Hooves, not Hand(s)
Don't make me post my fanfiction.
Hooves, not Hand(s)
Don't make me post my fanfiction.
My dad was a Boeing engineer, and would always complain whe, for example, the outside shot used a 737, but the interiors were shot on a 727.
What I learned from that, is that noone outside of your clique gives a crap about those little nitpicks.
Yep, a 'Byte' is simply the smallest addressable unit of memory, if I recall correctly, there even was a system that could vary from 5-12 bits in a byte, depending on configuration options...
It would have been interesting if recent computers had moved to 32 bit bytes, as a bridge to 64 bit, there is little modern useful data that fits in 8 bits anyway, 32 bits for an RGBA color, 32 bits for a full unicode char, etc. you could store 4x as much data, while still using 32 bit addressing, which also means that pointers would be one 'byte' as well.
I would try contacting the game company.
Having a third party company block reviews of my game by claiming that they own the copyrights to it would have me calling my lawyer.
"Slander of Title" I think is the legal term.
@Sutherlands said:
@bgodot said:
@Sutherlands said:Yes, I've heard of it. Have you heard of UTF-8, UTF-16, or ISO 8859? Are you saying that the only modern useful character encoding is UTF-32? Oh, you are? Pity...@bgodot said:
there is little modern useful data that fits in 8 bits anyway, [. . .] 32 bits for a full unicode charWha... there is just so much wrong with this statement I don't know where to begin.Never heard of UTF-32?
It's the only fixed size encoding for Unicode. You might not store it on disk or send over the network in that form, but it's useful as a memory data structure to allow simple iteration through characters. And you could still pack 8 bit width data into 32 bit bytes, just use shifting and masking.
Note that in my origional post I said 32 bit bytes would have been interesting, not better. As in the proverb, "May you live in interesting times."
@Sutherlands said:
@bgodot said:
there is little modern useful data that fits in 8 bits anyway, [. . .] 32 bits for a full unicode charWha... there is just so much wrong with this statement I don't know where to begin.
Never heard of UTF-32?
"UTF-32 (or UCS-4) is a protocol to encode <font color="#0645ad">Unicode</font> characters that uses exactly 32 <font color="#0645ad">bits</font> per Unicode <font color="#0645ad">code point</font>. All other Unicode transformation formats use variable-length encodings. The UTF-32 form of a character is a direct representation of its codepoint."
<font size="3">edit: also, most modern CPU's want data structures to be aligned on 2^nth bounderys anyway. So a struct with, for example, 4 'chars' would take up 128 bits anyway.</font>
The name of Microsoft's new console is "XBOB"
They are adding animated and fully voiced 'assistants' to the dashboard, to offer suggestions and announce promotions (ads).
Hooves, not Hand(s)
Don't make me post my fanfiction.
The 19114 example was from client side scripting
If because they moved from 'Microsoft Points' to wanting to store your payment info; so they have to be more serure with 'Microsoft Accounts'
my old 'Hotmail Account' is tied to my phone and windows 8 machines, windows store developer licenses, XBOX Live, etc. etc.
"As with so many other things, if you tried Apple System Profiler from Mac OS 9 you'd understand. It's a level of enlightenment that cannot be taught, only acquired through experience. Sadly, the immense and irrational hatred tech folks felt towards classic Mac OS really hurt the industry, as people would shun all the wisdom on offer. I would never go back (one can grow tired of co-operative multitasking!), but what I gained from using it was worth all the pain and more."
I don't know how sarcastic you are being.
But Mac OS has the advantage of only running on one brand of hardware. Made by them.
They just need to know the model number, and the entire hardware configuration can be deduced.
Oh, and PCI to AGP bridges are a thing. you can have an AGP card in a PCI slot.
My favorite is that in the footer of all our sites says something like this:
© <%= DateTime.Now.Year.ToString() %>And I always wonder: does that actually do anything? I'm not sure it does...
(quote fuction dosn't work...)
Automating it invalidates it. Someone has to manually put in a fixed year number when they update for the copyright message to be valid.
Otherwise, someone just has to run it on a machine set to they year 1901, print the page, and claim 'The Copyright expired, since this website was made over 100 years ago."
Also, you end up with FireFox claiming your page was written in 19114. (script saying (19 + currentyear) gets interpreted as a string concatination...)
@anachostic said:
@Lorne Kates said:
Average cost of new gTLD: $150k.
If I had the means, I would create a TLD named .exe and watch the world burn.
I always wish I had registered command.com when the 'net was younger.
I once found a case of (anonymised from memory, not cut and paste from source...):
operator == (point a, point b){
return (a.x == b.x && a.y == b.y);
operator != (point a, point b)
{
return (a.x != b.x && a.y != b.y);
}
Note the second && which should be a ||
The inequality operator is kinda important for .net collection classes like dictionary keys. This caused duplicate keys to end up in a dictionary under stress testing... this was in a published SDK from 'a large company in redmond'.
I'm wondering if the Silk Road arrest + Somalia/Kenya raids is the US demostrating that the 'shutdown' dosn't make them weak/vulnerable.
Or, they were afraid of losing the targets they were tracking during an extended shutdown; so 'closed the workitem' by taking action.
An apps that lets you turn on/off the lights from your phone (or a central server)? those don't look like standard light switches, maybe they are networked...