Where I work there are always big questions when ever someone says slot 1. Did you mean slot 1 as in 1-16, or slot 1 as in 0-15. Of course hardware loves the 0-15 notation because it fits in 4 bits so nicely, while users like the 1-16 arangement because you start counting from 1. Every computer scientist recignises out problem, and most have faced it.
Metric could be called the problem, if Nasa had been using the older imperial units there wouldn't have been a problem. Of course if the whole thing was metric there wouldn't be a problem either. It doesn't matter in the end, becuase metric's big advantage is unit conversions, and nobody does unit conversions, even in metric where they are easy too many mistakes are made.
You need to find a better employer. Mine not only pays for my DSL line (and ISDN before at twice the cost and 1/4 the speed), they encourage me to work from home. When I really have to get work done my boss doesn't want co-worker's problems to interupt me.
where I live snow is a problem. Several times a year most people don't show up to work becuase there is too much ice, and most years at least once we close the entire plant because it is too dangerious to drive. So a work from home solution pays for itself.
Morre's law applies, so if you choose a processor that turns out to not be fast enough, you can install one twice as fast when you ship, and if that isn't fast enough, then none of today's current processors are fast enough either. Of course if you depend on one feature a lot, then you should choose a processor that has it, but normally this isn't an issue)
Where I work we use the strongArm (SA110) a nice chip overall. However the diagnostics people estimate that we lost an year of devolpment because there is (or was?) no in circuit emulator. however the StrogArm has some nice supporting hardware, so it took us less time to design the hardware.
x86 is an ugly instruction set. You should reject all x86 thoughts just based on that. Any assembly programers can learn whatever you choose, and most work is done in something else (C/C++ normally), so those who are not assembly experts should have a nice binary to look at for the rare times they do have to look at a disassembled output. RISK is really nice for that reason.
It is all a trade off. However speed isn't important. How nice it is to design the hardware, and how nice it is to program (and debug!) for your application are important. Don't forget power consumption/cooling requirements.
I have no doupt that there are some things I didn't mention because it isn't a problem for the things I work with, but you should look.
(The real kicker) They explicitly claim ownership of all
intellectual property that you generate and that passes through
their network.
This is good. Now generate some illegal content (slander, or copyright violations), and then use as your defense "The cable company (which has deeper pockets) owns that content, so sue them not me.
True, but with a buisness line you get a listing in the yellow pages, and you typically make more peak time calls. (Yes a steriotypical teen might spend more time on the phone, but that is not peak hours)
Both make a buisness line more expensive, though I'm not sure that it is that much more.
Pick your laptop based on merit. That means the speed,size,resolution,contrast,memroy,battery trade off. notice that the screen is a big factor in many of those! Choose your laptop based on features, and if it has a good chip, great.
Now if you don't like one company, then not buying from it could be understood, but there are 3 companies producing x86 chips, so that can't be your factor.
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that isn't strictly true, however deer season is only open for a couple weeks a year. That least 50 weeks of boredom and 2 weeks of watching out for your life while trying to kill something else.
I don't know about that other guy you mentioned, but the French had been flying for years when the Wright brothers first flew. This difference is when the wright brothers were in their cradle french were making uncontrolled hops of 150 feet (meters?), while the wright brothers were able to make fully controled flights lasting several hours.
Of course fully controlled is relative, by todays standard the control was primative, but they were able to safely stay in the air for hours, and come down where they wanted to. Compare that to those who were unable to control their flights.
Fact is there are several people who claim to have invented radio, and all of some creditability, though there may have been some revision of the history involved. (THe russians in particular claim to have done so first, but there have been accuzations that they re-wrote history to call those who were close inventers - due to the Soviet rule we will probably never know for sure)
In any case, Marconni was important in radio even if he invented nothing - he popularized it, and was responsiable for making this transmission possibal. How much invented he did is open for debate.
Well I've never attempted a car, though I know it is done. However my Great uncle made several tractors from the ground up after he retired. Sure you need special tools, but it isn't hard to make the tools, and if you don't want to buy iron it isn't hard to mine the ore and refine it. (I could do it in my backyard, but I live in a area with a lot of low grade iron ore. worthless to industry, but there) Obviously time is a factor, the more you try to do yourself, the less finished product you can do.
