US citizen. The problems of the US are best solved by US citizens, but unfortunately most of us can't be bothered to stop and think about our government.
They should just tell the students who don't pay attention not to even bother showing up, and save the students a walk or a drive and save the teacher a half classroom full of teaching-energy suckers.
Whoosh
Name three countries please that the US has attacked that have oil, that don't have nukes, and that refuse to play ball.
In the last thousand years, until recently, there were no Jews in the Muslim world because all the Jews in those areas were slaughtered and persecuted even longer ago and Jews didn't move back in. Even the Muslim world has calmed its ways a bit in this last millennium.
This is a very common misconception. It is not true. Until about the beginning of the 20th century (1900 ad) Jews lived in the Middle East and in other Muslim countries in the area in relative peace.
Animosity between Arab and Muslim countries (Iran is a Muslim country but IS NOT an Arab country) increased greatly in the last century for a variety of reasons. The creation of the state of Israel and the handling of some of the non-Jews living in that reason prior is one of the issues. Israel has done what it thinks is best* to ensure the continued existence of the state of Israel, and as they still exist 60 years later, they have been successful so far. Israel puts its own interests above the interests of the region. Why should they do anything else? Why should any nation state do anything else?
*This includes maintaining a very strong military, which they have used to defend themselves from foreign aggression as well as to be aggressors in preemptive wars and doing preemptive military strikes that they felt were in the interests of Israel. Includes using assassination as one of their options. Includes developing strong alliances with countries that can help them (most notably the USA). Includes expanding their borders into areas that are strategically significant.