They design a digital interface in 2000s and forget to put such thing in spec.
They got it in eventually in HDMI v1.2a, according to wikipedia (the CEC channel). Of course, it's completely optional and hence I've yet to meet a piece of eqpt that supports it.
This may also have something to do with it:
Alternative names for CEC are Anynet (Samsung), Aquos Link (Sharp), BRAVIA Theatre Sync (Sony), Regza Link (Toshiba), RIHD (Onkyo), Simplink (LG), Viera Link/EZ-Sync (Panasonic/JVC), Easylink (Philips) and NetCommand for HDMI (Mitsubishi).
Muppets.
It's like they were trying to outdo Bluetooth in the 'dead in the water launch' awards.
The pixels in memory were stored in a funny way: the first 8 bits was 8 consecutive horizontal pixels. The next 8 bits were under the first 8 pixels and so on until it made up an 8x8 pixel square. Then, it moved on to the next 8x8 square in the row. Wierd.
Zalaga (runs as fast and smooth as the arcade game it was taken from, Galaga)
Oh please. It certainly ran fast, but no way was it as smooth as the arcade game. The sprites would move about 2 inches per frame; that's how Orlando got the speed. Play Galaga on XBLA and then try Zalaga on a Beeb emulator.
Back then your teacher was often a maths teacher who didn't really understand the computers so they did all they could - which generally amounted to "have the children type in this program line by line, they must get it all typed in right and must be punished for attempting to learn anything outside of what this program does"
I remember taking a 'test' at school in 'Computer Studies' - we used to have Commodore PETs and BBC Micros.
One of the questons was:
"If you walk up to a computer and turn it on, and type 'PRINT A' followed by return, what will you see on (A) A BBC Micro, and (B) A Commodore PET."
To my mind, it was a really stupid question, but, being familiar with both computers, I answered (A) as 'No such variable' and (B) as '0'.
When it came time to pass your paper to you neighbour to have it marked, I was told this was wrong. Apparently the teacher thought the PET would also complain about 'No such variable'. I argued. The teacher insisted they were right, eventually saying in a smug 'teacher knows best' way, "Well, Tim, if you think you know best, why don't you try it now in front of the whole class?"
You can probably guess how that went:-).
What seemed stupid to me was that the question was so obviously phrased with the assumption that they would behave differently. I assumed the test must have been written by another teacher.
I was somewhat nervous, but it did feel good when the trusty PET choked up the answer '0'.
This is of course assumes that after 15 minutes of trying and failing to get the voice recognition software to work at all doesn't cause one to just simply give up, which is most likely.
It also assumes:
Voice recognition always requires training
Everyone is born with the innate ability to use a qwerty keyboard
Ubiquitous? I haven't seen a turbo button in years. I used to use them though - to turn off the turbo speed to debug redraw bugs under Windows 3.1 in an illustration package I was working on. It slowed down things enough so you could often see where it went wrong. And when I say it, I mean my code, of course.
It reminds me of when a fellow developer was trying to debug stuff, and couldn't see what was going wrong. Another developer said, "Ah, but what happens when you do this?", and pressed the turbo button. Or so he thought. The first developer, somewhat bemused to see the screen go blank and the BIOS screen appear, said slowly, "Well, it resets my PC. Duh."
My point was also that you deal with your bank in the matter of currency.
In Facebook, that currency is your personal info, and your eyeballs on adverts. It's like saying why can't you deal with your bank without them having to keep hold of your money, and earn interest on it, etc. It's what they do. It's how it works.
Facebook makes most of this reasonably obvious, but they're banking (ha!) on the average person not caring or reading what they're told.
I don't have much opinion on whether this is good or bad. It's obvious to me that a site like Facebook has to make what money it can from advertising or using/selling personal info, so I treat it as such. I guess it's not obvious to a lot of people, and they don't. I find it hard to get worked up about it. As many people have said, if you really don't want your personal info made public, don't put it on the internet.
It shouldn't be a requirement to "allow this application to access my personal information". Why a Tetris application REQUIRES such access is the reason i have a boring, application-less profile.
Unfortunately, those applications are developed by people who want your personal information. There's very little chance of them allowing you to use the app without you giving them access to that info. It's what they want. It's why they're doing it. They just want to advertise to you, and targetted advertising is even better.
Have a look at the facebook dev boards. It's full of people asking how many users they can get, how to get more users, how they can get around the restrictions FB keep adding, moaning about those restrictions (What? I can't spam 500 friends when someone installs an app? Waaahh!), how much they will be able to charge someone else to buy their app when it has X number of users, blah blah.
They're not doing it to be nice. Private info and advertising is all they get out of it. It's not like Facebook hosts their apps for free, either.
Let me assure you, he's not above scrounging lifts in such cars. And then spending the journey lambasting the driver for the way they earns a living to support their family (writing proprietary software).
From a sexual point of view, most women are still part conditioned and part pre-programmed to want male ahem companionship. (I could put this much more crudely but I won't).
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Also, notice how the US appears half the size in the second map than it does in the first.
Here's something for you to try:
Similarly, compare, say, the size of the US to the size of Greenland on Google Maps, and then look on a globe to confirm your findings.
Believing that text entry is 'simple' is probably one of the reasons so much software has a problem with it.
Whereas resizing a Finder window on all those OSs was silky smooth :-)
Not to mention a stringed instrument!