Search the internet and you will find many pictures of engines that people have built themselves for their hobby.
To someone who knows (or is willing to learn) their way around a machine shop the above is about as difficult as writing a non-trivial program. Perhaps easier, Linux is still working on linux 10 years later, while my great-uncle built 10 tractors in 10 years. (Though he was retired, so time comparitions are bogus)
The quality of your vinal is a constant, unless you can find a different record to work with. However you can improve the record player. Many audiophiles insist they can hear the quality improvement with vinal and a good player. See if one will let your borrow his equipment for this job. It will probably mean working at his house, and buying a new neddle, but it might be worth it. (And of course under supervision so you don't break anything)
Remember, you are taking your last shot at these lps, so you want to do a good a job as you can. You may not be able to do it over.
YMMV, there is nice people who would love to help, and #%^^*&%@ who you don't want to deal with, in every hobby. Good luck, it is worth a shot.
I would never put a beginner on anything but a mac. I can support macs over the phone, when it doesn't work it is obvious how to make it work. Windows doesn't do that, unix doesn't do that. So macs are there by default. And linux will run on a mac so you have a good upgrade path.
Get rid of your PC bias, and get her a real graphics computer. Remember, even if the PC was better, all other artists use a mac, so she has to. Thats why windows is popular, everyone uses it, except in her world it is the mac.
I'm sure flash is useful for something, but I've never had a flash plug in on my computer and never missed it. Lynx works great for 95% of the web sites I work with, and the rest are either broken (you must have javascript and a 4.x browser to use, even though if I manually bypass those warnings it works), or accually have content that relys on graphics.
Do you really need flash? Are you sure. I'm sure there are people who will answer yes. I wouldn't expect a artist to produce anything that is useful to the blind, and I wouldn't expect their websites to work without images. The are likewise similear examples of other catagories that need extra content. Most places that have flash don't have anything to do with something that needs it.
More importantly, many companies have a site license for win95. Microsoft will not sell them one for win98. Where I work anyone running win98 must support their own systems, and personally keep track of that little piece of paper that is their license to win98. Anyone willing to run win95 will get full support from IS. This is strictly a legal issue, by adopting this policy the company isn't liable if that slip of paper that is your license is lost.
Have you forgotten Moon Patrol? Cool side scrolling game. You couldn't do nearly as much, but then it came out a lot earlier. I seem to recall other side scrolling games as well, though few were particularly memerable.
Most of the old car work was thing like points, and carberators. Both are gone, replaced by something that is not only more reliable, but easier to controll. A good hacker can replace the comptuer on his car with something tuned to his likeing, and has more information doing it. Old cars never had O2 sensors to help you figgure out what the right mixture setting on the carbrator, new cars have that sensor, and the ability to change things in REAL TIME for the best mixture. (for some definition of best understanding the emissions/proformance/milage trade off)
Sure it is more work, but then turning a screw on the carb wasn't a hack it was just easy to do, and needed to be done often enough that everyone could do it. Today there are no screws to turn so the real work is a real hack.
When I really need to concentrate I find ear plugs are perfect. Now that my comptuer is a lot power laptop and NCD there are no fans on my desk, but just the heating system is annoying when I really need to think of a problem.
I don't like headphones. Maybe wireless would be okay, but wired are really annoying. A normal radio on low volumn works for my co-workers. Technically it is against the rules here, but the volume is so low you have to be in their cube to hear it. The key is even a whisper in you cube will drown out the radio.
Alternativly, sometimes instead of sitting on my chair I stand on my knees in from of the computer. Works for me, though it can only be done for so long.
Text adventures are still alive and well, and still to this day feature better graphics than any console. (Even if you have a 1600x1200 monitory, text adventures feature more detail, you can zoom in infinantly on any area if your imangination is good enough)
Text adventures have always been puzzles and NPC interactoin. Sure there is a strong movement away from pure puzzles in the text adventure world, but they are still there. Doom is about finding the blue key, while Zork is getting the theif to do what you can't do yourself.
