The first was a group of 7400 logic chips wired together to form a 6-bit computer with a real simple instruction set. I'm pretyt sure it would have worked properly - had access to memory etc.
The second was really a C64 and all of it's components re-designed / simplified. I added banked memory / a lcd controller driver etc.
I was always too lazy with these guys to actually build the stupid thing. I now look back and wish I had built the 6-bit 7400 one...
Hmm? I thought cats were the supreme beings on this planet. I would be willing to bet you that there has been human evolution solely derived from Mankinds beneficial association with cats.
My cats are making me type this. They are in^H^Hnot in command - they're just want to rule^H^H^H^Hpurr and be friendly.
Seriously 'tho - Can anybody spot any evolutionary trends since Mankind started domesticating animals that arised solely out of that domestication?
Nope - if you look at the cycle times for NOP ( no operation ) you'll see it takes 2 cycles. This was a fundamental design in the 6502 specifically because of the fetch / write cycle it has.
The base 6502 was not overlapped.
Goto www.6502.org and there's some cycle/opcode charts you can verify.
The z80 was so slow because of the immense overhead per instruction.
I consider it rude because most people who are on a phone call don't realize the level at which they are really speaking. _You_ may think it's at a normal volume when it's really not. It's one of those chicken and egg things : you have to be outside of the conversation to really hear how loud the conversation is taking.
I also consider it rude in a group. If a person has decided not to join the group then there is no reason they should be intruding upon the group. Telephones, are in my opinion, the nastiest piece of equipment there is. WHat other device allows people to intrude upon your personal life at someone else's whim?
( And before you ask, I carry a pager as part of the job requirement - not because I want to. The cell phone is normally off unless _I_ need to make a call -- I'm not going to pay for somebody to have the privlage of interrupting me whenever they feel like it. )
1) When in a crowd ( either eating, sports, or movies ) always turn pagers to vibrate and cell phones off ( unless they too, can be configured to vibrate ).
2) If a call or page arrives while in a crowded place walk to the lobby or outside before placing the phone call.
3) Finish the phone call at that place and then set it back into the quiet mode.
-------- I _HATE_ people talking on the phone in restaurants. I want them to get a blow up person - place the cell phone in the blow up doll and with some simple wiring talk to the blow-up doll so they can have a normal conversation at a normal level - the same as everyone else.
And Yes, I *do* follow the rules I listed above. Even if it's freezing outside.
(e.g. a 4Mz Z80 was about the same speed as a 1Mz 6502 -- mostly becasuse the Z80 took 4 clock cycles to grab a byte of memory while a 6502 only took one).
Uh, The 6502 _always_ took at least 2 clock cycles ( typically only 2 )... The z80 on the other hand took an enourmas amount of clock cycle for some operations - often 4-6. I think that's where the differance came in.
I installed RC3 on my FXA47 laptop and everything worked perfectly except:
The power consumption on the battery just drained it super quick. XP tells me I have on average ~3.4 hours at full battery ( it's a lie - it's more like 2 hours ). Linux told me I had 45 minutes and sure enough I had 45 minutes.
The fan continually runs with RC3 - with XP it turns on ocassionally. This leads me to think that the power management features of the laptop are not being utilized ( sure, RC3 supports suspend etc - but I'm talking normal operation).
Anybody know if the actual release fixes this? I'd really love to put Mandrake on it but 45 minutes is awfully short.
Uh - That's what I thought I said.. Anyway, to restate:
Due emission of the signal and sampling of it it's about the same as a VCR recorder going except the sampler on the VCR doesn't have to do an scan - it's getting samples of the monitor gun firing at the current time. THis, coupled with a fairly easy routine to take those samples and display them into an array should yield a fairly good greyscale image ( possibly you can get more but... anyway.. ).
Because this is only a small alteration on the basic premise of a VCR I don't see what the big deal is.
It doesn't have to be. THe intent here was to read the text on the screen. Hence, through the combined output of the raster guns you can get a somewhat greyscale image.
From reading the pdf linked - it sounds like with a sufficiently high sammpling rate ( their words more or less ) it's possible to re-render the text. This should hold true to the way scan-guns work on most monitors.
