DerekL

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by DerekL 13y ago
Yeah, I have one of those Epyx joysticks too. It's great.
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by DerekL 13y ago
Actually, Windows and Macintosh already do that, at least for image, audio and video files. You install a codec, and then all properly-written applications can read and write files in that format.
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by DerekL 13y ago
Yes, that's called Bertrand's postulate, first proven in 1850 by Chebyshev. For any integer n > 3, there's at least one prime strictly between n and 2n-2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand's_p
844.
by DerekL 13y ago
But ASCII null-terminated strings can't contain null either, so I don't know why he says that it's just a problem for UTF-8. Also, if you represent U+0000 by 0xC0 0x80, then it's "Modified UTF-8", and it's
845.
by DerekL 13y ago
1.6 is the 5-th root of 10 rounded off. But the 5-th power of the golden ratio is very close to 11, not 10, because 11 is the 5-th Lucas number and L_n = φ^n + (-1/φ)^n.
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by DerekL 13y ago
The only time I've heard about two mouse pointers at the same time is the Amiga version of the game Lemmings. It had a two-player mode with a split screen, and each player had a mouse which would control the cursor on his side of the s
847.
by DerekL 13y ago
I'd need to use a profiler to be sure, but the first thing I'd try is to replace the printf call for each pixel with an fwrite.
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by DerekL 13y ago
Apple Computer also got sued by Apple Corp whenever they tried to add music synthesis hardware to their computers.
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by DerekL 13y ago
It's not right. You should add one to the bound because "range" uses half-open intervals. Also, it only works in Python 3; in Python 2, it creates a list of a 1000000000 integers, so you should use "xrange" instead.
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by DerekL 13y ago
But if you swap batteries, then when you get to an outlet, you either need a special charger for the spare battery, or you need to swap batteries while charging.
851.
by DerekL 13y ago
Carbon applications still run on the Mac, they just can't run in 64-bit mode. But Starcraft 1 is a PowerPC app, so it does need Rosetta.
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by DerekL 13y ago
No, it's a GCC extension. That entire section is about non-standard GCC features.
853.
by DerekL 13y ago
You could also use an iCade or some other controller that uses the iCade protocol.
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by DerekL 13y ago
Does anyone know what legal basis the president could use to preempt state laws in this case?
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by DerekL 13y ago
Long ago, for many games, Activision would award an embroidered patch to any player who beat a certain score. Usually the player would photograph the screen and mail it to Activision.
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by DerekL 13y ago
So 88% of reexamined patents are modified or invalidated. But how does this lead to the conclusion that 88% of all patents would be modified or invalidated if they were reexamined? An ex parte reexamination requires a fee. People don't rand
857.
by DerekL 13y ago
The author is confused about the technology. The government didn't intercept GPS signals from the phone because that's not possible. Only the GPS satellites transmit signals, and the devices merely receive them. But the phone was transmitti
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by DerekL 13y ago
The behavior actually depends on the app. If the application can't figure out a good way to use both screens, then you get the gray texture on one screen.
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by DerekL 13y ago
Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5722532
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by DerekL 13y ago
Yeah, I don't see why subscribing to individual channels a la carte is necessarily more fair than bundling. Someone who watches 20 shows on 2 different channels should pay 1/10 than someone who watches 20 shows on 20 different channels? It'
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by DerekL 14y ago
No, that's not right. The tape always moves at a constant linear speed, so both reels will go at a faster angular speed as the amount of tape shrinks.
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by DerekL 14y ago
Here's how to do it: Hold down the apostrophe key until a menu pops up showing similar characters, then choose the backtick.
863.
by DerekL 14y ago
General Relativity?
864.
by DerekL 14y ago
I bet that the Mexican Coke is healthier, because you only get 12 fl. oz. instead of the 20 or 32 of domestic Coke you'd get for the same price.
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by DerekL 14y ago
Someone claims that the writer of 'Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl' had previously worked on a script for a Monkey Island movie. http://www.worldofmi.com/comments.php?type=news&id=1259&...
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by DerekL 14y ago
But those games were developed by Totally Games, not LucasArts.
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by DerekL 14y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by the 16-to-32 transition on the Mac. Are you referring to the 68k-to-PowerPC transition?
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by DerekL 14y ago
People often get the Monty Hall problem wrong because it is often stated ambiguously, and the listener fills in the details in his own way. Here's the question as posed in Marilyn Vos Savant's column [ http://marilynvossavant.com/game-show-
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by DerekL 14y ago
It's spelled "Lua", not "LUA". It's not an acronym.
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by DerekL 14y ago
Apple added basically the same functionality in iOS 6, but it seems like many apps don't support it yet.

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