Accually we do it differently. Because there is overhead in jumping to a ISR, once we get an interupt, we disable interupts, keep polling for more data until there is none for a while. Since we only deal with one data stream per processor, this isn't very hard to program, and allows us to get a lot of throuput.
Remember, for our application it turns out to work good, in general you are right, the less time in an ISR the better.
Most embedded componants that I know of use an in house OS. Where I work we bought vxWorks, but we are seriously considering replacing it with something cheaper. Not linux, something we write in house. It turns out that most real time systems cannot afford the overhead of a OS. Sure we need something to deal with hardware, and schedualing, and if you have networking it is nice to have sockets are similear. In the end though, a OS gets in the way more then helps.
In our particular case we have a lot of code to jump out of interupt context and then back in every 15 seconds. That really hurts performance. (Yes, we often want to spend more then 15 seconds processing interupts, with out hardware it turns out to be a good idea, though I don't want to give away why) Of course the OS clocks get all screwed up when we do that.
I've learned, IF I go to these things, I stay for the food, and then leave. Unless there is smoke in the room, then I won't even enter.
I don't drink, don't force me to, I'll quit first.
I know a few people at work I will talk to. But my life isn't my work. I'd prefer to be back home melting metal or some other hooby than playing some silly game.
Depends on how it was designed. Most houses today have attics above cathedral ceilings. The roof is 6/12, and the ceiling is 4/12, or something like that. This is pretty much a requirement in cold areas, so you can afford to heat the room.
There were two versions of Basic for the Atari, Atari Basic and Microsoft basic. Very few people used Microsoft basic, but it was sold. Atari basic was very common. A cartrage for the 400/800, and build into rom for the rest. (I'm not sure about the 1200xl)
AFAIK atari never shiped MS basic, and MS basic was always loaded from disk, not a cartrage. I could be wrong from the latter. I remember my [irate disk version of MS basic never loaded. (appearently copy protected?)
I know nothing about net.com. network.com (the company I work for) was started in the 1970s (74 I think), and made a bunch of networking products, mostly for mainframes. I'm not sure if they were multi-protocol before Cisco, but I suspect so. The company was bought out by StorageTek a few years back.
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Sure, and then it is something else.
Where I work there are always big questions when ever someone says slot 1. Did you mean slot 1 as in 1-16, or slot 1 as in 0-15. Of course hardware loves the 0-15 notation because it fits in 4 bits so nicely, while users like the 1-16 arangement because you start counting from 1. Every computer scientist recignises out problem, and most have faced it.
Metric could be called the problem, if Nasa had been using the older imperial units there wouldn't have been a problem. Of course if the whole thing was metric there wouldn't be a problem either. It doesn't matter in the end, becuase metric's big advantage is unit conversions, and nobody does unit conversions, even in metric where they are easy too many mistakes are made.
You need to find a better employer. Mine not only pays for my DSL line (and ISDN before at twice the cost and 1/4 the speed), they encourage me to work from home. When I really have to get work done my boss doesn't want co-worker's problems to interupt me.
where I live snow is a problem. Several times a year most people don't show up to work becuase there is too much ice, and most years at least once we close the entire plant because it is too dangerious to drive. So a work from home solution pays for itself.
Morre's law applies, so if you choose a processor that turns out to not be fast enough, you can install one twice as fast when you ship, and if that isn't fast enough, then none of today's current processors are fast enough either. Of course if you depend on one feature a lot, then you should choose a processor that has it, but normally this isn't an issue)
Where I work we use the strongArm (SA110) a nice chip overall. However the diagnostics people estimate that we lost an year of devolpment because there is (or was?) no in circuit emulator. however the StrogArm has some nice supporting hardware, so it took us less time to design the hardware.
x86 is an ugly instruction set. You should reject all x86 thoughts just based on that. Any assembly programers can learn whatever you choose, and most work is done in something else (C/C++ normally), so those who are not assembly experts should have a nice binary to look at for the rare times they do have to look at a disassembled output. RISK is really nice for that reason.
It is all a trade off. However speed isn't important. How nice it is to design the hardware, and how nice it is to program (and debug!) for your application are important. Don't forget power consumption/cooling requirements.
I have no doupt that there are some things I didn't mention because it isn't a problem for the things I work with, but you should look.