What's new here? This is almost equivlant to putting a Video Camera infront of a monitor and then hooking the output up to your TV.
Geesh - Let's not go all lawerly here and make blind statements along the lines of "MS could sue distributions everywhere" -- They could only sue offending distributions.
How many lawyers are actually on Slashdot? How many immitation lawyers are on here?
is posting / allowing to be posted an account from which I periodically 2-3 times a week send out responses to spam mail I receive to administrators etc who host these sites. I've seen several closed down due to my tracepath'ing, etc...
If at least 10% of people gettting spam did this 2-3 times a week I gurantee that the people hosting these sites would quickly close up shop on these guys due to the amount of extra work involved. It would be the equivlent of a Slashdot mass-email bomb but would be legit.
Actually it'd probably work with 2% of the receipients following up with the hosting companies.
Slashdot Mirror
( designed ) - just never built them.
The first was a group of 7400 logic chips wired together to form a 6-bit computer with a real simple instruction set. I'm pretyt sure it would have worked properly - had access to memory etc.
The second was really a C64 and all of it's components re-designed / simplified. I added banked memory / a lcd controller driver etc.
I was always too lazy with these guys to actually build the stupid thing. I now look back and wish I had built the 6-bit 7400 one...
*sigh*
Hmm? I thought cats were the supreme beings on this planet. I would be willing to bet you that there has been human evolution solely derived from Mankinds beneficial association with cats.
My cats are making me type this. They are in^H^Hnot in command - they're just want to rule^H^H^H^Hpurr and be friendly.
Seriously 'tho - Can anybody spot any evolutionary trends since Mankind started domesticating animals that arised solely out of that domestication?
spontaneous combustion?
Thoughts for the weird...
Imagine one of these particles crashing into a human and the force that it would have. Ka-blooey there goes Fido on fire.
Heh? Are VidCards some new type of monster?
I didn't think the Matrix Reloaded would be that strange.
*rubs eyes*
Oh! - Okay. It makes sense now.
*wants one for his environment at work*
C'mon - You can never have too many polls.
Dude,
You sound like those guys on that move, Dude - Where's my car...
What have you been smoking?
It's not that it's a year old - it's just that somebody actually figured out how to stop time based upon this and is now posting it to slashdot...
Wait...
That didn't make sense...
Faster than light that is.
Geesh - Never thought I'd break any land-speed records. Now if I could only go faster than sound now...
( Somebody had to do it ).
A simple and somewhat efficient algorithm for finding the square root of a number goes as follows:
n = # ( say 25 ).
Count the number of sucessive odd numbers that add up but not over the target number.
eg: 1+3+5+7+9 = 25
....1.2.3.4.5 so 5^2 = 25.
Who knows what this is really called?
Nope - if you look at the cycle times for NOP ( no operation ) you'll see it takes 2 cycles. This was a fundamental design in the 6502 specifically because of the fetch / write cycle it has.
The base 6502 was not overlapped.
Goto www.6502.org and there's some cycle/opcode charts you can verify.
The z80 was so slow because of the immense overhead per instruction.
I consider it rude because most people who are on a phone call don't realize the level at which they are really speaking. _You_ may think it's at a normal volume when it's really not. It's one of those chicken and egg things : you have to be outside of the conversation to really hear how loud the conversation is taking.
I also consider it rude in a group. If a person has decided not to join the group then there is no reason they should be intruding upon the group. Telephones, are in my opinion, the nastiest piece of equipment there is. WHat other device allows people to intrude upon your personal life at someone else's whim?
( And before you ask, I carry a pager as part of the job requirement - not because I want to. The cell phone is normally off unless _I_ need to make a call -- I'm not going to pay for somebody to have the privlage of interrupting me whenever they feel like it. )
Rules:
1) When in a crowd ( either eating, sports, or movies ) always turn pagers to vibrate and cell phones off ( unless they too, can be configured to vibrate ).
2) If a call or page arrives while in a crowded place walk to the lobby or outside before placing the phone call.
3) Finish the phone call at that place and then set it back into the quiet mode.
--------
I _HATE_ people talking on the phone in restaurants. I want them to get a blow up person - place the cell phone in the blow up doll and with some simple wiring talk to the blow-up doll so they can have a normal conversation at a normal level - the same as everyone else.