The thing is, Apple were warned many times in the past that the tea they served was too hot, so a lawsuit isn't so silly.
They got it in eventually in HDMI v1.2a, according to wikipedia (the CEC channel). Of course, it's completely optional and hence I've yet to meet a piece of eqpt that supports it.
This may also have something to do with it:
Alternative names for CEC are Anynet (Samsung), Aquos Link (Sharp), BRAVIA Theatre Sync (Sony), Regza Link (Toshiba), RIHD (Onkyo), Simplink (LG), Viera Link/EZ-Sync (Panasonic/JVC), Easylink (Philips) and NetCommand for HDMI (Mitsubishi).Muppets.
It's like they were trying to outdo Bluetooth in the 'dead in the water launch' awards.
Not on my overwatch.
I played Labyrinth too - but watching your video it only just struck me - is this the first documented appearance of the Companion Cube? :-)
Not when you know why.
"The 6845 is intended for character based displays."Behold Tetris:
0MODE9:OFF:GCOL-9:CLG:REPEATs=s+VPOS:PRINTCHR$30s:REPEATSYS6,135TOi,p,d:PRINTTAB (p=0)CHR$9;:IFPOS=22VDU3100;VPOS,21;6667;:UNTIL0ELSEUNTILVPOS=25:v=ABSRNDMOD7:VD U31:COLOUR3:REPEATm=9-INKEY(INKEYTRUEOR6)MOD3:FORr=TRUETO1:t=rANDSGNt:IFt=rCOLOU Rv-15:VDUrEORm:i+=m=7AND9-6*r:IF0ELSEFORn=0TO11:d=nDIV3OR2EORd:VDUd:IF1
Oh please. It certainly ran fast, but no way was it as smooth as the arcade game. The sprites would move about 2 inches per frame; that's how Orlando got the speed. Play Galaga on XBLA and then try Zalaga on a Beeb emulator.
I remember taking a 'test' at school in 'Computer Studies' - we used to have Commodore PETs and BBC Micros. One of the questons was:
"If you walk up to a computer and turn it on, and type 'PRINT A' followed by return, what will you see on (A) A BBC Micro, and (B) A Commodore PET."To my mind, it was a really stupid question, but, being familiar with both computers, I answered (A) as 'No such variable' and (B) as '0'.
When it came time to pass your paper to you neighbour to have it marked, I was told this was wrong. Apparently the teacher thought the PET would also complain about 'No such variable'. I argued. The teacher insisted they were right, eventually saying in a smug 'teacher knows best' way, "Well, Tim, if you think you know best, why don't you try it now in front of the whole class?"
You can probably guess how that went :-).
What seemed stupid to me was that the question was so obviously phrased with the assumption that they would behave differently. I assumed the test must have been written by another teacher.
I was somewhat nervous, but it did feel good when the trusty PET choked up the answer '0'.
This was a maths teacher, btw.
I used to work at CC*, and pretty much all the coders there seemed to call it a Beeb.
(*If you need me to explain, my Appeal to False Authority has already failed)
And you don't notice the 1,777 emails piling up in your inbox until someone investigates your code and calls you out on it.
I agree with the others - you interested in buying a bridge?
Not at first, no.
It also assumes:
You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.
"Specify type of goatse."
Ubiquitous? I haven't seen a turbo button in years. I used to use them though - to turn off the turbo speed to debug redraw bugs under Windows 3.1 in an illustration package I was working on. It slowed down things enough so you could often see where it went wrong. And when I say it, I mean my code, of course.
It reminds me of when a fellow developer was trying to debug stuff, and couldn't see what was going wrong. Another developer said, "Ah, but what happens when you do this?", and pressed the turbo button. Or so he thought. The first developer, somewhat bemused to see the screen go blank and the BIOS screen appear, said slowly, "Well, it resets my PC. Duh."
Still makes me laugh :-)
My point was also that you deal with your bank in the matter of currency.
In Facebook, that currency is your personal info, and your eyeballs on adverts. It's like saying why can't you deal with your bank without them having to keep hold of your money, and earn interest on it, etc. It's what they do. It's how it works.
Facebook makes most of this reasonably obvious, but they're banking (ha!) on the average person not caring or reading what they're told.
I don't have much opinion on whether this is good or bad. It's obvious to me that a site like Facebook has to make what money it can from advertising or using/selling personal info, so I treat it as such. I guess it's not obvious to a lot of people, and they don't. I find it hard to get worked up about it. As many people have said, if you really don't want your personal info made public, don't put it on the internet.
Unfortunately, those applications are developed by people who want your personal information. There's very little chance of them allowing you to use the app without you giving them access to that info. It's what they want. It's why they're doing it. They just want to advertise to you, and targetted advertising is even better.
Have a look at the facebook dev boards. It's full of people asking how many users they can get, how to get more users, how they can get around the restrictions FB keep adding, moaning about those restrictions (What? I can't spam 500 friends when someone installs an app? Waaahh!), how much they will be able to charge someone else to buy their app when it has X number of users, blah blah.
They're not doing it to be nice. Private info and advertising is all they get out of it. It's not like Facebook hosts their apps for free, either.
If you gave the social networking site as much money as you do your bank, maybe you could.
Let me assure you, he's not above scrounging lifts in such cars. And then spending the journey lambasting the driver for the way they earns a living to support their family (writing proprietary software).
Sometimes you just have to go with the odds.
"Joey, we always know what you mean."