(The real kicker) They explicitly claim ownership of all intellectual property that you generate and that passes through their network.
This is good. Now generate some illegal content (slander, or copyright violations), and then use as your defense "The cable company (which has deeper pockets) owns that content, so sue them not me.
True, but with a buisness line you get a listing in the yellow pages, and you typically make more peak time calls. (Yes a steriotypical teen might spend more time on the phone, but that is not peak hours)
Both make a buisness line more expensive, though I'm not sure that it is that much more.
Pick your laptop based on merit. That means the speed,size,resolution,contrast,memroy,battery trade off. notice that the screen is a big factor in many of those! Choose your laptop based on features, and if it has a good chip, great.
Now if you don't like one company, then not buying from it could be understood, but there are 3 companies producing x86 chips, so that can't be your factor.
that isn't strictly true, however deer season is only open for a couple weeks a year. That least 50 weeks of boredom and 2 weeks of watching out for your life while trying to kill something else.
I don't know about that other guy you mentioned, but the French had been flying for years when the Wright brothers first flew. This difference is when the wright brothers were in their cradle french were making uncontrolled hops of 150 feet (meters?), while the wright brothers were able to make fully controled flights lasting several hours.
Of course fully controlled is relative, by todays standard the control was primative, but they were able to safely stay in the air for hours, and come down where they wanted to. Compare that to those who were unable to control their flights.
Fact is there are several people who claim to have invented radio, and all of some creditability, though there may have been some revision of the history involved. (THe russians in particular claim to have done so first, but there have been accuzations that they re-wrote history to call those who were close inventers - due to the Soviet rule we will probably never know for sure)
In any case, Marconni was important in radio even if he invented nothing - he popularized it, and was responsiable for making this transmission possibal. How much invented he did is open for debate.
(how could you make a car yourself, ground up?)
Well I've never attempted a car, though I know it is done. However my Great uncle made several tractors from the ground up after he retired. Sure you need special tools, but it isn't hard to make the tools, and if you don't want to buy iron it isn't hard to mine the ore and refine it. (I could do it in my backyard, but I live in a area with a lot of low grade iron ore. worthless to industry, but there) Obviously time is a factor, the more you try to do yourself, the less finished product you can do.
Search the internet and you will find many pictures of engines that people have built themselves for their hobby.
To someone who knows (or is willing to learn) their way around a machine shop the above is about as difficult as writing a non-trivial program. Perhaps easier, Linux is still working on linux 10 years later, while my great-uncle built 10 tractors in 10 years. (Though he was retired, so time comparitions are bogus)
The quality of your vinal is a constant, unless you can find a different record to work with. However you can improve the record player. Many audiophiles insist they can hear the quality improvement with vinal and a good player. See if one will let your borrow his equipment for this job. It will probably mean working at his house, and buying a new neddle, but it might be worth it. (And of course under supervision so you don't break anything)
Remember, you are taking your last shot at these lps, so you want to do a good a job as you can. You may not be able to do it over.
YMMV, there is nice people who would love to help, and #%^^*&%@ who you don't want to deal with, in every hobby. Good luck, it is worth a shot.
I would never put a beginner on anything but a mac. I can support macs over the phone, when it doesn't work it is obvious how to make it work. Windows doesn't do that, unix doesn't do that. So macs are there by default. And linux will run on a mac so you have a good upgrade path.
Get rid of your PC bias, and get her a real graphics computer. Remember, even if the PC was better, all other artists use a mac, so she has to. Thats why windows is popular, everyone uses it, except in her world it is the mac.
I'm sure flash is useful for something, but I've never had a flash plug in on my computer and never missed it. Lynx works great for 95% of the web sites I work with, and the rest are either broken (you must have javascript and a 4.x browser to use, even though if I manually bypass those warnings it works), or accually have content that relys on graphics.
Do you really need flash? Are you sure. I'm sure there are people who will answer yes. I wouldn't expect a artist to produce anything that is useful to the blind, and I wouldn't expect their websites to work without images. The are likewise similear examples of other catagories that need extra content. Most places that have flash don't have anything to do with something that needs it.