And Yes, I *do* follow the rules I listed above. Even if it's freezing outside.
Did I spell Ettiquette right?
(e.g. a 4Mz Z80 was about the same speed as a 1Mz 6502 -- mostly becasuse the Z80 took 4 clock cycles to grab a byte of memory while a 6502 only took one).
Uh, The 6502 _always_ took at least 2 clock cycles ( typically only 2 )... The z80 on the other hand took an enourmas amount of clock cycle for some operations - often 4-6. I think that's where the differance came in.
Really? They offer one for the C-64?
Seriously, a guy Cameron Kaiser ( I think that's his name ) is routinly reading / posting on the comp.sys.cbm newsgroup from a C64.
I asked them for access to setup my email account up as a mailserver. They reviewed the request ( taking two weeks to do it ) and denied it.
I asked the person if they minded if I set up a mail server using my normal student access / privlages. She said if I could they wouldn't mind.
Within 2 days I had written a mailserver. I got word back later that they weren't expecting me to actually be able to write it.
VAX DCL scripting - It's still out there somewhere.
It's true. Dragon's Lair is going to be made into a movie. Heard this from a friend of mine at a gaming store referancing one of the gaming mags.
I wonder how many of the old Dragon's Lair fanatics are going to be yelling, Left, Right, Right, Left, Up during certain portions of the movie.
I installed RC3 on my FXA47 laptop and everything worked perfectly except :
The power consumption on the battery just drained it super quick. XP tells me I have on average ~3.4 hours at full battery ( it's a lie - it's more like 2 hours ). Linux told me I had 45 minutes and sure enough I had 45 minutes.
The fan continually runs with RC3 - with XP it turns on ocassionally. This leads me to think that the power management features of the laptop are not being utilized ( sure, RC3 supports suspend etc - but I'm talking normal operation).
Anybody know if the actual release fixes this? I'd really love to put Mandrake on it but 45 minutes is awfully short.
... "still insist that it's the love put into each sandwich by a dedicated MacDonalds employee..."
Eggh - That's the secret sauce? Aaaah gross. No.
( Now I know why I don't like McDonald's... )
[ Sorry - I just read it wrong ].
before the photograph was developed.
I'm serious - I wonder how many of these images are accidental defects in the photo plates etc.
Anybody ever head of a news relezse and then retracting it?
Uh - That's what I thought I said.. Anyway, to restate:
... anyway.. ).
Due emission of the signal and sampling of it it's about the same as a VCR recorder going except the sampler on the VCR doesn't have to do an scan - it's getting samples of the monitor gun firing at the current time. THis, coupled with a fairly easy routine to take those samples and display them into an array should yield a fairly good greyscale image ( possibly you can get more but
Because this is only a small alteration on the basic premise of a VCR I don't see what the big deal is.
It doesn't have to be. THe intent here was to read the text on the screen. Hence, through the combined output of the raster guns you can get a somewhat greyscale image.
From reading the pdf linked - it sounds like with a sufficiently high sammpling rate ( their words more or less ) it's possible to re-render the text. This should hold true to the way scan-guns work on most monitors.
What's new here? This is almost equivlant to putting a Video Camera infront of a monitor and then hooking the output up to your TV.
Geesh - Let's not go all lawerly here and make blind statements along the lines of "MS could sue distributions everywhere" -- They could only sue offending distributions.
:-)
How many lawyers are actually on Slashdot? How many immitation lawyers are on here?
BTW - I'm not a lawyer.
I wonder what would happen if somebody walked in and did try to register a box of 50 or so. Hmmmm.... Fun things to harrass the government with.
is posting / allowing to be posted an account from which I periodically 2-3 times a week send out responses to spam mail I receive to administrators etc who host these sites. I've seen several closed down due to my tracepath'ing, etc...
If at least 10% of people gettting spam did this 2-3 times a week I gurantee that the people hosting these sites would quickly close up shop on these guys due to the amount of extra work involved. It would be the equivlent of a Slashdot mass-email bomb but would be legit.
Actually it'd probably work with 2% of the receipients following up with the hosting companies.