More importantly, many companies have a site license for win95. Microsoft will not sell them one for win98. Where I work anyone running win98 must support their own systems, and personally keep track of that little piece of paper that is their license to win98. Anyone willing to run win95 will get full support from IS. This is strictly a legal issue, by adopting this policy the company isn't liable if that slip of paper that is your license is lost.
first side scrolling action
Have you forgotten Moon Patrol? Cool side scrolling game. You couldn't do nearly as much, but then it came out a lot earlier. I seem to recall other side scrolling games as well, though few were particularly memerable.
Most of the old car work was thing like points, and carberators. Both are gone, replaced by something that is not only more reliable, but easier to controll. A good hacker can replace the comptuer on his car with something tuned to his likeing, and has more information doing it. Old cars never had O2 sensors to help you figgure out what the right mixture setting on the carbrator, new cars have that sensor, and the ability to change things in REAL TIME for the best mixture. (for some definition of best understanding the emissions/proformance/milage trade off)
Sure it is more work, but then turning a screw on the carb wasn't a hack it was just easy to do, and needed to be done often enough that everyone could do it. Today there are no screws to turn so the real work is a real hack.
When I really need to concentrate I find ear plugs are perfect. Now that my comptuer is a lot power laptop and NCD there are no fans on my desk, but just the heating system is annoying when I really need to think of a problem.
I don't like headphones. Maybe wireless would be okay, but wired are really annoying. A normal radio on low volumn works for my co-workers. Technically it is against the rules here, but the volume is so low you have to be in their cube to hear it. The key is even a whisper in you cube will drown out the radio.
Alternativly, sometimes instead of sitting on my chair I stand on my knees in from of the computer. Works for me, though it can only be done for so long.
Text adventures are still alive and well, and still to this day feature better graphics than any console. (Even if you have a 1600x1200 monitory, text adventures feature more detail, you can zoom in infinantly on any area if your imangination is good enough)
Text adventures have always been puzzles and NPC interactoin. Sure there is a strong movement away from pure puzzles in the text adventure world, but they are still there. Doom is about finding the blue key, while Zork is getting the theif to do what you can't do yourself.
Accually we do it differently. Because there is overhead in jumping to a ISR, once we get an interupt, we disable interupts, keep polling for more data until there is none for a while. Since we only deal with one data stream per processor, this isn't very hard to program, and allows us to get a lot of throuput.
Remember, for our application it turns out to work good, in general you are right, the less time in an ISR the better.
Most embedded componants that I know of use an in house OS. Where I work we bought vxWorks, but we are seriously considering replacing it with something cheaper. Not linux, something we write in house. It turns out that most real time systems cannot afford the overhead of a OS. Sure we need something to deal with hardware, and schedualing, and if you have networking it is nice to have sockets are similear. In the end though, a OS gets in the way more then helps.
In our particular case we have a lot of code to jump out of interupt context and then back in every 15 seconds. That really hurts performance. (Yes, we often want to spend more then 15 seconds processing interupts, with out hardware it turns out to be a good idea, though I don't want to give away why) Of course the OS clocks get all screwed up when we do that.
I've learned, IF I go to these things, I stay for the food, and then leave. Unless there is smoke in the room, then I won't even enter.
I don't drink, don't force me to, I'll quit first.
I know a few people at work I will talk to. But my life isn't my work. I'd prefer to be back home melting metal or some other hooby than playing some silly game.
Depends on how it was designed. Most houses today have attics above cathedral ceilings. The roof is 6/12, and the ceiling is 4/12, or something like that. This is pretty much a requirement in cold areas, so you can afford to heat the room.
There were two versions of Basic for the Atari, Atari Basic and Microsoft basic. Very few people used Microsoft basic, but it was sold. Atari basic was very common. A cartrage for the 400/800, and build into rom for the rest. (I'm not sure about the 1200xl)
AFAIK atari never shiped MS basic, and MS basic was always loaded from disk, not a cartrage. I could be wrong from the latter. I remember my [irate disk version of MS basic never loaded. (appearently copy protected?)
I know nothing about net.com. network.com (the company I work for) was started in the 1970s (74 I think), and made a bunch of networking products, mostly for mainframes. I'm not sure if they were multi-protocol before Cisco, but I suspect so. The company was bought out by StorageTek a few years back.